Changing Realities
@changingrealities.bsky.social
Documenting & seeking to improve life on a low-income during the cost of living crisis. Funded by @finan_fairness Partnership with
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Moreover, our report produced alongside IPPR on what is needed in the Child Poverty Strategy can be read here: www.ippr.org/articles/get...
Getting the child poverty strategy we need: A co-produced agenda for change | IPPR
Any credible child poverty strategy must act directly to put more money into parents’ pockets. This starts with the removal of the two-child limit and bene
www.ippr.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Moreover, our report produced alongside IPPR on what is needed in the Child Poverty Strategy can be read here: www.ippr.org/articles/get...
You can read our joint report with @ippr.org and @cpaguk.bsky.social here: www.ippr.org/articles/get...
www.ippr.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
You can read our joint report with @ippr.org and @cpaguk.bsky.social here: www.ippr.org/articles/get...
The discussion - co-hosted with IPPR - focussed on key priorities outlined by our collective of CR participants: an end to the two-child limit, the abolition of the benefit cap, more support for school costs & childcare, and the harmful fixation on work-seeking. Blogs & more to come from this! ✏️
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The discussion - co-hosted with IPPR - focussed on key priorities outlined by our collective of CR participants: an end to the two-child limit, the abolition of the benefit cap, more support for school costs & childcare, and the harmful fixation on work-seeking. Blogs & more to come from this! ✏️
Jonny Roberts says that it is impossible to overstate how totemic the forthcoming child poverty strategy is for families on a low-income like him. They need to see that this government is on their side, & they're waiting patiently for the government to demonstrate this
September 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Jonny Roberts says that it is impossible to overstate how totemic the forthcoming child poverty strategy is for families on a low-income like him. They need to see that this government is on their side, & they're waiting patiently for the government to demonstrate this
Jonny ended with a call to action on child care, including ambitious proposals to make breakfast clubs a foundation to a universal afters school club offer as well as a move to 100% reimbursement and up front payments on child care for those on UC www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
www.changingrealities.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Jonny ended with a call to action on child care, including ambitious proposals to make breakfast clubs a foundation to a universal afters school club offer as well as a move to 100% reimbursement and up front payments on child care for those on UC www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
The two-child limit needs to go and would make a transformative diference to children’s lives
we need to see action on local housing allowance rates says Jonny, parent in Changing Realities at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social
www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
we need to see action on local housing allowance rates says Jonny, parent in Changing Realities at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social
www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
www.changingrealities.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The two-child limit needs to go and would make a transformative diference to children’s lives
we need to see action on local housing allowance rates says Jonny, parent in Changing Realities at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social
www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
we need to see action on local housing allowance rates says Jonny, parent in Changing Realities at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social
www.changingrealities.org/writings/get...
Setting out the daily reality of life on a low income, Jonny Roberts says 't’s getting to the end of the month and having to buy the cheapest oven thing
Or persuading my son
although his football boots are too small, he can make do until the next month [at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe]
Or persuading my son
although his football boots are too small, he can make do until the next month [at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe]
September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Setting out the daily reality of life on a low income, Jonny Roberts says 't’s getting to the end of the month and having to buy the cheapest oven thing
Or persuading my son
although his football boots are too small, he can make do until the next month [at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe]
Or persuading my son
although his football boots are too small, he can make do until the next month [at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe]
Jonny said...
It’s the insidious things about child poverty that really get to you
and it's the children who are affected that we need to keep in mind
[speaking at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social ]
Read more at www.bigissue.com/opinion/sing...
It’s the insidious things about child poverty that really get to you
and it's the children who are affected that we need to keep in mind
[speaking at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social ]
Read more at www.bigissue.com/opinion/sing...
I'm a single dad asking Keir Starmer to do more to tackle child poverty
Jonny Roberts is a single parent with two children. He is speaking at a Child Poverty Action Group event at the Labour Party Conference.
www.bigissue.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Jonny said...
It’s the insidious things about child poverty that really get to you
and it's the children who are affected that we need to keep in mind
[speaking at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social ]
Read more at www.bigissue.com/opinion/sing...
It’s the insidious things about child poverty that really get to you
and it's the children who are affected that we need to keep in mind
[speaking at @cpaguk.bsky.social fringe chaired by @stephenkb.bsky.social ]
Read more at www.bigissue.com/opinion/sing...
We can and must build a better system of SEND support for children and young people in England. Theirs -- and indeed all of our futures -- depend on it. Please do read and share our policy note: www.changingrealities.org/writings/wha...
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www.changingrealities.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We can and must build a better system of SEND support for children and young people in England. Theirs -- and indeed all of our futures -- depend on it. Please do read and share our policy note: www.changingrealities.org/writings/wha...
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which echoes much of what is in @@johnharris1969.bsky.social column in today’s Guardian, and in the Education Select Committee report which you can read here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
Solving the SEND crisis: report calls for culture shift and funding to make mainstream education genuinely inclusive - Committees - UK Parliament
A new Education Committee report calls for a root and branch transformation of the way mainstream education caters to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).&...
committees.parliament.uk
September 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
which echoes much of what is in @@johnharris1969.bsky.social column in today’s Guardian, and in the Education Select Committee report which you can read here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...