Trending today - #ReclaimSocial is a movement to spread positive messages across social media. Please share these tips on How to support a bereaved child.
1 in 29 school-aged children has been bereaved of a parent or sibling, that's one child in every class.
Andrew Pollard nails it again: The UK's NHS has transformed healthcare by training clinical research leaders, but they must have protected time to deliver. This cannot be achieved while doctors and nurses are drowning in a chronically understaffed system. https://t.co/CrPyn3JRro
Three agents announced for The Writers' Conference 2023 (& more to come)!
Book your #WEMCONF23 tickets before 12 pm 9th February & you can apply for the chance to meet 1-1 with leading agents @AbiRFellows, @oliagent & Guy Rose.
More info & tickets here👇
https://t.co/7CtLLNXAVh
I end this piece with a list of 60 black British women novelists writing across genres, many of them debuts & the majority are not well-known. Look them up and see if they're for you, your reading group, your friends, different gens of your family. #Vogue https://t.co/bMRYDek8jL
This is such an honest, emotional & powerful account of being diagnosed with #Epilepsy & how family, friends, school & health services all need to support both physical & #mentalhealth. Thanks to @Epilepsy_12 Youth Advocates for sharing this with @MedsForChildren#PurpleDay
Don't forget to give @PLR_UK some love (& make sure you're registered with them too) for paying you for library loans. They are government-funded so we're always campaigning for this fund to be increased 📚 People often get us confused but we can't take credit for all they do!
Tickets are now on sale for the Bournemouth Writing Festival: more than 60 events and activities, from over 70 writing professionals, to get you writing. https://t.co/JPXcLoxfce
A Happy @ALCS_UK day to all our members and those of you thinking of joining. Beyond important that we can support current writers and the next generation following in your footsteps. Creativity and authorship need to be funded and your rights matter.
Happy @ALCS_UK Day fellow freelance writers!!
Great to know that not only are people reading my words, they're photocopying them too! Big thanks to all those working away to secure our secondary rights fees & writers, if you're not signed up, make it top of today's to do list!
Authors, illustrators and other creators must be able to earn a living from their work, and it's good to see the government acknowledge the importance of the creative industries to the economy. ALCS' work is central to this endeavour.
#Budget2023
Not everything we wanted for writers but some encouraging steps for the wider sector that we hope filter down:
📽️ Increased tax relief rate for film & TV productions
🤡 Support for the children’s TV & animation sector, with higher relief
https://t.co/M0pAL1Bz6x
We're working with @NSPCC to launch a Youth Bank project that aims to put decision-making powers in the hands of young people in Liverpool, by helping them have a say in how money is spent in the city 🗣️💬 Register your interest here ➡️ https://t.co/0BDGo9G5pP @TheForumAH
We're deeply saddened by the death of Janet Anderson. As a former Chair of the @APPGWriters and long time consultant and friend to ALCS, the support she showed for writers will always be remembered by us. Our thoughts are with Jim and all her family 🤍 She will be greatly missed
We would like to wish all of our children and young people, families, colleagues, volunteers and followers a very Happy New Year! 🎉📆 May 2023 bring prosperity, joy, inspiration and hope 🙌
#HappyNewYear#NewYear
“Writing in itself cannot sustain an income that is consistent with a minimum wage”
The past 15 years have seen a sustained fall in professional writers’ income from writing; this decline of around 60% has pushed median earnings down to minimum wage levels
There are a number of winter viruses circulating at the moment.
If your child is feeling unwell @AlderHey has an online symptom checker, which will give you advice on whether you can treat symptoms at home or need to seek treatment.
▶️https://t.co/yiZqa6Bzgu
Alder Hey's Developmental Paediatrics Team have launched a new online referral platform 💻 This new platform allows professionals to refer to us and allows parents/carers to track the progress of their child's referrals. See more here ⬇️
https://t.co/SEj9BAWxSm
Such a privilege to be taking on this role @ALCS_UK , following the important work done by @tbradman and the amazing team led by @B_Hayes_ALCS . We do so much for authors, more still to do and lots of opportunities.
We're excited to announce Jo Revill as our new Chair ✨ As the author of two books & a former journalist, Jo brings strong knowledge to the role of the needs of writers & the pressures they face. @8jorev will succeed @tbradman on 1 Jan.
More about Jo: https://t.co/HuuWKYCrMk
We're wishing all of our followers a very Happy Halloween! 👻 We love this spooktacular effort from our wonderful Riziah, who has carved her pumpkin into Oli, our @AlderHeyCharity mascot! 🎃 #HappyHalloween#Halloween#TrickOrTreat
One year on from the publication of our 'Working for Change’ report, we hold ourselves accountable and report against the actions that we committed to implement.
Read our full report: https://t.co/qZcdO6N1Th