Claire Crowley

Especially interested in dance, diversity, inclusion, caring for our planet, equality and (summerborn) children. #BLM. Christian. All tweets my own. She/her.

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@SteveChalke Exactly.

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

If we sort out our provision for children’s special educational needs we will, at the same time, go a long way to tacking some of the biggest out of school safeguarding issues. Because children will be in school, engaged in education & forming positive & protective relationships!

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

More than 90% of children permanently excluded from primary school since the pandemic have Special Educational Needs. Combined with the cocktail of poverty, the cost-of-living crisis and the stripping out of resources from schools it has been devastating. It is time for change!!

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@bfghithergreen Thanks - what time?

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@bfghithergreen When is the Winter Fair taking place?

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@ChineMcDonald Well - look who borrowed it next! My Dictionary of Saints disappeared when I went overseas for a few years. I left it behind but it didn’t resurface like my other books. One of those little (sacred?!) mysteries!

[Chine McDonald @ChineMcDonald]

Woah.

[Rosemarie Mallett (@rosemarie.mallett.bsky.social) @RosemarieMallet]

This is Southwark, singing and dancing with joy in our diversity

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@ChineMcDonald I’m going to ask D to borrow this next! I have lost my Dictionary of Saints, I had a really beautiful edition for my confirmation and it’s gone walking somewhere….

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

Free childcare hours are expanded from today: unless you're an excluded single parent.

Single parentism thrives on policies like this: a disregarding of single parents existence and a disproportionate impact on those facing multiple discriminations & lower income households.

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

My 2yr old shouting “Maman c’est La fusée” ! (It’s a rocket!)
-at the graph of the country’s rising debt since Brexit and Covid. That’s Tory debt peeps, partly caused by all their PR spend to get people to associate @UKLabour with causing public debt!
“Décollage!!!!” (Take-off!)

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

Thank you for doing this for all our kids and children everywhere. Excellent work! Now respond @LloydsofLondon it is your turn to act and protect children. @vickyfoxcroft as my MP, can you help? @MartinSLewis can you help to highlight ethical insurers as alternatives?

[Mothers Rise Up 🌍 (inactive) @mothersriseup]

📣 🎥 LIVE FROM THE CITY OF LONDON!

Parents & kids join @MothersRiseUp classical dance protest, urging world's biggest fossil fuel insurer @LloydsofLondon to stop insuring new #fossilfuels.

Insurers must step up & protect children everywhere!

#InsureOurFutureNow #StopEACOP 🌍

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

I love this initiative, PB unis and PB councils, we need many other PB organisations taking this up!

[Plant-Based Universities @plantbasedunis]

🌏 WE’VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR PRINCE WILLIAM’S EARTHSHOT PRIZE 🚀

Plant-Based Universities are in with a chance of winning a £1 million environmental award!

1/3

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

Cleverly said by Olivia Coalmine

https://t.co/Fh7KLitD5w

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

11-year old: “Mum, I can’t work out who is good and bad in the Gaza war, I don’t understand it and everyone is dying.” #CeasefireForGazaNOW

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@ChineMcDonald @BBCr4today I caught it! Thx Chine, so helpful to reflect on our homes, both spiritual and brick, and all they mean to us and to others.

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@johnlewishelp And I’ve still heard nothing from @BekoUK

[Claire Crowley @ChuffyCrowley]

@johnlewishelp I have sent you private messages - have they been received? I urgently need this fridge freezer replaced as I’ve no way of storing food safely, and my existing food is now all spoiling

[Jules - Labeada® dance / SMBN CIC / Campaigner @SingleMumsBiz]

I find this argument so very heart-breaking, simply due to the fact that sanctions are being threatened before a solution is being offered. The barriers to childcare and flexible work are real. These barriers must be removed before those struggling to be in two places at once are punished. We are killing mothers. We are treating lives as disposable and behaving in a despicably inhumane way.

It is not okay. That is why I try and raise awareness of self-employment being one way to make work work and that is why I published 'Breaking out of Benefits Jail' last year. The DWP nearly finished me off and I can see how they are hurting so many people.

I paid tax for 20 years before becoming a single mum & needing benefits, purely due to childcare v full-time work barriers, in the genuine belief that I was trusting the Government to take a percentage of my money each month to ensure others did not suffer. I never expected to need it myself, as in my experience many sole parents do not. But when I did need it, it was hell.

Until we have a safe and affordable space for ALL children, 48 weeks per year, that is affordable, and accessible, and covers not only 30 hour work commitment but the time needed to commute, how can we punish mothers, or sometimes fathers, for needing to be there for their children.

I see steps in the right direction, but punishing and enforcing unrealistic expectations prematurely makes me feel sick to my core. I am so ashamed sometimes of how one human can see and treat another 💞

I applaud Ruth for her continued hard work on this. But it should not be down to her. My only advice, is work on your own business for 30 hours, but make sure it is viable and genuine, that is the only way until flexible, hybrid and asynchronous working is truly embraced.