Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social I really love the teachings of the Dalai Lama and the great spiritual masters around him. They make me feel good.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
To my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard’s mother.
Captain Cuthbert and Scat the Cat @scatthecat.bsky.social Illustrator, children's book author, comic strip artist. https://linktr.ee/scatthecat
Dr Matt Horton @drmatthorton.bsky.social Evaluation - Research - Widening Participation - Fair Access - Higher Education - Schools
@daniellepullen.bsky.social @daniellepullen.bsky.social 
@mildaambra.bsky.social @mildaambra.bsky.social 
The Fostering Network Campaigns @fosteringcampaigns.bsky.social The Fostering Network stands up for fostering, foster families, and children and young people in foster care. We campaign to make foster care better.
Unite Foundation @unitefoundation.bsky.social Working to ensure estranged and care-experienced students have a free, safe and stable #HomeAtUniversity - starting with our scholarship scheme.
Find Out More: unitefoundation.org.uk
Contextual Outreach Team @uol-contextual.bsky.social The Contextual Outreach Team offer programmes of activity aimed at raising the aspirations and achievements of young people.
contextualoutreach@leeds.ac.uk
0113 343 8471
https://contextualoutreach.leeds.ac.uk
Liz Routhorn @lizrou.bsky.social Head of Widening Participation and Outreach at London Metropolitan University.
Just getting set up here! 
Creative Life Story Work @creativelsw.bsky.social Helping care-experienced children and young people better understand their own life stories. Managed by the North East based charity, Blue Cabin (@BlueCabin.bsky.social).
Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social Blue Cabin helps care-experienced children build better, stronger relationships through artist-led creativity.
OffWestEnd @offwestend.bsky.social All theatre starts here. The official hub of over 150 OffWestEnd venues across London & beyond.
Our annual #Offies awards are the foremost accolades for independent theatre in the U.K.
Su Morris @sumorris.bsky.social Interested in Widening Participation & Social Mobility in HE; using research and evaluation to understand what works. Works @ King’s College London. PhD in psychology. Also here for theatre, cats, nature, photography, and cricket! She/her
Pentabus Theatre @pentabustheatre.bsky.social The nation’s rural theatre company. We tour new plays to village halls, fields & theatres, telling stories with local relevance & national impact.
Dr Artie Waterman @artiewaterman.bsky.social he/they 🌈 ~ social researcher ~ PhD in sociology of education ~ interested in estranged students, higher education, experiences of family, and social justice
creating cool stuff @heyartie.bsky.social
@drlouiseroberts.bsky.social @drlouiseroberts.bsky.social Reader in Social Work and Assistant Director CASCADE, Cardiff University
Professor Neil Withnell @neilwithnell.bsky.social National Teaching Fellow 2023. CATE 2022 winner with #creativeHE. SFHEA. Mental Health Nurse. Associate Dean Academic (Student Experience) @SalfordUni.
@arronioni.bsky.social @arronioni.bsky.social 
@fionaellison.bsky.social @fionaellison.bsky.social 
Niki Marangos @nicolakym.bsky.social FosterWiki Campaign Lead, Attachment Advocate, and Therapeutically Informed Educator. Championing the mental health of children, families, and workers within the care system. Huge dog lover 🐾🐕
Dr Eva A Sprecher @easprecher.bsky.social Research Fellow at @uclpals.bsky.social / honorary at Anna Freud.
Researching the mental health of #care-experienced young people. #Coproduction. Relationships for care-experienced people. #mixed-methods
Ex-Physics teacher.
Puffin Enthusiast
#crohns
Keith Bishop @youthworkerbish.bsky.social Foster Dad, Youth Worker, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy @birminghamnewman.bsky.social
Care Experience. Equally. Children’s Rights.
