Here’s an exhortation to anyone who works with children & young ppl - or with adults who may be care experienced - to read this book, Free Loaves on Fridays, edited by Rebekah Pierre Rebekah Pierre Paediatricians go get a copy and read it!

Such an inclusive book that has included the voices of so many children and adults who grew up in care. We as a society and as professionals need to do better for these young people.

And as a children’s doctor who works to be child centred, I have found in this book some ideas for improvements I can make in my approach to children in need or in care, their parents, and parents who are care experienced themselves.

theguardian.com/society/articl… Good article & great work from Article 39 Deborah Coles & others

Ofsted has published new data showing how children's homes have become a huge, money-spinning business. If you are squeamish about these things, look away now. 🧵

🎩 firmly tipped to every single young person receiving results today. Along with next years’ 11s your entry to senior school was massively disrupted and you have lived inside chronic disaster ever since. To even get to this day is a massive achievement

Delighted to announce that I am featured at Berwick Literary Festival on Sunday 13th October alongside Nicola Lewis and Rebekah Pierre to discuss Free Loaves On Fridays! View the full programme and buy tickets: berwickliteraryfestival.com/2024-festival/

Please share. The HACKNEY Xmas Dinner team have been meeting for the past month to put on an Xmas dinner for care leavers on Christmas Day. Here is the How To Guide. shorturl.at/4DhIe We meet in Hackney. Can you join us? Hackney Xmas Dinner #Hackney

Article 39 is delighted to be a core participant for Module 8 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, devoted to children and young people. First preliminary hearing in London today. article39.org.uk/2024/09/06/cov…

Had to give this a double take. Expecting penniless and traumatised 16/17 year olds to pay for the cost of being in care is heartless and, to be honest, pathetic. How about local authorities start asking those on six figure salaries to contribute instead?

❗️NEW resource for children aged 16 and 17 who are without a home and parental care: article39.org.uk/2024/09/09/new…

Lovely to see our access to child care files video guide out there. It features the thoughts of Sam, Toya and myself, who have all accessed our files. It draws on our experiences and on the CLA's many years of helping fellow care leavers access their files.

🚨 Introducing my Media Toolkit for Journalists and Care Experienced People!! #CEP The toolkit is free & easy to access. You can find it on The Churchill Fellowship’s website, and excitingly, already in the hands of some of the nation's biggest newsrooms. 🙌 (1/3) churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/…

Labour MP, chair of the Care Review, and founder of Frontline, Josh MacAlister, quoted here on voting to cut winter fuel allowance. Blaming Conservative government he collaborated closely with and won major contracts from for over a decade. Full article: newsandstar.co.uk/news/24579827.…

Immensely proud that one of our Free Loaves on Fridays authors will be reading his powerful letter on kinship care at the @uklabour conference. If you haven't got your copy yet, you can do so here: unbound.com/books/free-loa… Proceeds to Article 39 & Together Trust Unbound