Holistic Health Visitor
@holistichv.bsky.social
🇬🇧Holistic, inclusive, trauma-informed, neurodivergent experience and inequalities aware, paediatric Nurse, Health Visitor &researcher (with lived experience of ADHD, hEDS,CRPS & SEND parenting).
Think KPI (not ✅ box)- Keeping People Included!
Views my own.
Think KPI (not ✅ box)- Keeping People Included!
Views my own.
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Having an undiagnosed neurodivergent child feels like you’re surrounded by people telling you to puppy train a kitten! At 1st you don’t realise but the dog strategies leave your cat feeling scared (& put you at risk of being scratched!) You try to explain why the puppy strategies aren’t working 1/2
Early intervention is key! Today, September 11th, is apt to explain my thoughts; it’s like planes have crashed into the metaphorical Towers of the SEND and mental health systems. All the services are rushing up to the top- they’re passing casualties… 1/2
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September 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Early intervention is key! Today, September 11th, is apt to explain my thoughts; it’s like planes have crashed into the metaphorical Towers of the SEND and mental health systems. All the services are rushing up to the top- they’re passing casualties… 1/2
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THIS is what leadership in public life and press looks like
Anything less is quite frankly a disgrace
Anything less is quite frankly a disgrace
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'Deep concern' over rhetoric against refugees
'Deep concern' over rhetoric against refugees
August 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
THIS is what leadership in public life and press looks like
Anything less is quite frankly a disgrace
Anything less is quite frankly a disgrace
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🆕In a new blog on the hub today, our Associate Director @safetynurse999.bsky.social talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Patient barcode scanning in NHS hospitals: safety, snags and workarounds. A nurse’s perspective
Claire Cox, Patient Safety Learning’s Associate Director, talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare
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August 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🆕In a new blog on the hub today, our Associate Director @safetynurse999.bsky.social talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
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✨ What Are Glimmers? ✨
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us.
🌱 Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an often overwhelming world. 💫
Find out more: autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us.
🌱 Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an often overwhelming world. 💫
Find out more: autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...
Glimmers: Autistic Joy and Monotropism | Autistic Realms
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us. Learn how monotropism & flow create s ...
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July 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
✨ What Are Glimmers? ✨
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us.
🌱 Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an often overwhelming world. 💫
Find out more: autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...
Glimmers are small, powerful moments of Autistic joy that emerge when we’re deeply immersed in what matters to us.
🌱 Discover how monotropism & flow create space for joy in an often overwhelming world. 💫
Find out more: autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...
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#Oliverscampaign
A dying mother called 999 pleading for help, yet no ambulance came. Her body went unnoticed for months, alongside her dead disabled daughter, who had been left alone and helpless.
This is what happens when our systems fail the most vulnerable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A dying mother called 999 pleading for help, yet no ambulance came. Her body went unnoticed for months, alongside her dead disabled daughter, who had been left alone and helpless.
This is what happens when our systems fail the most vulnerable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mum and daughter found dead at home months after 999 plea
Alphonsine Djiako Leuga and her daughter were found three months after the call, an inquest hears.
www.bbc.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#Oliverscampaign
A dying mother called 999 pleading for help, yet no ambulance came. Her body went unnoticed for months, alongside her dead disabled daughter, who had been left alone and helpless.
This is what happens when our systems fail the most vulnerable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A dying mother called 999 pleading for help, yet no ambulance came. Her body went unnoticed for months, alongside her dead disabled daughter, who had been left alone and helpless.
This is what happens when our systems fail the most vulnerable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong attachment to a blue studio pottery mug she was given last Christmas. She reports that she is beginning to feel intensely anxious about the effect on other mugs that she owns.
Autistic woman worried her mugs have realised she has a favourite
An autistic woman is facing an ethical dilemma over her preference for drinking out of one particular mug, it has been revealed. Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong attachment...
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July 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong attachment to a blue studio pottery mug she was given last Christmas. She reports that she is beginning to feel intensely anxious about the effect on other mugs that she owns.