www.linktr.ee/youthworkerbish
Natalie Cowan @nataliecwn.bsky.social 
Prof Louise Taylor, PhD @louise-psychol.bsky.social Professor @Oxford_Brookes CPsychol, PFHEA, NTF, CATE winner, Co-founder of T-Fun, Senior Editor @JUTLP, Feminist, anti-racist, mum (was @L_Psychol)
Kirsty-Louise Card @kirstylcard.bsky.social Success over PCOS. Mackem. Digital Content Manager @ExpressandStar/Former Data Intern @CCIJ/Blogger @cystersgroup/ Ex @reachplc/ alum @BCUJournalism(she/her)
Buyera Bilal (CEO humanity and Lillah charity) @buyera.bsky.social Serving humanity through feeding the orphans and needy, constructing water wells, food packs, iftar meals, qurbani donations, emergency relief, Quran distribution, aqiqah and many others 📥+255780598366 for more information
Jon Gomm @jongomm.bsky.social Neuro-weird globe-trotting guitar-slapper
#music #acoustic #guitar #songwriter #fingerstyle
Marvin Campbell-Sharma @marvinjcampbell.bsky.social Management Consultant | Public Sector Transformation | Vice Chair @becomecharity.bsky.social | Food | Politics | Padel | Beagles | All views my own
Mark O'Mahony @themarkages.bsky.social Policy Manager at Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social and youth club trustee. Previously children's social care policy. Drinks coffee, eats cake, sings in choirs, usually in that order.
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Andy_Bilson @bilson.org.uk Emeritus Prof, mountain biker and Owls fan.
CoFounder of Parents, Families and Allies Network https://pfan.uk
Campaigning to transform child protection so children & families are not oppressed & social workers help them.
Prof. Michelle Lefevre @michellelefevre.bsky.social #socialwork academic researching #innovation, relationship-based practice, adolescent #safeguarding, #kindness, #socialcare. I lead @theinnovateproject.bsky.social -but gardening is my greatest love 🌈 https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
Anne Spiers @annes50.bsky.social Service Manager with Children First. My views are definitely my own!
Nick Cook @nickcookuk.bsky.social Director of Young People’s Services for @childrenssociety.bsky.social | He/Him pronouns | Trustee Rees Foundation | Curious about social change and tackling social inequality | Avid coffee drinker | Views all mine
Sharon Martin @sharonmartin.bsky.social 
ForThe100 @forthe100.bsky.social Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛
🌐 https://www.forthe100.org.uk/
ForThe100 Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3Q3GD9g
Lucy Barnes @cepbarrister.bsky.social ⚖️CEO & Co-Founder of Lawyers Who Care
⚖️From Foster Care to Pupil Barrister
⚖️Proudly care-experienced & neurodivergent
www.lucykatebarnes.co.uk / www.lawyerswhocare.org
Karen Laing @drkarenlaing.bsky.social 
Andrew R @fgdm.bsky.social #FamilyGroupConference & #LifelongLinks Team Manager, sailing, running, family 🌱
Please follow @familyrightsgp.bsky.social
Sarah Pure Insight @sarahpureinsight.bsky.social Founder & CEO www.pure-insight.org.uk a dynamic charity dedicated to empowering care-exp young people. Passionate about amplifying lived exp, we specialise in fostering collaborative relationships & designing transformative, place based community solutions
Jenni Willows @jenniwillows.bsky.social Bit of news, bit of sport, bit of arts, lots of nonsense, occasional cheese.
Dr Lynn Kettell @dr-lynn-kettell.bsky.social UK (NW) Health & Social Care researcher, mentor, wife, mum, nana, foster carer, volunteer with refugees.
#youngcarers #CYP
Eternal optimist, loving family and life; coffee, cat & nature lover.
Stage 4 #neuroendocrine cancer patient #NETs
Nu Know @nuknow.bsky.social HELLO! We're Nu Know!
We aim to improve adolescents' well-being and safety by making reliable support accessible to parents and carers.
Visit our website www.nuknow.co.uk to know more about us!
Dr Anita Mehay @anitamehay.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow & Health Psychologist. Expert in Health, Race & Criminal Justice System
City St George's, University of London | UCL | Central North West London NHS Trust
https://linktr.ee/AnitaMehay
Katie Ellis @drkatieellis.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Researching and advocating for children in care and care leavers.
Jo Petty @jopetty.bsky.social Campaigns & Participation Manager at Become Charity for Care experienced children and young people.
Interested in youth participation, children's rights, and reform of the Care system. In my personal life, I love being outdoors, swimming, and aerial hoop.
Roli @rolieche.bsky.social Anarchist./abolitionist We have nothing but each other. No War but Class War.
UK based, Child migrant from Peru. PhD drop out. Relationality/ Child rights + childism/youth work/violence prevention/public health. She/they.
