Andy Graham

Principal Adviser #NewcastleCityCouncil Children & Families Strategy Unit. All views my own unless they’re interesting then they’re probably retweets

[Martin Barrow @MartinBarrow]

So farewell, National Citizen Service https://t.co/EyN2xSSyFd

[Local Government Association (LGA) @LGAcomms]

Over 600 child protection investigations are carried out by councils every day.

We call on the Chancellor to use the Autumn Budget to ensure councils are fully resourced to tackle the rising demand to support vulnerable children.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/pzHyA7BZIV

[Sophia Alexandra Hall @sophiassocials]

Do I know any care leavers / care experienced people #CEP in Newcastle? 👋

Specifically anyone who has made use of the free transport they have for care leavers in Newcastle/Gateshead and beyond? 🤔

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Hundreds of millions of pounds of profit are being extracted from children's homes by private equity and other owners. This week’s The Rest is Money podcast is a special episode on the disastrous deterioration of support for families in crisis and the escalating scandal of private-sector residential care for children removed from parents https://t.co/v7OBNbi14R

[Newcastle City Council @NewcastleCC]

Celebrating the end of Newcastle's Best Holiday Ever! 😎 Thanks to @NEStreetgames and partners for an unforgettable Summer Festival at Cochrane Park on Friday!🎉The Holiday Activity Fund ensures fun, food, and support for families, focussed on those eligible for free school meals

[Chris Hoyle @HoyleTime]

Fully funded with travel and accommodation. Nothing to stop you organising for some brilliant young people to go down and visit Oxford.

[Daniel Holland @danhollandnews]

I strongly urge you to stop what you’re doing and read this.

Well said @samuelevolpe and well done to everyone on Westgate Road tonight for showing the very best of the North East.

What an incredible antidote to the horror of the past week.

https://t.co/8ndRkXM1hO

[Andy Graham @AndyGraham3]

@NewcastleCC Great to see the fund back for 2024.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Here's what's happened in local govt since 2010. Huge cuts in most services, but increased spending on social care. Big increases in special needs statements, children in care, homeless families.

[Mark Rogers @MKMRogers]

@PJTheEconomist Always happy for @PJTheEconomist to put out this data.

Far less happy that, along with @LGAcomms, @Solace_UK, @1adass, @ADCStweets and many others, @TheIFS is still shouting into the wind after 14 years about the sustained and wilful disinvestment in crucial local services.

[The Chronicle @ChronicleLive]

A Newcastle secondary school is going green as part of a multi-million pound project
https://t.co/qk916g3Lj5

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'Kids don't vote so politicians don't care about this as a topic'

AO founder John Roberts told #BBCBreakfast more support is needed for children's services as the YMCA reveals the number of youth clubs in England has more than halved since 2011

https://t.co/1t1M6UBA60

[Andy Graham @AndyGraham3]

@NewcastleCC This is amazing and couldn’t have happened without the generosity of Newcastle residents, partners and businesses 👋 @TheatreRoyalNew @NorthumbriaUni @urbangreenncl @StagecoachNE @WardHadaway @NE1BID

[Newcastle City Council @NewcastleCC]

🎄 Staff and representatives from across the council, residents and partners have donated to the 'Best Christmas Ever’ gift collection to ensure over 650 of the city’s most vulnerable children and young people receive a present this Christmas.

Read more: https://t.co/o85Vn7UvBO

[Newcastle City Council @NewcastleCC]

🎄 Let's help Care Leavers to have the best Christmas Ever!

For those who feel able to this year, we are asking residents and businesses to buy items from the online Amazon Wishlist for Care Leavers 👉 https://t.co/m2EjZEtMe8

Thank you - Newcastle City Council

[The Chronicle @ChronicleLive]

Some fares will have 50% off as Tyne and Wear Metro announces new discounts for people under 22 https://t.co/PiASiYgTi0

[Adam Hawksbee @ahawksbee]

Today leaders in the North East are sitting down with @michaelgove to sign their devo deal. The full text came out just after Christmas, so you might have missed it.

Here's a🧵on the key bits of the deal text. This one has a bunch of interesting elements… (1/20)

[Andy Graham @AndyGraham3]

@benjitoon

[Children & Young People Now @cypnow]

John Lewis launches care leaver employment scheme https://t.co/zBTLDcqfRn

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Funding for local services increasingly unrelated to need. Council funding based on data up to 20 years old - and govt has again delayed reform. School, council and police funding has been cut much more for poorer and needier areas.

Not good enough

https://t.co/qzo5rsih2J