Rob Williams
@robw40.bsky.social
Former Primary Teacher / Headteacher, now Senior Education Policy Advisor.
❤️ Family, friends, travel, food, drink, music, sport.
Cardiff Rugby 🔵🌑
Embrace the chaos!
❤️ Family, friends, travel, food, drink, music, sport.
Cardiff Rugby 🔵🌑
Embrace the chaos!
Fair play, brave of the WRU to advertise the NZ and SA games in the commercial break after that 1st half…
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fair play, brave of the WRU to advertise the NZ and SA games in the commercial break after that 1st half…
Our basics are utter pants… 🏴
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Our basics are utter pants… 🏴
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ICYMI: Council officers attempted to carry out an elective home education visit to Sara Sharif’s home the day before she was murdered, but went to the wrong address despite the school providing the correct one, a review has found
schoolsweek.co.uk/sara-sharif-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/sara-sharif-...
Sara Sharif: Home education check was made at wrong address
Review finds 'no doubt Sara's father and stepmother used home education to keep Sara hidden from view'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICYMI: Council officers attempted to carry out an elective home education visit to Sara Sharif’s home the day before she was murdered, but went to the wrong address despite the school providing the correct one, a review has found
schoolsweek.co.uk/sara-sharif-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/sara-sharif-...
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Dw i wrth fy modd i weld fy llyfr newydd yn un o Lyfrau’r Mis y Cyngor Llyfrau!
I am really proud to see the 🏴 version of my book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes'/ 'Arwyr Chwaraeon Cymru' get named by the Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (Book Council of Wales) as a 'Book of the Month'. 📚 @ylolfa.bsky.social
I am really proud to see the 🏴 version of my book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes'/ 'Arwyr Chwaraeon Cymru' get named by the Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (Book Council of Wales) as a 'Book of the Month'. 📚 @ylolfa.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Dw i wrth fy modd i weld fy llyfr newydd yn un o Lyfrau’r Mis y Cyngor Llyfrau!
I am really proud to see the 🏴 version of my book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes'/ 'Arwyr Chwaraeon Cymru' get named by the Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (Book Council of Wales) as a 'Book of the Month'. 📚 @ylolfa.bsky.social
I am really proud to see the 🏴 version of my book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes'/ 'Arwyr Chwaraeon Cymru' get named by the Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (Book Council of Wales) as a 'Book of the Month'. 📚 @ylolfa.bsky.social
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Yup, screaming.
It was a bad edit and needed correction, but you’d have to be a wilful idiot to think it made the overall programme misleading. Trump really did encourage January 6, for months.
Nobody needed to resign over that and it doesn’t mean BBC News is untrustworthy.
It was a bad edit and needed correction, but you’d have to be a wilful idiot to think it made the overall programme misleading. Trump really did encourage January 6, for months.
Nobody needed to resign over that and it doesn’t mean BBC News is untrustworthy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Yup, screaming.
It was a bad edit and needed correction, but you’d have to be a wilful idiot to think it made the overall programme misleading. Trump really did encourage January 6, for months.
Nobody needed to resign over that and it doesn’t mean BBC News is untrustworthy.
It was a bad edit and needed correction, but you’d have to be a wilful idiot to think it made the overall programme misleading. Trump really did encourage January 6, for months.
Nobody needed to resign over that and it doesn’t mean BBC News is untrustworthy.
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🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
What final grade does the Curriculum and Assessment Review deserve?
@marymyatt.bsky.social and Dale Bassett joined me to discuss the Review's main proposals in primary and secondary education and their potential impact on children and young people.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
What final grade does the Curriculum and Assessment Review deserve?
@marymyatt.bsky.social and Dale Bassett joined me to discuss the Review's main proposals in primary and secondary education and their potential impact on children and young people.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
What final grade does the Curriculum and Assessment Review deserve?
@marymyatt.bsky.social and Dale Bassett joined me to discuss the Review's main proposals in primary and secondary education and their potential impact on children and young people.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
What final grade does the Curriculum and Assessment Review deserve?
@marymyatt.bsky.social and Dale Bassett joined me to discuss the Review's main proposals in primary and secondary education and their potential impact on children and young people.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
Looking at the game objectively, how many of Argentina’s tries have been from massive errors from us, & how many from their own creativity? It feels about 50/50, but I’m not exactly objective…
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Looking at the game objectively, how many of Argentina’s tries have been from massive errors from us, & how many from their own creativity? It feels about 50/50, but I’m not exactly objective…
I know it’s seemingly irrelevant, but I’m liking how we fight at the breakdown much harder.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I know it’s seemingly irrelevant, but I’m liking how we fight at the breakdown much harder.