Liam @notabilis83.bsky.social Bonsai, World Tea quaffing, Frenchie loving enthusiast. 🌴🍵☕🏳️🌈🇬🇧
"Close eye. Trust. Concentrate. Think only tree. Make perfect picture down to last pine needle. Wipe mind clean everything but tree. Nothing exists whole world. Only tree. Just trust picture."
Freyja Baber @freyjababer.bsky.social Social worker. Family Group Conference. Lifelong Links.
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
CELCIS @celcis.org Official account. We are CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection, based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. www.celcis.org
Chris Everett @chrisacts.bsky.social Actor, Voice Actor, Former Teacher. Morecambe lad living in Manchester. Extremely Northern, Working Class and proud! Opinions my own.
Rep: Atius Management
https://app.spotlight.com/4218-8943-4413
@robertbealemcr.bsky.social @robertbealemcr.bsky.social 
Chris Kidd @chriskidd.bsky.social 
@emilymoger.bsky.social @emilymoger.bsky.social Social worker. Relationship based practice. Aspiring systemic thinker. Helping networks help children and families.
Frederic Fovet @ffovet.bsky.social Learning - teaching - exploring - researching: Inclusion, Disability, accessibility, edtech, UDL,, ethnography of the student experience, Critical Pedagogy, sociology of school exclusion, EBD and ecological approaches to learner disenfranchisement
MichRay SW @michray-sw.bsky.social Proud mum, proud Social Worker. Interested in all things systemic,relational and restorative in social work practice. Interests include care experience, adoption, therapeutic life story work, neurodivergence.
Always looking to learn more 💜
Shelly Reed @shellyreed.bsky.social Participation Coordinator at Coram Voice | Care Experienced | YSJ Education MA |📍York/Wakefield
Alice Wilby @aewilby.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor @uninorthampton.bsky.social, PhD student in social sciences. Interested in education policy, tertiary education, pedagogy, widening participation and cats.
Lara Patel @larapatel.bsky.social Director of Children’s Services, Brighter Futures for Children, Reading. Mum, trustee for Pause. Looking for a space to share learning & spread a bit of joy 😊views my own
Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social Doing relational things for London Borough of Camden. Social work doctoral researcher, Universiy of Northampton. Alumni, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love
Andy Youell @andyyouell.com Higher education - data, systems and regulation | LFC | Eclectic musical adventures | Red wine | Saab | www.andyyouell.com
Holistic Health Visitor @holistichv.bsky.social 🇬🇧Holistic, inclusive, trauma-informed, neurodivergent experience and inequalities aware, paediatric Nurse, Health Visitor &researcher (with lived experience of ADHD, hEDS,CRPS & SEND parenting).
Think KPI (not ✅ box)- Keeping People Included!
Views my own.
Lisa Morrison @lisatmsa.bsky.social Trainer | Consultant | Public Speaker. Trauma, dissociation, wellbeing. Together everything is possible💛. Final yr Masters: ASW Well-being. Part time #NewScript @ppr-org. Lived exp rep 4 KyrieFarm
www.lisamorrison.co.uk
Michael Sanders @michael-sanders.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Director of Experimental Government, Policy Institute at King's. Director, School for Government at King's, Expert Advisor, Centre for Homelessness Impact. Chair, Nightline Association. Incorrigible Busybody. 
Dave Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @davespenceruk.bsky.social Happily retired maths academic.
Trustee of @baysar.bsky.social in Cumbria.
Made in Lancashire.
Married to @johnbarnes.org
Sarah @3girlstogether.bsky.social Lone disabled adopter with 2 teen daughters and 16 pets. Love craft, books, music and nature. Interested in SEND, disability rights and most importantly the impact of trauma on care-experienced youngsters
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
John Blake @johndavidblake.bsky.social Director, The Post 18 Project // Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy at University of Salford // musical theatre obsessive
@sarahblackmore.bsky.social @sarahblackmore.bsky.social Social worker. Adoptee. Exec Director @SocialWorkEng. Vice chair of @whocaresscot. Trustee of @younglivesvscancer Posts are my own views
Sam Turner @samtrner.bsky.social Associate Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Kinship. Interested in children and families, education, policymaking, participation and politics. Geordie and thrower of frisbees. Views my own.
