dr.cynthia_pinto
@drcynthia_pinto
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Educational Psychologist. Academic tutor, UCL IOE. Committee member, BPS DECP. Trustee, Intermission Youth Theatre. @dr-cynthia-pinto.bsky.social.
London, England
Joined July 2011
Listen to Mark Rylance talking about Excluded https://t.co/F0jAcV8X9H
#DECP2026 is honoured to be joined by Youth Intermission Theatre performing Excluded ⭐️Youth Intermission Theatre supports young people in the youth justice system through creative performance,rehabilitation,collaboration&positive personal development #twittereps @InterTheatre
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Listened to Home Secretary speak on her asylum reforms & expressed my distress at impact on families with children facing years of uncertainty & insecurity. Children who’ve already often been traumatised in their lives will be hurt.I’ll not support inflicting further harm on them
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Intermission Youth Theatre @InterTheatre will be performing ‘Excluded’ at the DECP conference in January Everything you need to know about Intermission Youth Theatre https://t.co/o8hReIKhG9
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DECP CONFERENCE KEY NOTE SPEAKER Professor Diane Reay, Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, will discuss ‘An emotional landscape of dissatisfaction, fear and anxiety: the impact of growing class inequalities on the English educational system’ @DECPOfficial
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DECP Conference key note speaker s.a.c.gorard@durham.ac.uk Problems of unequal opportunity, treatment and outcomes exist in the English school system. Professor Gorard uses research evidence to consider how the system can be improved. @DECPOfficial
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📆You’ve got till 10th November to get your submissions in - there’s still time! https://t.co/rUBjfLkIry
bps.org.uk
Join us in Bath for the DECP Annual Conference 2026! Two days of exciting keynotes, presentations, and workshops.
💡Do you have EP practice, research, or theoretical frameworks you’d love to share? 💫Submissions for the DECP main conference & TEP conference have been extended by 1 week! 🙌It’s not too late to get your submissions in. See you there! https://t.co/rUBjfLkIry
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🎯DECP Chair Dr Helena Bunn calls for an urgent increase in children’s time for play. “It is vital to a child’s early development that they are given ample time to experiment, be creative and learn through play in a purposeful way” @BPSOfficial
https://t.co/M6jWxIaF9o
theguardian.com
Letters: Not enough time in primary schools is devoted to learning through play, writes Dr Helena Bunn. We should take a lesson from countries where formal education begins much later, thinks Michael...
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"Adolescence captured brilliantly that as a family you can be oblivious to the negative influences on social media." @VivianEdPsych,@DECPOfficialdiscussed issues around toxic masculinity & the impact of social media on teenagers & families on @bbc5live. https://t.co/aMS4mpg8fH
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Really looking forward to hearing from Stephen Gorard next Monday 20th October 7.00-9.00pm on addressing disadvantage in schools. Zoom link will be sent to FEPG members by email. Please see below for more details @deb_outhwaite @sarahyounie @teamsquarepeg @MarilynLeask
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Stop blaming migrants and tackle real problems, 100 charities tell UK Govt. Govt follows Reform agenda, failed to develop effective counter narrative. Migrants are vital part of economy, public services. Economic problems caused by wrong policy choices. https://t.co/RuF2ypoXC1
theguardian.com
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
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Rich kids are way more likely to grow up to be artists. And that's because capitalism doesn't give us all the freedom to reach our creative potentials. https://t.co/jU0LPBkpMB
jacobin.com
Rich kids are way more likely to grow up to be artists. And that's because capitalism doesn't give us all the freedom to reach our creative potentials.
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The NAO report on state-funded and largely private-provided residential care for at-risk and troubled children is chilling. Each placement costs an average of £318,400, almost NINE TIMES median household income, but “many children are not in a setting that meets their needs
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The Rest Is Money · Episode
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While we’re talking about politicians and tax, a reminder that Nigel Farage works for a company that exists to help rich people avoid tax.
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The DECP annual pre-training event is now open for booking! Join us to find out more about a career in educational psychology Programme and booking here: https://t.co/8ZvDHfhwL4
#psychology #education #educationalpsychology #PsychologyMatters
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Join us to explore the training route, hear about the diverse role of an educational psychologist, and get your questions answered by current trainees and experienced professionals
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Be clear on what Israel’s doing - they are silencing the eyewitnesses to genocide in Gaza. The doctors, the aid workers, the local journalists. While keeping foreign media out. None of this is random. It’s calculated, targeted, ruthless.
Mariam Dagga, our freelancer who was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, had bylined this powerful piece on malnourished children in Gaza just last week
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Too much silence and inaction. History books will tell of the complicit leaders who allowed this to happen time and time again. It CAN be stopped. “Israel bombed Gaza hospital a second time, killing rescuers”.
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At least 20 people, including five journalists, died as they rushed to help those wounded in the first strike
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Screenwriter Paul Laverty detained, and released, but charged under anti-terror laws today. Here is his statement on release: Plz share. Video by @CarreiraLaura
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‘My daughter Zoe is not a terrorist. Why has she spent a year in prison?’ The mother of jailed Palestine Action protester says she is proud of her and angry at the UK government. ✍️ @thejohnsimpson
https://t.co/GIsz9AQvb1
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Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says the two-child benefit limit should be scrapped to lift kids out of poverty Former Labour leader says it could be paid for by a tax on assets of the super-rich or extra levies on the top 1% https://t.co/7XoQsDW9UH
mirror.co.uk
In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said the Tories had left the country in a state that would 'make Charles Dickens furious' with 'intolerable' hardship
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