It was a pleasure to meet Joan - a regular user of our new 35 Hopper bus 🚌!

As she says “if you don’t use them, you lose them!”

With the Christmas season coming up, there’s a great opportunity for everyone to make the most of them 🎄🤶🎅

Each week of this Disability History Month I want to highlight people with disabilities throughout history who have inspired me.

I chatted about how Sheffield's very own Lord David Blunkett inspired me growing up on Matt Forde's podcast 👇

I’m so proud that our Labour Government are removing the two child benefit cap from April - announced in today’s Budget.

This will lift over a massive 450,000 children out of poverty across the country.

This is the difference a Labour Government makes.

Today is White Ribbon Day – an annual campaign day calling for the end of Violence Against Women and Girls.

It was great to sit down with my fantastic colleague Emily Darlington to hear more about why this day is so important.

www.whiteribbon.org.uk

One of the best parts of my job is sharing my passion for politics and public service with young people across our schools.

Ahead of UK Parliament Week, I spoke on Penistone FM about the opportunity for schools to see democracy in action down in Westminster.

With less than a week to go until I swim 7km for £7k, I spoke with Graham Silverwood, Chair at Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre – the place where my swimming journey began, and where I’m fundraising for a fully accessible changing room.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/swim-penis...

Representation of disabled people in broadcast tv, both on and off screen, has doubled since 2018, as reported by the @tweetCDN.

Earlier this week, I raised in Parliament the need to go further, to double disability representation again, both on and off our tv screens.

My mum and dad taught me there’s no such word as can’t.

It was brilliant to chat to Matt Forde on his podcast about how that drives me now as an MP.

You can listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...