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Children's services overspend cut by over a million through early intervention Bolton Council has celebrated new early intervention schemes for reducing the budget spend in children’s services by over a million.

Bolton Council says new early intervention schemes have reduced spending in children’s services by over £1 million

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As a delegate from the hard north, can we swap Harrogate for Toxteth please?

*Speaking in a Geordie accent* Can we now all agree there’s ‘plastic northerners’ and then there’s ’true northerners’?

Oooh boy.

Hard agree. I think, in the not so distant future, we’ll see wealthy people paying to have human tutors for their kids, ‘real’ artwork in their homes and ‘real’ photography as prize trophies and indicators of taste. (Bit like the arts and craft movement against industrialisation in early 1900’s)

PLEASE Sign me up for being left behind in the joy of my craft.

I’m glad your dad could advocate for you, sorry that happened. I suppose I’ve been delightfully ignorant/ fortunate enough for my previous schools to be cool with pants (I left high-school in 2000)
I know my 12yo would be really upset if they took their choice away.

I can’t even comprehend this. I wore pants to school, I wore pants to my graduation(s), I wear pants to work, I even wear PJ bottoms for bed…

I thought the debate whether women and girls were allowed to wear trousers was sorted in the 1890’s?

How DARE people conflate being working class with being racist.
Ive not seen one rebuttal of this narrative.

White working class people stand shoulder to shoulder with our neighbours. Go read some books on where blackshirts were ran out, trade unionism or quite frankly any working class history.

Whaaaaaat?! I’ve seen this responsibility blend so much recently and constantly having to battle to say SD’ers aren’t ‘UCD squad leads’, as there shouldn’t be separate design and development teams.

Polar Loop | Screen-Free Wearable Health Band & Fitness Tracker | Polar UK Track sleep, recovery, and activity—without screens, distractions, or subscriptions. POLAR Loop is a wearable fitness band that helps you track and improve your well-being, fitness, and daily performa...

Just been looking at the privacy notes on all the apps- think a screeless Polar might be worth a punt. www.polar.com/uk-en/loop

What if it doesn’t? Like honestly at this point I’d pay decent money to have AI removed from everything I use.

Any suggestions on a privacy focused fitness trackers? mainly for heart rate and sleep tracking, rather than pace etc, I t can’t be linked to a Google account so that’s Fitbit out.

Solidarity to the parents of primary kids this craft heavy half term; world book day character outfit, Easter egg painting and bonnet making and finally Red Nose Day bake sales.
Be easier if they were allowed back down the mines or up a chimney eh?

These guys are so close… more empathy for AI than a zero hour contract or gig economy worker.

In the highlands with my favourite eejit. Yes Geordies really don’t wear coats even in the frozen north.

I’m aware the world is shit, and I should really be more concerned by horrific news- but give me 15 minutes a day of this each day to help equal it out.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Just remarkable examples of creativity and craftmanship. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but the details In brutalist buildings are just incredible.
No 2 shuttering imprints are the same, considered direct/ diffused lighting, wayfaring, internal architecture and material choices…. Ppphwaaar!

Just going to leave this here

My weird pattern spotting ability is both my design superpower and the reason I can spot wrong’ns a mile off.

I’m going to sack this ‘alleviating poverty’ malarkey off and focus on pasty temperatures. OBE in the post lads.

Our parent friends laughed when we said we wouldn’t have surveillance capitalism in the guise of elf on the shelf in our house.
Training kids that they are monitored for merit and reported back upon isn’t something we think should be considered normal.

I think this should be their next app feature. Which pasty is actually warm?
A temperature traffic light system for pasty aficionados, maybe even a whole new temperature scale (eg solidified beef to hotter than the sun cheese)

Unsung Britain: working harder, getting nowhere Mike Brewer explains how recent decades have squeezed the households who can least afford it

Working harder, getting nowhere?

@mikebrewerecon.bsky.social walks you through the experience of Unsung Britain, in our latest Substack ⤵️
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Post a banger thats not English
Got tons… youtu.be/r7oAAUsKssE

Felicity scully gone full fash. Good grief. Hope flat Eric stays in the right side of history. 🤞