That was incredibly easy for Argentina.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
That was incredibly easy for Argentina.
How was that a ruck? Neither knee on the floor?? Seemed to be held up.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
How was that a ruck? Neither knee on the floor?? Seemed to be held up.
Brilliant try!
Please - more of that! 😎👍
Please - more of that! 😎👍
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Brilliant try!
Please - more of that! 😎👍
Please - more of that! 😎👍
It’s Wales’ inability to deliver basics & remain composed which is incredibly frustrating. Fixable things but consistently poor.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s Wales’ inability to deliver basics & remain composed which is incredibly frustrating. Fixable things but consistently poor.
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Utterly terrifying.
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Utterly terrifying.
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The government will struggle to solve the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities support or close the disadvantage-related attainment gap under its current spending plans, a new policy analysis warns www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Government ‘will struggle to fix SEND crisis by 2029’
The government’s approach to SEND reform is ‘disjointed’ and its ambitions will be restricted by the budget it has set for this parliament, new analysis warns
www.tes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The government will struggle to solve the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities support or close the disadvantage-related attainment gap under its current spending plans, a new policy analysis warns www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Utterly terrifying.
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Utterly terrifying.
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The companies’ responses that these are older versions of AI is equally appalling - so you’re admitting you’re experimenting in dangerous ways with our children, young people & vulnerable adults whilst you refine your product?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The final report of the independent ADHD Taskforce has found the condition is under-recognised, under-diagnosed, and under-treated, warning of an urgent need for major changes across the NHS. www.pslhub.org/learn/patient...
NHS England: Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1 (20 June 2025)
This report provides initial evidence-informed recommendations for ADHD
www.pslhub.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The final report of the independent ADHD Taskforce has found the condition is under-recognised, under-diagnosed, and under-treated, warning of an urgent need for major changes across the NHS. www.pslhub.org/learn/patient...
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NAHT past president, Simon Kidwell, spoke to BBC Breakfast this morning about the strengths and weaknesses of the recommendations in the new curriculum and assessment review 👇
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NAHT past president, Simon Kidwell, spoke to BBC Breakfast this morning about the strengths and weaknesses of the recommendations in the new curriculum and assessment review 👇
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Anyone want to see a conversion attempt hit the woodwork not once, not twice, not three times but FOUR TIMES on its way between the sticks. Crossbar Challenge Level: Impossible.
Hannah Brink for the US Naval Academy team
Hannah Brink for the US Naval Academy team
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anyone want to see a conversion attempt hit the woodwork not once, not twice, not three times but FOUR TIMES on its way between the sticks. Crossbar Challenge Level: Impossible.
Hannah Brink for the US Naval Academy team
Hannah Brink for the US Naval Academy team
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The crushing irony of him saying, out loud, “They are dividing us, not uniting us. They are feeding this negative culture in.”
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The crushing irony of him saying, out loud, “They are dividing us, not uniting us. They are feeding this negative culture in.”
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The crushing irony of him saying, out loud, “They are dividing us, not uniting us. They are feeding this negative culture in.”
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The crushing irony of him saying, out loud, “They are dividing us, not uniting us. They are feeding this negative culture in.”
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When the whole ‘othering’ approach he & his party have adopted is laced with division!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A 🧵about #WRU control:
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A 🧵about #WRU control:
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
A great thread 🧵, summing up exactly what many of us have been saying for some time:
- WRU control over things has previously proven disastrous!
- What incentives are there for investors when they have no control over the actual ‘product’ in which they’re investing?
- WRU control over things has previously proven disastrous!
- What incentives are there for investors when they have no control over the actual ‘product’ in which they’re investing?
A 🧵about #WRU control:
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
Since the WRU’s big reveal of their latest data-backed Optimal Solution last Friday, most of the media focus has been on their plans to now cut one, not two clubs.
It’s safe to say that this has gone down like a cup of cold sick. Again.
#WelshRugby
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A great thread 🧵, summing up exactly what many of us have been saying for some time:
- WRU control over things has previously proven disastrous!
- What incentives are there for investors when they have no control over the actual ‘product’ in which they’re investing?
- WRU control over things has previously proven disastrous!
- What incentives are there for investors when they have no control over the actual ‘product’ in which they’re investing?
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▶️ WATCH: NAHT policy officer, Andy Walls, gave evidence to the Education Select Committee this morning on the RAAC crisis and the need for further funding to make our school buildings safe.
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
▶️ WATCH: NAHT policy officer, Andy Walls, gave evidence to the Education Select Committee this morning on the RAAC crisis and the need for further funding to make our school buildings safe.
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)