Naomi Finch

Like so many, my six year old son is currently being totally failed in his mainstream setting where he experiences trauma linked to the gaping holes in provision he falls through (think repeat suspension and confinement when he’s dysregulated)

Just imagine what this money could do instead.

This is excellent news Connor! And a great subject.

I hope to follow up my involvement in this to further explore perinatal loneliness, and its impacts.

📣 I will be leading a new research project with Katharina Bader and Ivana LaValle

Effective Hybrid Work: Childcare, Work-Family life balance and Wellbeing.

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The problem with PDA that, unlike autism, it isn’t always recognised by professionals in the field let alone those in education. It is difficult to get a diagnosis of PDA.

Social Policy Association Family Policy Group Webinar: Joeli Brearley The Family Policy Group of the Social Policy Association is delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant Then Screwed

We are delighted to host Joeli Brearley, founder of Pregnant then Screwed. Please join us for this free webinar by signing up here:

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Government’s own analysis shows single women are the largest group to be hit by disability benefit cuts in the #SpringStatement
Read our immediate response 👇
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Book about Women and Welfare Conditionality: lived experiences of benefit sanctions, work and welfare by Sharon Wright

My Women and Welfare Conditionality book shows how hard it already was for disabled women to manage work and welfare before the new cuts. Research shows that poverty worsens health.

Horizontal bar charts showing cuts of at least £1.5bn (2025/26 prices) since 2010. The first three are changes in how benefit uprating. The remainder including changes to Universal Credit (including the introduction of the 2-child limit) and removing the Winter Fuel Payments from pensioners not in receipt of Pension Credit.

See jrf.org.uk/social-secur... for @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis from me looking at the c400 welfare changes (mostly cuts) scored the OBR since 2010. A £6bn cut containing a £5bn PIP cut is unprecedented - and I use that word advisedly.

Thankyou!

My usual question. Is this hybrid!?

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

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Training course: Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Research (online) This exciting interactive workshop will develop your knowledge and skills in using creative and participatory research methods. Creative and participatory methods are increasingly being utilised by s

I’m excited to share that me and Dr Laura Way will be running our popular @ncrm.ac.uk course again, ‘Building Constellations of Creative and Participatory Methods’. 31st March and 1st April online 10am-1pm.
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‘Recent years have seen the social security system attacked by funding cuts on one side and harmful rhetoric on the other, portraying it as a failure rather than a life-saving safety net…a strong social security system is the sign of a healthy society where everyone’s basic needs are met...’

It's more women than men who quit due to the additional burden they carry at home.
This is the cost of the ideal worker norm. We're losing incredible talent that can be transformational in achieving societal development. What do we gain?
Long hours work is largely performative yet harmful.

This discussion is more salient again.

I fully agree with this. I also perceive that self awareness is crucial for school readiness . Children benefit from being comfortable in their own bodies and being supported to unpick the “alerts” for sensations, needs and feelings. Some children will need far more help with this than others

The PM recognises that families can’t make ends meet but if change is to come it will require reinvestment in social security. That’s the way to improve living standards for children. Abolition of the two-child limit is the first action struggling families need from the govt.

Break Down Barriers to Opportunity Giving children the best start in life.

I really welcome a focus on pre-school childcare in addition to older school children, including SEN. Why, however, is impact for older children only measured by attainment? Shouldn't child wellbeing also be an important measure of success throughout a child's life?

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Well done Lego! These are brilliant.
Next step is hidden disability Barbie.

The Scottish government has made the right decision on the two-child limit, but Westminster must now step up and scrap it UK-wide. There can be no justification now for Westminster to drag its feet and continue to roll out poverty to more and more children through this policy.

Our new cost of a child calculations show that, for the first time since the research started in 2008, all family types on low and modest incomes are unable to meet their costs or reach what the public deems a minimum acceptable living standard.

This rings so true from anecdotal examples from parents especially the difference before and after diagnosis. There needs more training is needed to understand child behaviour - so not to blame the parent, or the child for that matter!

That's really positive - I hope they listened to you!

Burning injustices:

New figures published today show babies born in areas with the highest child poverty rates can expect to live 5 years fewer than those born in the areas with the lowest rates of child poverty.

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

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Schools given £740m to adapt buildings for Send pupils The money is the

Adapting buildings is one thing but all aspects of education needs change - the teacher training curriculum to improve awareness and understanding, greater flexibility in attitudes, the school day and curriculum, a wider range of qualifications and subjects etc. etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If Starmer announces a greater focus on household disposable incomes this Thu, that is a good thing and not a moment to soon.

This is the scale of the challenge: