If it's a day ending in Y, time for another example of #Tory damage

In my #BBCNews app, top stories:

Not shown: latest on the trial of a former US President

Shown: Man injured by shark in Tobago (#3) and Nancy Pelosi critique on school protestors (#10 and the highest US&Canada story)

FFS, #Tories have eroded every institution - in this case through partisan appointees and decreased funding

Stop sacrificing the Arts for STEM.

"By the government’s own estimates, the creative industries contribute around £126 billion to the UK economy. That’s more than the car industry, for instance, or aerospace, oil and gas."

https://theconversation.com/uks-creative-industries-bring-in-more-revenue-than-cars-oil-and-gas-so-why-is-arts-education-facing-cuts-227884

#uk #fundingcuts #tories #arts #humanities #highereducation

JFC, the #UK is so desperate for a #GeneralElection which must be called in the next 6 months ... But not before the #Tories make one more attack to damage the #NHS

Enough! #ToriesUnfitToGovern
#GeneralElectionNow

BBC News - Sunak to tackle 'sick note culture' in speech on welfare reform
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68853166

Sunak to tackle 'sick note culture' in speech on welfare reform

The PM will say the focus should be on "what work you can do", but Labour says he has run out of ideas.

^{By James Gregory (BBC News)}

This window on to the failing in the care of vulnerable children is heartbreaking & another dimension of the crisis in local authority funding & collapse of social care.

Unregistered providers see children as cash cows that they can exploit as the requirement that private facilities have OFTSTED clearance (itself hardly unproblematic) has opened up already vulnerable young people to further abuse & mistreatment.

Tory cuts are behind all of this!

#socialcare #Tories

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/13/nowhere-else-is-available-how-vulnerable-children-end-up-in-care-homes

‘Nowhere else is available’: how vulnerable children end up in illegal care homes

Harrowing court video hearings reveal plight of those unable to find a place in secure, registered accommodation

^{Tom Wall (The Guardian)}