Maria @SWerMaria

Social worker in a Fostering Service, Feminist, originally from Kent, proud of all of the above! Views expressed are my own. Joined October 2012

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Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski

8 months ago

Dear @ShabanaMahmood, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

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Maria @SWerMaria

11 months ago

@JoeEHanley It's unacceptable- how can anyone be expected to have such long delays? Also how is it that the hcpc regulate multiple professions and they don't have delays and backlogs like this

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@CEPbarrister @EA_Chambers Congratulations, Lucy. I don't know you, but as a social worker in a fostering service, I know the level of stigma and oppression young people in care face, and you would have faced so many unfair barriers along the way.

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Maria @SWerMaria

a year ago

@SWConcern I have so many questions and concerns about AI.... but I worry that I am seen as a dinosaur when I try to articulate them!

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Maria @SWerMaria

2 years ago

@RobMitch92 I'm sorry for your loss Rob. It sounds like he was a special man.

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Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6

2 years ago

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.

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Maria @SWerMaria

2 years ago

@Melbourne_MUFC2 You can't sadly.... been trying to get in the waiting room for 15 mins and keeps just giving white screen and error messages!

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Maria @SWerMaria

2 years ago

@katewac6359 This is exactly me. The more I see people have the email, the more I check my email, just willing it to happen!

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Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi

2 years ago

Next time you read a book in the park as a woman, remember it’s now a privilege. In Afghanistan, you can’t read a book. In public. As a woman. The Handmaid’s Tale in 2024.

Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews

2 years ago

BREAKING: Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public.

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Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere

2 years ago

There is, yet again, a BBC presenter explaining to us what anti-migrant hate protesters say their point of view is on #BBCwato #wato. Nothing from any of the communities and groups targeted.

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Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor

2 years ago

Before everyone starts suggesting that maybe Kyle Clifford was ‘suffering from mental health issues’ which ‘caused him’ to tie up and shoot three women, let me shoot some facts here: 1. There is not a single mental disorder listed or described in the DSM which states that it causes murder 2. Not a single mental health charity would put their name to a public statement which stated that MH was associated with committing murder - in fact they would probably do the opposite 3. Men kill women because they want to 4. Men kill women because they get something out of it 5. Men kill women because of their misogyny and male entitlement 6. Men kill women because they enjoy it 7. Men kill women because we do absolutely nothing about the toxic, abusive, misogynistic, pro-violence and pro-abuse society we raise them in 8. Men kill women because there are virtually zero consequences and less than 2% conviction rate for domestic and sexual violence crimes People only claim men who murder are mentally ill for TWO reasons: 1. To defend the suspect legally, in order to claim insanity, so charges or sentences can be lessened 2. To psychologically distance ourselves from their actions, so no one has to accept that this is a social and systemic problem of violence and abuse - and we can all go on pretending that it was another ‘one-off’ caused by ‘mental illness’ End.

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Maria @SWerMaria

2 years ago

@Bornawoman99 @EmmaTurner12 They are so painful for me, and at one point I needed them annually, for 10 years. Then a couple of years ago, a nurse used a small speculum on me and it was better, not painless, but less so. I was grateful but also angry that over a decade of annual smears, no one suggested it!

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Maria @SWerMaria

3 years ago

@maryann1888 @SholaMos1 In my experience as a fostering social worker, Dr Shola perfectly sums up the issue; as a White parent of Black children, "I don't see colour" is dangerous. As a starting point he needs to educate himself on systemic racism & ensure his children have Black role models

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Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas

3 years ago

Sickened @ukhomeoffice have posted a promotional video about detaining asylum seekers to send to an unsafe country, Rwanda. This is tantamount to state-sponsored human trafficking & it's being done the day before elections for party political purposes. We are better than this.

Home Office @ukhomeoffice

3 years ago

BREAKING: The first people set to be removed to Rwanda have been detained.

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Maria @SWerMaria

3 years ago

@MartinBarrow I'm always happy when foster carers talk about fostering.... but I do think the comments about energy levels aren't helpful. It's a stereotypical assumption that older carers don't have as much energy..... and often, in my experience, inaccurate!

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Maria @SWerMaria

3 years ago

@SWConcern This is such a worry for me ethically. The data we deal with is so sensitive. The point you make about risk and what happens if done thing goes wrong rang very true

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Maria @SWerMaria

3 years ago

@itsmotherswork Always twice the recommended garlic for me, same for bacon. If a recipe has cheese, at least three times that!

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Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1

3 years ago

Diane Abbott (70) stood up FORTY-SIx times Speaker & Lindsay Hoyle ignores her! Adds insult to injury by letting others politicise racist attacks about her but silences her voice like she doesn’t matter! @LindsayHoyle_MP has to go! Black women are the most DISRESPECTED in Britain

Sky News @SkyNews

3 years ago

Diane Abbott has criticised the Speaker after he failed to call on her during today's Prime Minister's Questions, despite standing up 46 times. trib.al/GE04BSN

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Spectrum Gaming @Spectrum0Gaming

3 years ago

WE USED SCHOOL RULES, A BEHAVIOUR CHART AND STICKERS ON ADULTS - HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED (Written by Hanna, Clinical Psychologist at Spectrum Gaming) This year we tried out a new activity as part of the Autism in Schools train the trainer project. 1/12