Is anyone else affected by EML/ Prepaid financial services data migration glitch? Carers have not been unpaid and families of vulnerable children and adults plus asylum seekers haven’t been able to access essential funds for a week. Yet the media is silent. Help! @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Is anyone else affected by EML/ Prepaid financial services data migration glitch? Carers have not been unpaid and families of vulnerable children and adults plus asylum seekers haven’t been able to access essential funds for a week. Yet the media is silent. Help! @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
My muscles were tested carrying end of term gifts into school today. But it’s clear that such hydration is merited for the wonderful bunch of humans who have nurtured my orchid so well this year, despite his (much needed) EHCP being stuck in the system - 56 weeks since EHCNA request!
July 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My muscles were tested carrying end of term gifts into school today. But it’s clear that such hydration is merited for the wonderful bunch of humans who have nurtured my orchid so well this year, despite his (much needed) EHCP being stuck in the system - 56 weeks since EHCNA request!
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Good to be me!
Sharing the most amazing video from @spectrumgaming.bsky.social a charity for Autistic young people in UK. Many Autistic people struggle with their autism diagnosis; they made a wonderful video about it.
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I cry happy tears EVERYTIME I watch this - beautiful!
Sharing the most amazing video from @spectrumgaming.bsky.social a charity for Autistic young people in UK. Many Autistic people struggle with their autism diagnosis; they made a wonderful video about it.
youtu.be/0pibDq98raQ?...
I cry happy tears EVERYTIME I watch this - beautiful!
Watch this if you think autism is bad ('Good To Be Me' music video)
YouTube video by Spectrum Gaming
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July 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Good to be me!
Sharing the most amazing video from @spectrumgaming.bsky.social a charity for Autistic young people in UK. Many Autistic people struggle with their autism diagnosis; they made a wonderful video about it.
youtu.be/0pibDq98raQ?...
I cry happy tears EVERYTIME I watch this - beautiful!
Sharing the most amazing video from @spectrumgaming.bsky.social a charity for Autistic young people in UK. Many Autistic people struggle with their autism diagnosis; they made a wonderful video about it.
youtu.be/0pibDq98raQ?...
I cry happy tears EVERYTIME I watch this - beautiful!
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🧵Fit notes are a legal statement of whether you are unfit for work, based on medical judgment. If the pilot announced this week steers GPs and allied professionals to only issue a fit note if you engage with support plans, it will become conditionality by the back door.
July 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🧵Fit notes are a legal statement of whether you are unfit for work, based on medical judgment. If the pilot announced this week steers GPs and allied professionals to only issue a fit note if you engage with support plans, it will become conditionality by the back door.
Thought for the day: When we focus solely on how we diverge, we get on each other’s nerves! We must remember what connects humanity.
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Thought for the day: When we focus solely on how we diverge, we get on each other’s nerves! We must remember what connects humanity.
For SEND parents, the system is like being forever stuck in Minecraft survival mode. Creative mode- the place where you feel yourself- is a distant memory. You don’t dare dream anymore. The unlawful behaviour of LAs and the endless unknown waits break your spirit. Yet you keep going- you have to
July 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
For SEND parents, the system is like being forever stuck in Minecraft survival mode. Creative mode- the place where you feel yourself- is a distant memory. You don’t dare dream anymore. The unlawful behaviour of LAs and the endless unknown waits break your spirit. Yet you keep going- you have to
Leaders should never avoid critique nor create chambers where they only listen through a filter created by their organisations culture. Courageous leadership embraces the discomfort of different views as a pivot for reflection and change. Innovation and sustainable improvement stems from bravery
July 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Leaders should never avoid critique nor create chambers where they only listen through a filter created by their organisations culture. Courageous leadership embraces the discomfort of different views as a pivot for reflection and change. Innovation and sustainable improvement stems from bravery
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@bfn-uk.bsky.social show exactly how much skilled breastfeeding support can contribute to the goals of the #NHS10YearPlan #FitForTheFuture #BreastfeedingMatters
In our latest blog post, Dr Sarah Turner and Joy Hastings, Chair and Vice-Chair of The Breastfeeding Network (UK) Board of Directors comment on the new 10 Year Health Plan for England.
📑Read more here:
www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/10-year-heal...
📑Read more here:
www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/10-year-heal...
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July 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@bfn-uk.bsky.social show exactly how much skilled breastfeeding support can contribute to the goals of the #NHS10YearPlan #FitForTheFuture #BreastfeedingMatters
These are wise words ❤️ Knowing the meaning of someone’s silence springs from relationship, connection and understanding!
July 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
These are wise words ❤️ Knowing the meaning of someone’s silence springs from relationship, connection and understanding!
