Wakefield Looking forward to this with George tomorrow #WordFest OurYear2024 . George will be reading from the #Nibbies nominated This is Me!, talking Strictly, parkrun, acting, dancing, all things CBeebies and inclusion. Also reading Why Not? So why not come down 👇🏾👇🏽👇🏼👇🏻👇🏿

Every so-called specialist organisation supporting women victim-survivors of sexual and domestic violence and abuse, and sexual exploitation, that has sat on the fence or not used their voice to support women-only services, should be having a word with themselves this morning.

I wrote Defending Women’s Spaces about why the needs of women victim-survivors of sexual and domestic violence and abuse are best met in women-only spaces.
Incidentally Mridul Wadhwa gets a mention on the opening page. (And several times thereafter.)
Thank you, Roz Adams.
#ERCC

I have been waiting for this moment for many years, now we finally get the chance to get the message out there that children in care are still children. A general election will see a change in government and we (Terry Galloway) and I and many more have made it very clear that a

Pleases book your appointment a smear test saved my life trust me it’s not pleasant but the treatment and interventions are in a different league and the early detection saved me from so much worse for all those people you love do it 💕💙💕💙

Please share our new Shelter film. So a new generation regain the right to a safe home.
#MadeInSocialHousing

SENTENCED: Sahil Sharma, 24, must serve at least 15 years for the murder of his wife, Mehak Sharma, 19. Mehak dead of a stab wound to her neck at her home in Croydon on 29 October 2023.

This case disgusts me so much.
3 Black women subjected to racial abuse and assault as they went home.
They report the attack and instead of being supported and their attacker held to account, they are charged as perpetrators.
Then their attacker and the off duty police offer who

#StopTheRacistCharges #TheKingsCross3 #IStandWithSelmaTaha #SelmaIBelieveYou

SO PROUD OF YOU my lovely friend Alison Lowe OBE. Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, you got our vote. X

Congratulations to my dear friend SadiqKhan on his unprecedented reelection as Mayor of London for 3rd time in the face of a vicious campaign fuelled by bigotry & misinformation

A number of people threatened to leave the country if he was re-elected - Goodbye

#LondonMayor

Rob Webster 💙 West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership What a fantastic result for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor. We are all ecstatic 🤩

Syria: 13 years of conflict has left 8 million women & girls in dire need.

UNFPA has been on the ground throughout the crisis to ensure vulnerable women & girls can access sexual & reproductive health care —but says more support is needed. unf.pa/syria

Every Child Leaving Care Matters #ECLCM ECLCM eclcm.org

Calling feminists in London!

I can't be at Highbury Magistrates Court this Friday to support my friend and sister-in-the-fight-against-patriarchy @selmataha8 and her friends who have been subjected to outrageous charges after they suffered a racist attack.

Can you be there

A quick reminder. Children in care do not have the same opportunities as their peers. The majority of young people in our system face a lifetime of misery because of social neglect. This is their reality. #changeiscoming

Rob Webster 💙 So that’s who’s been cutting you hair…

Honour-based’ abuse in England increases 60% in two years

Data from 26 out of 39 constabularies approached showed that there were 2,594 cases of “honour-based” abuse – which includes forced marriage, rape, death threats and assault – in 2022.

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'🌱 Calling all green thumbs & community supporters! Our youth-led plant-to-plate project needs your help! Have any spare gardening tools or equipment? If you could donate them to us & we can grow together! #EmpoweringYouth #CommunitySupport #southyorkshire 🌟'