Every day of absence and lesson missed has a cost – and that cost falls hardest on our most disadvantaged pupils and working class communities.
Bridget Phillipson: “Every day of absence and lesson missed has a cost – and that cost falls hardest on our most disadvantaged pupils and…”
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Discussing the impact of school absences
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Women's safety is a national emergency, but that has to mean all women, because you know we live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days, and the safety of women is of the utmost importance.
We live in a country where a woman is killed by her partner or former partner every five days.
Kemi Badenoch's Tories held young people back and caused the welfare bill to spiral. To pretend she's suddenly on the side of young people is frankly insulting.
A lot of what happened in that period was that there was a total failure to listen to women, to believe women – especially working class girls who were reporting unimaginable abuse but weren't taken seriously.





