Sarah Hutchinson
@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social
Heath and social care policy. Maternity and patient and public involvement. Feminist mum to boys.
I had a miscarriage that week, was looking after a toddler, it was my birthday...and I still carried on doing my job.
Also he was there supposed to be writing his bloody book. He was not-doing two jobs.
Also he was there supposed to be writing his bloody book. He was not-doing two jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I had a miscarriage that week, was looking after a toddler, it was my birthday...and I still carried on doing my job.
Also he was there supposed to be writing his bloody book. He was not-doing two jobs.
Also he was there supposed to be writing his bloody book. He was not-doing two jobs.
My parents and sister were immigrants living in Chicago in the 2000s - some very happy times. It is horrifying and so hard to process the terror now striking the city and state
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
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What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
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October 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
My parents and sister were immigrants living in Chicago in the 2000s - some very happy times. It is horrifying and so hard to process the terror now striking the city and state
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Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn the layout of her small workplace and still frequently ends up in the stationery cupboard, reportedly thought it would be a great idea to visit a dense thicket of over a million maize plants and see what happens.
Dyspraxic woman at corn maze still looking for way in
A dyspraxic autistic woman tasked with finding her way out of a Halloween corn maze first has to find the entrance, her loved ones have revealed. Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn…
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October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn the layout of her small workplace and still frequently ends up in the stationery cupboard, reportedly thought it would be a great idea to visit a dense thicket of over a million maize plants and see what happens.
My reception-aged son's teacher has asked for photos of how the children were welcomed into the family when they were born, which is an unusually intense request for parents of lockdown-neonates. Need to come up with something that won't traumatise anyone (else)
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My reception-aged son's teacher has asked for photos of how the children were welcomed into the family when they were born, which is an unusually intense request for parents of lockdown-neonates. Need to come up with something that won't traumatise anyone (else)
We are 3 minutes into what would have been the school day if there wasn't an emergency closure due to a broken boiler (!) and I am shattered. It is amazing anyone survived lockdown homeschooling.
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We are 3 minutes into what would have been the school day if there wasn't an emergency closure due to a broken boiler (!) and I am shattered. It is amazing anyone survived lockdown homeschooling.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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HOPE not hate condemn the appalling, violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all affected.
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
HOPE not hate condemn the appalling, violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all affected.
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Missed this from Monday. I still think this has the potential to be a disastrous direction of travel. Normalising keeping kids in SEND units deprives them of the security of the mainstream offer or a specialist place.
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Here's how Labour's plans for SEND units in mainstream schools will actually work
Labour hopes SEND units in mainstream schools will gradually replace the need for individual EHCPs, taking pressure off local authority budgets
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October 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Missed this from Monday. I still think this has the potential to be a disastrous direction of travel. Normalising keeping kids in SEND units deprives them of the security of the mainstream offer or a specialist place.
inews.co.uk/news/labours...
inews.co.uk/news/labours...
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If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.
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PSA for the PSAs: autism isn't harm
September 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
PSA for the PSAs: autism isn't harm
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Comparing paracetamol to thalidomide is genuinely laughable. They should be laughing at him.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Comparing paracetamol to thalidomide is genuinely laughable. They should be laughing at him.
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Brenda Hernández, 45, who until recently had spent her life oscillating between fawning responses and explosive outbursts, issued a statement today explaining that she is finally at peace and totally, blissfully fuckless.
Autistic woman finally free after running out of fucks to give
An autistic woman has been liberated from guilt, worry and an unending cycle of avoidable conflict by officially handing in her last fuck, it has been confirmed. Brenda Hernández, 45, who until…
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September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Brenda Hernández, 45, who until recently had spent her life oscillating between fawning responses and explosive outbursts, issued a statement today explaining that she is finally at peace and totally, blissfully fuckless.
Grateful to all the MPs speaking in defence of this right.
Until you're living it its hard to comprehend how poorly supported schools and staff can be, how little training they receive in how to support children with additional needs, how utterly disinterested and willfully obstructive LAs can be.
Until you're living it its hard to comprehend how poorly supported schools and staff can be, how little training they receive in how to support children with additional needs, how utterly disinterested and willfully obstructive LAs can be.
A packed Westminster Hall debate is getting underway into a petition signed by more than 120,000 people calling on the government to "retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND". www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Don’t remove the legal rights of children with SEND
The SEND system is in need of reform but restricting children’s access to support through EHCPs isn’t the answer, warns IPSEA’s Catriona Moore
www.tes.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Grateful to all the MPs speaking in defence of this right.
