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External affairs @kinshipcharity. Previously @Become1992. Children & families policy, education, social justice. Geordie and thrower of frisbees. Views my own.
Jan 12, 2022 18 tweets 7 min read
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Great to speak with @FelicityHannah earlier on @BBCRadio4 @Moneybox (alongside the fab @CWilson200 and others) about financial support for young adults leaving care.

You can listen back here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Inevitably there's never enough time to cover everything on a topic in under 30 minutes, so a few important points I may or may not have had the time to cover on the air below...
Jan 10, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
After a fab 3+ years with @Become1992, sad to say that this week will be my last week!

I've learned absolutely loads in my time here and owe a huge amount of gratitude to everyone who's shared their knowledge, time and support.💜 Very excited to be starting a new external affairs role with the brilliant @kinshipcharity on Monday next week.

Particularly glad to be staying in the children and families policy space and continue campaigning alongside many familiar faces when I'm there!
Nov 18, 2021 23 tweets 8 min read
Thread time again. 🧵

New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection. I haven’t been on Twitter much recently, but folks seemed to find this helpful last year so…

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic… The big message: there was a pandemic and turns out it had a significant impact on national trends in children’s social care.

Almost everything for the year ending 31 March 2021 needs a ‘Covid lens’ so we don’t draw too many year-on-year conclusions which won’t be maintained.
Dec 10, 2020 15 tweets 5 min read
Thread time. 🧵

1/ New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection.

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…

You'll notice the new EES dashboard which makes exploring them at a glance much easier!

I wanted to share a few key things... 2/ As expected, there's been an increase in the number of children in care, up by 2% from 2019 to 80,080.

That's a little lower than the estimate (81,700) made in @ADCStweets's recent interim report: adcs.org.uk/safeguarding/a… Image