๐ด 1 in 10 teenage girls are unable to afford sanitary products. I am proud that @BrumLabour have passed a motion committing to ending period poverty.
However, this is just the beginning.
Great to be at the @IMPublicLaw team annual training day in Sheffield, hearing about how fantastic colleagues are using the law to achieve social justice with work in judicial review, health and social care, education, actions against the state, inquests and Court of Protection.
#TuesdayThoughts Have you ever thought what life is like for older people with dementia, or a visual impairment or a physical disability? Adult Day Centres provide care & activities for us & we are fighting to keep our day centre open. Please help us! https://t.co/V6tZTfv7kH
#charitytuesday We are in the midst of a legal battle to save our vital & beloved Fairway Day Centre. Please consider giving a small contribution to our legal fees. Every penny counts. THANK YOU! https://t.co/V6tZTfv7kH
#GivingTuesday We are in the midst of a legal battle to save our vital & beloved Fairway Day Centre. Please consider giving a small contribution to our legal fees. Every penny counts. THANK YOU! https://t.co/V6tZTfv7kH
#CyberMonday Fairway Day Centre and their great staff helped give me access to computing and allowed me to share my voice with the world. Please do not let them take this away community from us. Help us to Save Fairway Day Centre https://t.co/nVTA7VlkgT
#BrumHour#MondayMotivation We are desperately fighting to keep our beloved Adult Day Centre open. Please help us to continue our legal fight to Save Fairway Day Centre. https://t.co/nVTA7VlkgT
#BrumHour Birmingham needs its Adult Day Care Centres. Older people with #dementia, or a visual impairment or a physical impairment need to be able to leave their home and be part of a community. #SaveFairwayDayCentre https://t.co/nVTA7VlkgT
#MondayMotivation Birmingham needs its Adult Day Care Centres. Older people with #dementia, or a visual impairment or a physical impairment need to be able to leave their home and be part of a community. #SaveFairwayDayCentre https://t.co/nVTA7VlkgT
#MondayMotivation We want to find partners to help us amplify the voices in @DementiaTweets#DementiaDiaries in new & creative ways - thro' theatre, music, art, poetry, media, training? Got a Bright Idea? Email it (max 200 words) to [email protected] https://t.co/1LtGpn0kt4
We urgently need your help to save the closure of Fairway Day Centre and many other Council run Adult Day Centres. A small contribution of ยฃ5 will help towards our legal case. https://t.co/V6tZTfv7kH If you can't contribute then please RETWEET @jeremycorbyn @RichardBurdenMP
This is so pertinent to our situation. We are struggling to raise monies to cope with the cost of Legal Aid and have been forced to try to crowd source funds. https://t.co/V6tZTfv7kH
The report on the UK by @Alston_UNSR, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, is rightly critical of cuts to #legalaid.
Professor Alston also concluded that government austerity policies have inflicted โgreat miseryโ.
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