Until you're living it its hard to comprehend how poorly supported schools and staff can be, how little training they receive in how to support children with additional needs, how utterly disinterested and willfully obstructive LAs can be.
Until you're living it its hard to comprehend how poorly supported schools and staff can be, how little training they receive in how to support children with additional needs, how utterly disinterested and willfully obstructive LAs can be.
The price of "free childcare" in modern Britain appears to be going full circle and applying nit lotion to your mum after the grandkids cause an infestation.
August 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The price of "free childcare" in modern Britain appears to be going full circle and applying nit lotion to your mum after the grandkids cause an infestation.
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@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social right on the money here in so many ways. Might I add: not only does the country benefit from this free labour, gender health gaps show women get sicker because of it. It's not a solution to pin the future of an economy on free labour that makes half the workforce sicker.
I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips
Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to
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August 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social right on the money here in so many ways. Might I add: not only does the country benefit from this free labour, gender health gaps show women get sicker because of it. It's not a solution to pin the future of an economy on free labour that makes half the workforce sicker.
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This is very good, and highlights the impact of our housing mess.
My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is very good, and highlights the impact of our housing mess.
This is a heart-rending and beautiful account of baby loss. Her guilt at "lying" to a midwife who was treating her badly will haunt me.
The year after my son died in childbirth | Poppy Noor
The year after my son died in childbirth | Poppy Noor
After the tragedy, one question haunted me: how do you miss an unborn child?
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July 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is a heart-rending and beautiful account of baby loss. Her guilt at "lying" to a midwife who was treating her badly will haunt me.
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The situation for SEND kids:
Last time I tried to find a club my eldest could go to, as he needs a 1:1, this was the cost per day 🥲
Last time I tried to find a club my eldest could go to, as he needs a 1:1, this was the cost per day 🥲
July 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The situation for SEND kids:
Last time I tried to find a club my eldest could go to, as he needs a 1:1, this was the cost per day 🥲
Last time I tried to find a club my eldest could go to, as he needs a 1:1, this was the cost per day 🥲
Good to see Florence's legacy lives on
July 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Good to see Florence's legacy lives on
This is just excellent on how to get reform of SEND education right (and how you can get it wrong)
Please read this on SEND, and if you know anyone in DfE, send it their way.
Thanks @ndempseyinco14.bsky.social
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Thanks @ndempseyinco14.bsky.social
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Banning lifejackets to reduce drownings.
As the conversation around SEND reform continues, it increasingly feels like we are trying to solve problems by tackling symptoms and not causes; choosing the immediate over the impactful. We…
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July 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is just excellent on how to get reform of SEND education right (and how you can get it wrong)
I have been taken aback by some of the casual racism I have witnessed or heard of since starting as a maternity service-user rep. No awareness that it's problematic, let alone consequences or training for staff. Disbelief when women complain of racist treatment.
Black women are subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social says as a new report by Fivexmore tomorrow details the experiences of hundreds of women. The Sunday Times has the preview:
www.thetimes.com/article/b8d4...
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Black women ‘denied pain relief’ on NHS maternity wards
Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination
www.thetimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I have been taken aback by some of the casual racism I have witnessed or heard of since starting as a maternity service-user rep. No awareness that it's problematic, let alone consequences or training for staff. Disbelief when women complain of racist treatment.
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“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
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July 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I wrote about my fears we're sleeping walking into policy groupthink on SEND units, and the very real risks with that direction of travel:
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Beanbag rooms
We need to hit the brakes on the emerging groupthink around SEND units in mainstream schools
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July 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I wrote about my fears we're sleeping walking into policy groupthink on SEND units, and the very real risks with that direction of travel:
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...
I went to a presentation by the head of SEN here last week about his "One plan for Send" and you know what, the educational attainment of these kids did not factor in. At all. I raised the complete resistance to including knowledge as an outcome in our kid's EHCP and he didn't seem to understand
There is a ‘looming inequality crisis’, warns @edupolicyinst.bsky.social as report reveals that 3% of 5-year-olds with an EHCP were 20.1 months behind their peers in 2024
SEND attainment gap at ‘record high’ for 5-year-olds
Education Policy Institute report highlights ‘looming inequality crisis’, with disadvantaged pupils falling further behind
www.tes.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I went to a presentation by the head of SEN here last week about his "One plan for Send" and you know what, the educational attainment of these kids did not factor in. At all. I raised the complete resistance to including knowledge as an outcome in our kid's EHCP and he didn't seem to understand
I sometimes forget that I'm an "older" mum...and sometimes school decides to remind me in brutal fashion
July 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I sometimes forget that I'm an "older" mum...and sometimes school decides to remind me in brutal fashion