Ruby Blower (she/her)

Renew and improve • Resolution Foundation This briefing note, part of the Safety Nets project, assesses how the Household Support Fund could be improved in a longer-term settlement, through analysis of administrative data and interviews with ...

Our new report on the Household Support Fund, part of the @safety-nets.bsky.social‬ project, is out today. It draws on analysis of HSF admin data and interviews with LAs and @changingrealities.bsky.social‬ participants to identify how the HSF can be improved in a long-term settlement /Thread

Living Assessments was one of the first projects I worked on at NCB and I’ve always been in awe of the academic’s ability to make complex research accessible and their commitment to meaningful engage experts by experience right from the start. Really excited to celebrate the project today 🌟

A podcast that exposes the true horror of housing in the UK that everyone should listen to.

No problem! And yes absolutely - although I can't take the credit it is down to our incredible Participation Team 😍

Working with colleagues at the End Child Poverty Coalition, we have developed eight tests to judge the gov's child poverty strategy that will set us down a pathway towards eradication. All the steps are there, we just need the bold action to make it a reality. @ncb.org.uk

Our Young Research Advisers have created animations to demonstrate research findings: www.ncb.org.uk/what-we-do/i...

Also at our annual Youth Voice Matters Conference young delegates used mixed media to create their own manifesto: councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/what-we-do-0...

Thanks Freya!

This is a great starter pack Awil thanks! Could I please be added?

Hi Freya, great starter pack! Can I please be added?

More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

More unacceptable news… 1 in 3 children now facing destitution in the UK. The picture can’t get any clearer, the gov’s child poverty strategy must set an ambitious pathway to eradication.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Maybe Threads is like the non-meteor earth conditions which weakened the dinosaurs so that they would be made extinct by the meteor. Although it's not working as a Twitter replacement. It's cyphoning off enough eyeballs and life and revenue that a BlueSky shock could sink it, or sink it faster.

After 48hrs on bsky I can confirm the result to be bsky>threads...sorry meta

We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Threads or bsky?

Twitter is dead. Long live Blue Sky. The exodus is real.

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

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