Speaking with TRT World at 1pm about the escalating tensions between the Iranian regime and Israel.

Good afternoon.

Online conference hosted by Moses Farrow looks at how to stop the deaths of fostered and adopted Children

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Australia’s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s

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Iranian University Threatens Female Students Over Graduation Dance Video

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A Russian attack on a Ukrainian village kills a 14-year-old girl and two others, officials say ctvnews.ca/world/a-russia…

After Pouria Zeraati Stabbing, More ايران اينترنشنال Journalists Are At Risk in UK, Channel Says
Negin Shiraghaei, the founder of Azadi Network was one of the first journalists in the UK to speak publicly about threats being made against reporters.
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Alberta seeks intervener status in Saskatchewan court case over controversial pronoun policy

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Arizona is to ban nearly all abortions after its supreme court ruled a law from the Civil War-era could be enforced

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The Arizona Supreme Court ruling allows an 1864 abortion ban to go into effect. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, and it threatens doctors and nurses with prison time.

It does not have to be this way. Congress must restore the protections of Roe.

Haven’t read the Cass Review yet but important to say that many child welfare interventions in the UK lack an evidence base.

That doesn’t mean services are not needed, it means professional support is lacking.

Another example of how we ignore children in law and policy.

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Hilary Cass: Weak evidence letting down children in gender care bbc.in/3TUTADv

Today’s Sure Start evaluation results will be widely interpreted as “sure start worked” but there were two important findings that add some nuance to that.
First, as intended, it worked most for the most disadvantaged kids. 1/2

Assaulting a shopworker is to be made a separate criminal offence after a government U-turn following pressure from campaigners.

Laura Farris MP tells Kay Burley the amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill 'will protect shopworkers'

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Five members of a benefit fraud gang who falsely claimed £50m in Universal Credit have been brought down in the largest prosecution of its type in English legal history

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Children’s privacy online: Information Commissioner’s Office publishes priorities for the year ahead.

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Children starve in Yemen as country suffers consequences of war and rising costs

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'May' is the key word here. We already know from research that some children do genuinely need to transition.