Yes my sense is that is the rule for the vast majority of schools anyway

There are also logistical issues on a ban for schools (depending on what you mean by ban) and parents around safety travelling from school across cities on multiple buses, kids who are carers and want to be in touch with home, etc. It's not always the straightforward issue it's presented to be.

My Dad had bad childhood asthma in the era before salbutamol was discovered/developed and would spend long periods in hospital (often on his own as a young kid). Absolutely terrifying thought....

You know what's great if you have a child who about twice a year ends up in A&E due to asthma - salbutamol and dexamethasone available in a nearby NHS children's hospital full of very experienced and kind staff. There's no cost, admin or insurance forms. Just fix you up and off you pop.

I think my concern is Government thinks, OK job done rather than actually hold tech companies properly accountable.

Starmer agrees ban on phones in schools in law U-turn The government has committed to making device restrictions mandatory by law, but campaigners fear the measures do not go far enough

No one has been able to explain to me or show me actual evidence this will make any diff. Kids already don’t have their phones in lessons. Doesn’t do anything to address unsupervised use the rest of the time plus ‘what’ they’re accessing on a range of devices.

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Health visitors call for limits on 'impossible' 1,000-family caseloads BBC analysis shows the number of health visitors in England has almost halved in the last 10 years.

When my kids were little there were twice as many health visitors and loads of drop in sessions. I had a ton of help with feeding/reflux/weaning with no 1. With no 2 they helped me access speech therapy. Early support is really vital. (no 3 was born ready for anything). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes!! 🤢

RSV maternal vaccine cuts baby hospital admissions by up to 85% Largest real-world study in England confirms premature infants protected by vaccination.

RSV maternal vaccine cuts baby hospital admissions by up to 85% www.gov.uk/government/n...

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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Women waiting too long for NHS care because of ‘medical misogyny’, top doctor warns Exclusive: Women’s health conditions not being prioritised by health service, Dr Alison Wright warns as government prepares to launch new strategy to tackle crisis

Women waiting too long for NHS care because of ‘medical misogyny’, top doctor warns. Report by MJA member @rebeccasmt.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Jesus they are really stupid questions. Not least because most public health experts I speak to would never want to 'enforce' uptake. Also asking questions is not an inherently bad thing? FFS

Me too! And now I need to read the book….

The first report from the Southport attack inquiry is very insightful and its findings should be taken seriously for the pool of terrorism and non-terrorism cases where I see factors in Axel Rudakubana's case frequently recur

Issues regarding parenting are rarely addressed in the courts, but...

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Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS

That's £1.6bn profit that went to investors and hedge funds, not to training more nurses and doctors, or investing in crumbling infrastructure, or sorting out corridor care.
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More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Catching up on the news in a morning is often an emotional rollercoaster. Orban out without question in a landslide election in Hungary while also the Pope is WEAK on crime is quite the way to start a Monday 🎢

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Wonder what the antivax venn diagram looks like - might just be two circles on top of each other

Another successful year for the MJA mjauk.org/2026/04/10/a...

Was looking at a cool BBC explainer video on Insta last night about Artemis II return and so many comments underneath about how it’s all fake. Some people need to get offline and go and speak to real folk for a bit (she posts on Bsky) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Fun Friday geography quiz. See if you can spot the hospital placed in completely the wrong part of the country on this map... www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

God it just gets murkier and murkier. Grateful that @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is shining a light. Also that company name 🫣