Cath Larkins
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Professor, for & with children & young people facing discrimination. Director The Centre for Children & Young People's Participation @UCLan. Views are my own
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http://www.uclan.ac.uk/cypp 10-08-2012 13:54:14
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Good to speak with Anna Fazackerley for this important piece The Observer today showing how vulnerable teenagers are being abandoned in a system that is in desperate need of reform. Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils.
About the European Youth Summit I-YES G 1000 - 'The discrimination against the Roma community across Europe is a topic that needs to be addressed, from classroom discussions with students in the remotest villages to the highest levels of European institutions!' - Alex #REFRomania
Reaching In partners met Katarina Ivanković Knežević Social Rights Director EU Social 🇪🇺 & Marie-Cécile Rouillon #childrights Coordinator EU Justice
to discuss how to involve vulnerable children (migrant, in care & Roma) in #ChildParticipation processes & #ChildGuarantee
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In CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering journal podcast, Cath Larkins from UCLan Social Work and Jennifer Simpson from Nottingham Trent University explore the changing digital landscape for looked after children and how access to technologies has given them a voice.
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In the UK in 2022 around a million children experienced destitution.
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Great opinion piece here by Ben Smoke in The Guardian illustrating why David TC Davies MP 🏴🇬🇧 leaflet has the impact it does theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Which other group would you do this to-and get away with it? Clear breach of Equality Act; dog whistle actions intended to create hostile environment for Gypsies & Travellers - your targeted leaflet David TC Davies MP 🏴🇬🇧 reported to the EHRC EHRCwales Welsh Conservatives 🏴 Standards Committee