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5 May 2021
My kiddo stopped talking as a result of the trauma he suffered. He communicated by barking. For months I didn't understand why. Until a stranger asked him.
He barked because everyone likes dogs, so he thought if he acted like a dog...the staff would like him.
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Jun 12
People like @RemoveTheRoom have been trying to raise this issue for years, but they have largely been ignored.
Hopefully headlines like this will help put the issue back in focus.
Jun 12
Exclusive investigation finds isolation rooms now used in 90% of secondary schools, with disabled children worst affected and some developing suicidal thoughts
š“ Keith Cooper reports
Read more: trib.al/ltPTXA9
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Jun 12
Belfast GAA clubs rally to provide shelter and support for families displaced by race riots irishnews.com/news/northern-ā¦
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if you know your history
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Jun 12
This is me on this week's On The Spot Football podcast with Johnny McMurray. I'm talking about my book and all things Glentoran this century. Feel free to share this (please).
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Jun 12
Exclusive investigation finds isolation rooms now used in 90% of secondary schools, with disabled children worst affected and some developing suicidal thoughts
š“ Keith Cooper reports
Read more: trib.al/ltPTXA9
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GIFT ARTICLE
Children as young as four locked away for hours in school 'seclusion rooms'
The 100 accounts were collected by the International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion, which plans to submit them to the United Nations in the autumn as evidence that the UK Government has failed to comply with a 2023 UN recommendation that seclusion be banned as a disciplinary measure in schools.
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The same thing is happening here in NI.
Our Dept of Education are refusing to acknowledge how Seclusion will continue as an undocumented therefore unregulated practice under the name of Isolation, Internal Suspension, Detention etc
It's not abolished, just renamed.
āThese accounts are a damning indictment of Westminsterās failure to act on seclusion as a disciplinary practice in Englandās schools,ā says Becky Gillespie who heads ICARSā UK division. āThe harm to children and families is horrifying.ā
'I found my SEND son sobbing': Inside the damaging school isolation rooms inews.co.uk/news/i-found-my-ā¦
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Because we have a problem with violence here š« š
Violence is normalised.
We haven't even abolished corporal punishment from our schools š«
Jun 12
Fionola Meredith: Scotland, Wales and the Republic protect children from physical punishment... so why does NI refuse to follow suit?
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Smacking leads to worse exam results, research finds trib.al/lDxvdQ4
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Jun 11
Smacking children could lead to lower GCSE grades, study suggests bbc.in/4anNMLy
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And yet our elected reps want to continue to convict children for crimes that they have been encouraged/manipulated/coerced into participating in by adults...
Here is an actual fact for you. Older men have been observed telling young men/teenagers what to do during disorder.
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If a child below 14 is out burning down houses in NI there is a good chance that child is a victim of child criminal exploitation who needs help interventions through the right channels and reduction in paramilitary influence in their community.
Jun 10
Itās worth noting that under the imminent plans proposed by Alliance, SDLP & Sinn Fein to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, if a child one day below 14 burnt a house down the PSNI would not even be able to investigate them, as they would have not committed a crime.
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Jun 10
WEST BELFAST PRINCIPALS: 'Our children have a right to be educated and to live free from violence and intimidation'
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āA criminal act cannot define an entire demographic. Knife violence didnāt arrive in Belfast with a refugee. It didnāt cross the border on a bus. It was here long before then, even though it was never videoed nor went viral on social media.ā
Jun 9
The horrific knife attack isn't new nor "alienā to NI. The Shankill Butchers were Belfast born & bred. They cut throats from ear to ear. Letās not engage in historical amnesia just because previous barbarity was never videoed nor went viral.
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Jun 9
The horrific knife attack isn't new nor "alienā to NI. The Shankill Butchers were Belfast born & bred. They cut throats from ear to ear. Letās not engage in historical amnesia just because previous barbarity was never videoed nor went viral.
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Sorry for missing the special occasion, but, happy (belated) birthday birthday twins @MatthewTaylorNI
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RT @supertanskiii: Domestic violence rates in Northern Ireland are VERY high, one in five of all recorded crimes.
A streamer from NI wasā¦
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An investigation has uncovered a series of alleged safeguarding failings linked to an east Belfast church where a man with 45 convictions was appointed as a lay pastor. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9rā¦
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From sentencing remarks of a High Court Judge in Belfast not even a week ago: āa brutal and frenzied attack that involved the use of a knifeā, so complex that pathology couldnāt determine the fatal sequence.
Almost 1/2 of murders in NI recently have a domestic abuse motivation.
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ALT Shaunagh looking very moody Exceptional lighting though
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