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Imagine having all the money in the world and spending $400m on this horrific piece of crap.
July 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Imagine having all the money in the world and spending $400m on this horrific piece of crap.
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Can't shut off our idea switch - "That is another form of nervous system dysregulation..." Dr Cathleen King.
See longer video, plus to podcast, plus links to resources: How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation thecreativemind.substack.com/p/how-our-gr...
See longer video, plus to podcast, plus links to resources: How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation thecreativemind.substack.com/p/how-our-gr...
July 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Can't shut off our idea switch - "That is another form of nervous system dysregulation..." Dr Cathleen King.
See longer video, plus to podcast, plus links to resources: How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation thecreativemind.substack.com/p/how-our-gr...
See longer video, plus to podcast, plus links to resources: How our greediness for creative ideas can support nervous system dysregulation thecreativemind.substack.com/p/how-our-gr...
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NEW POST: "Total Communication" is a "cutting-edge" approach to supporting children with #SpeechAndLanguage challenges. It's helping unlock children's potential at Meath School, run by charity, @speechandlanguk.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/d...
July 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
NEW POST: "Total Communication" is a "cutting-edge" approach to supporting children with #SpeechAndLanguage challenges. It's helping unlock children's potential at Meath School, run by charity, @speechandlanguk.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/d...
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When “adaptive teaching” first became a “thing”, I recognised it as something I’d been doing for years with learners with SpLDs. Good pedagogy is good pedagogy. Let’s empower teachers to not see SEND as a bolt on and embed high quality teaching within our universal provision. Great article 👇🏼
Experts say 'the characteristics of good pedagogy for children with SEND aren’t all that different from good pedagogy, full stop'. So, if that’s the case, why isn’t everyone already doing it?
Here, we investigate the four key issues that could be holding inclusive practice back ⬇️
Here, we investigate the four key issues that could be holding inclusive practice back ⬇️
4 barriers to inclusive practice – and how to overcome them
What needs to happen to make genuine inclusion a reality? Zofia Niemtus speaks to experts to find out
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July 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
When “adaptive teaching” first became a “thing”, I recognised it as something I’d been doing for years with learners with SpLDs. Good pedagogy is good pedagogy. Let’s empower teachers to not see SEND as a bolt on and embed high quality teaching within our universal provision. Great article 👇🏼
Oooh! I hope this doesn’t give anyone ideas for the pending Children and Wellbeing Bill 😉
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oooh! I hope this doesn’t give anyone ideas for the pending Children and Wellbeing Bill 😉
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@fcdwhittaker.bsky.social @missmc.bsky.social @eddorrell.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @jonnyuttley.bsky.social @duncanspalding.bsky.social @heymrshallahan.bsky.social @carolinebarlow.bsky.social and of course Mick Waters We are looking forward to seeing you all! www.podbean.com/media/share/...
S5E22 Kicking the can down the road
Desperately needed reform of both SEND & Ofsted have been kicked in tot he autumn long grass. Sarah & Jonathan raise an eyebrow, as well as looking ahead to next week's Festival of Education.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
@fcdwhittaker.bsky.social @missmc.bsky.social @eddorrell.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @jonnyuttley.bsky.social @duncanspalding.bsky.social @heymrshallahan.bsky.social @carolinebarlow.bsky.social and of course Mick Waters We are looking forward to seeing you all! www.podbean.com/media/share/...
You’re never too old for a poo joke when you’re a health visitor!
June 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You’re never too old for a poo joke when you’re a health visitor!
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Our list of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance topic books for primary KS1 and KS2. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/teach... #kidlit #picturebook #childrensbook #ukedchat #homelearning
Teaching diversity through reading in primary schools
Diversity books for KS1 and KS2, with books by Kwame Alexander, Michael Rosen, Polly Ho-Yen, Shaun Tan, Anne Frank, and Paul Harfleet.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Our list of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance topic books for primary KS1 and KS2. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/teach... #kidlit #picturebook #childrensbook #ukedchat #homelearning
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3: 🏫 "Tune in to learn how playful approaches can break barriers in education and support every child's unique journey. 📖 #EducationReimagined #ChildDevelopment #play #child #parenting #family #schools #children
June 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
3: 🏫 "Tune in to learn how playful approaches can break barriers in education and support every child's unique journey. 📖 #EducationReimagined #ChildDevelopment #play #child #parenting #family #schools #children