Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her)

🇵🇭🇬🇧 • PhD’ing @DurhamSociology @DtpNine De/Anti-colonial, Transformation of child welfare, Indigenous rights • Land Back! • RA w Contextual Safeguarding •

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

For #WSWD2021 I wrote a short piece reflecting on what #DecolonisingSocialCare can mean. Situating our current system within the wider backdrop of colonial legacies, I invite critical reflexivity & an energy towards intersectional and collective solidarity https://t.co/fVVYFeiUB7

[Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin]

Formal complaint submitted to @EssexPoliceUK . Feel free to onward share. We await our response. In solidarity with all the parents who have asked for this image to be removed without any response. The whole thing is an utter outrage.

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

was asked “where are you frommm” a couple of days ago on the tube. just one of a whole lifetime of “but where are you -really- from”’s - really gets to your sense of belonging in your own country of birth. #Empire 🇬🇧

[Michael Morgan @mikecmorgan]

Riz Ahmed nails it…“where are you really from?”

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@J_Schoeneberg @sumingkhoo @SebaGarbe @chrismillora @Idahosa_Eseosa Oooh very interested, love the quilt idea! have been thinking of you all, would be great to collaborate again!

[Roxy Legane @RoxyLegane]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Another reading ask 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Today, another NY Times piece, and an emotional one for all of us close to this case.

Selam sat through the Mcr 10 trial, this is a beautiful tribute to Ade, and a necessary challenge to what happened in that court room. https://t.co/0uGhMa6Cmi

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@Laurie_Eli @upendmovement 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️. What a coincidence as well as a week ago I ordered Torn Apart!

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

Podcast: https://t.co/dthlzyxztp

More resources on the Scale Up Toolkit ➡️ https://t.co/inrKUieyq4

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

📢 Podcast alert 📢 This was such a lovely & inspiring conversation with @Kent_Practice and Headteacher about doing a #SchoolAssessment - espec. the trust and rships involved in creating safety in a school context #ContextualSafeguarding 💫

[Kent_Practice🌟 @Kent_Practice]

Spoke @ CS SE Regional Forum about schools assessments ~ proud to be a small part of CS in school development - here's a podcast where me & a Head T ruminate about the process @vbradburydev Thanks @carlenefirmin @jennyalloyd

https://t.co/4HaPcMmWTv

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@RutterNik Yessss go Nikki!!! You’ve got this 🤩

[Prof. Carlene Firmin @carlenefirmin]

In 2019 we began work with 5 areas to test #ContextualSafeguarding. In 2020 4 more joined our #ScaleUp project

Today we launch a toolkit to turn what we learnt into 150+ resources & support future take-up

I am floored by what's been produced

Pls RT
https://t.co/9AJlVKgEet

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@JillDamatac Wow the #aesthetic 😍

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@Geetanj51336779 Wowwww!!! Amazing!!! Well deserved Prof 🤩💛

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

Hey @ukhomeoffice #GuessMyAge guess our ages. How will the Home Office ensure that there is no risk of children being sent to Rwanda because Home Office officials have decided they look ‘significantly over 18’?

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@carlenefirmin Wowwww!!! Radiant and beautiful!

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@kezabyombi 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 amazing! cannot wait to read this when/if you publish!!

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

“Her Platinum Jubilee is a call to a collective misremembering of her imperial past and the violence and misery the state she heads and represents has wrought in the world.” https://t.co/FRKBlj2uQE

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

Oh I sit and do chores/chill in this position all the time?? It’s athletic?? Lol

[Alex Bernier @mythoughtfood]

Bodies fall apart when they lack the strength and mobility to hold a Deep Squat.

Your compromised frame attracts pain and injury.

I’ve met too many adults over the years who failed to hold the position.

Practice your Deep Squat to spare yourself from future torments.

[Roxy Legane @RoxyLegane]

VERDICT DAY.

After 3 months of tweeting updates, I’ve no plan for this thread as I have others. More will come from @KidsOfColourHQ, I guess I need to out grief here.

All 10 were found guilty. As soon as the word ‘gang’ entered that court, that was it. I’m mad that I had hope.

[Kids Of Colour @KidsOfColourHQ]

💫 Financial Support 💫

We’d like to offer some financial support to the boys post-verdict, and show them that people want to contribute to their care. We ask that those who might like to donate read THIS thread first.

(The quoted thread is about the case, for those unaware).

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

@janelle_rabe 💛🥺

[Vanessa Bradbury-Leather (she/her) @vbradburydev]

📌 our new article! While the intention of #zerotolerance is well-meaning – ofc we don’t want to tolerate #sexualharm in #schools – in practice research findings highlight several conseqs to punitive and sanctions-based responses in schools. read here 👇🏽