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Martin Barrow
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Martin Barrow
@MartinBarrow
I am no longer posting on X/Twitter. You can find me on Blue Sky, LinkedIn and Substack. I hope you can join me.
Joined January 2009
- The Children's Minister, voting against free school meals for the poorest children. That is all.
- Another Met Police scandal: a black girl was stripped and searched at school. The search, which involved the exposure of her intimate body parts, took place without an appropriate adult present and with the knowledge that she was menstruating. Case review: chscp.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
- A Sunday slice of foster care life: 15 months or so ago, when the boys first came to live with us, they struggled being in crowded spaces. When we took them for their first ever haircut, they were very anxious. 🧵
- Ofsted has published new data showing how children's homes have become a huge, money-spinning business. If you are squeamish about these things, look away now. 🧵
- Replying to @MartinBarrow"One feature believed to have a significance to the experience of Child Q is that of adultification bias...where adults perceive Black children as being older than they are." She was at her school.
- Replying to @MartinBarrow"...had child Q not been Black, then her experiences are unlikely to have been the same."
- Replying to @MartinBarrowHow do so many adults responsible for the safety and wellbeing of children become so dehumanised?
- Witherslack, one of the UK’s biggest private providers of children’s homes and special schools, was quietly taken over by an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund for almost £600 million last year. A🧵about why the UK's children in care are now big business for international investors.
- Replying to @MartinBarrowThere are so many people who, like the young barber, have been there for the children, and for us. We are so touched by their kindness and will forever be in their debt. We couldn’t do this without them.
- Replying to @MartinBarrowI've not seen this reported anywhere yet. I live in hope. This is an absolute scandal.
- Replying to @MartinBarrowEvery day we witness something that makes us look at one another and say Wow out loud. It’s something they don’t tell you when you sign up but it is massive.
- This is immense: Tony Hudgell, 9, receives a BEM for services to the prevention of child abuse. He raised more than £1.8m for the hospital that saved him after suffering abuse as a baby. #TomorrowsPapersToday
