Working with kids you realise how normalised violence has become, how casual it is to carry weapons. It shows the lack of priority when it comes to youth support/prevention work. Communities are suffering, kid are suffering and then things like this are happening more and more‼️
BREAKING: Five children, a boy and a girl, both 14, and one boy and two girls, 12, have been arrested over the murder of an 80-year-old man in a park in Leicestershire.
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Lady with wavy hair, "I'm sat here and I'm baffled that you (Andrew Mitchell) can talk about serious youth violence as if your party is not directly responsible for services being stripped to their bones"
"Grassroots organisations are on their knees. They're supporting vulnerable young people"
"Until you acknowledge that we need proper intervention into early intervention services, police need a working definition of child criminal exploitation, young people need to be treated as the victims that they are; not further criminalised, further harmed and pushed to the edges of society"
"At best your party has been incompetent. At worst you have been negligent"
"You are directly responsible for the increase in youth violence, loss of life and liberty, that we are seeing in our communities"
I really don’t give a toss if someone can’t afford private school fees + 20%. There are parents who can’t afford to buy their children shoes. Let’s focus on them. #BattleForNumber10
The Government has chosen to waste another opportunity to save lives today. Local suicide prevention funding hasn’t been renewed like we hoped it would, meaning funding that so many communities in England depend on will completely run out at the end of this month #Budget2024🧵
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‘We want this to be a stress free time’ says the consultants/midwives whilst telling me 4 different things, making me worry something is wrong and making me wait 4 hours for someone to hand me a 9 page leaflet that doesn’t even apply to me and answers nothing 🤦🏽♀️
In 2021/22, NSPCC investigated 8389 calls of neglect, 6441 cases of physical abuse and 4418 case of emotional abuse. Approx 77% of these were in home settings by parents claiming to “love their child the most”.
The 3rd principle is that parents should be included in all decisions relating to a child's requests to socially transition.
No one loves children more than their parents and it is wrong to exclude parents from what can be a pathway to irreversible medical decisions (4/6)
We are failing our most vulnerable kids. We are working within the confines of two broken systems that are no longer fit for purpose. Social care is no longer the voice of the child and mental health is no longer an option due to no money and no time. Im broken working in it.