Jordan Hall @jordanbhall.bsky.social Public Affairs for Family Rights Group. Interested in children & families policy, education, work & poverty, social justice. Stambassador for Action for Stammering Children. Teessider in London. Runner. 🏳️🌈
Jackie Powell @jacpow.bsky.social Retired university projects leader,with fair access and progression a priority. Interested in education and wider policy. Keen reader and gardener, love walking in the Peak District. Opinionated but listen to others. Everything doesn’t have to be serious.
Bez Martin @bezmartin.bsky.social Head of Participation at Anna Freud.
The Lundy Model Network Lead.
One sixth of #MessageToMargaret
Founder and Director #TheSeanchaíCollective - Learning through Lived Experience
https://www.seanchaicollective.org/
Prof Becky Muradás-Taylor @drbeckymt.bsky.social Prof of languages and linguistics, Director of programme design, LCS Uni of Leeds | Autistic, LGBTQ, adoptive parent | L2 phon, language education, 日本語, español 
Janet Boddy, FAcSS @janetboddy.bsky.social Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. Views my own. Latest book Thinking Through Family - #openaccess chapters https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Lorna Stabler @lornastabler.bsky.social Social work academic. Passionate about keeping children with the people who ❤️ them. Geordie in Wales. Proud feminist.
@stevo14u.bsky.social @stevo14u.bsky.social Progressive leftist. Unashamedly woke. I appreciate indie folk world and classical music. Based in Cardiff Wales. Internationalist. Enjoy walking in the countryside coastal paths and beaches. Try to meditate though Indian classical music helps . 
Donald Forrester @donaldforrester.bsky.social Social work academic- Director of CASCADE at Cardiff University, Research Director of Better Childhoods Centre, University College Copenhagen
Research what works and why in child welfare- particularly interested in direct practice and new methods
Kimberley Daphne @kimberleydaphne.bsky.social 🤍 PSYCH ⏱️ 🤍 holistic therapist 🩵 training PT 🤍 wanderlust 🤍 just being kind, beautiful and mystique in a dying world.
Rebekah Pierre @bekahpierre.bsky.social Deputy Director - Article 39
Care Experienced Author & Campaigner
OUT NOW - Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System as Told by People who Actually Get It:
https://unbound.com/books/free-loaves-on-fridays
@ekcharlie.bsky.social @ekcharlie.bsky.social Teacher, historian, medievalist. #cep
Helen @helenmew.bsky.social Juggle: books, chocolate, family & friends, sanity
Work: @thebelayfoundation.org.uk
Study: #Careers @ UWE
Volunteer: ITAV/AUK
Vegetarian, leftie, trade unionist, feminist.
Aim for wisdom, settle for witchery.
Elliot Davis @elliotdavis10.bsky.social Lives in south west England, interested in left wing politics. Professionally - children's social care, children-in-care, radical, trauma-informed, systemic approaches to social work. Plus football (MCFC), nature, climate & environment.
Sharon Laing @laingsj.bsky.social Social Worker 
Carri @heycarriann.bsky.social Psychotherapist passionate about helping fellow humans be the best of themselves
Care about Care leavers - Care Givers - end of life story therapist
reducing the silence of suicide
NAPAC
Human Rights for all
I absolutely live life whilst I am alive🌻
@bryp.bsky.social @bryp.bsky.social 
Celine O Connor @celineoc.bsky.social Social worker. Views my own. Reposts not endorsements
#NMMO
Dez Holmes @dezholmes1.bsky.social Director of Research in Practice | Strategic Director @ National Children’s Bureau. Trustee of Family Action.
All views & swearing my own. Expert in nowt (except maybe Transitional Safeguarding).
Actually, “ranting with references” is a job.
Jenny Jenkin @paretothinker.bsky.social leadership coach, HE commentator, cheerleader for university folk, fan of all things coastal.
#HigherEd #WomeninHE #GenderEquity
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-jenkin-paretothinking
Mike @mikeds9.bsky.social Care-experienced Social Work leader and PhD candidate (sumission March 2025).
@chloearkless.bsky.social @chloearkless.bsky.social 
Krisha Bainham @bainham.bsky.social Head of Widening Participation
University of Derby
Interested in widening participation and social justice
#WPDerby
Views are mine alone!
Yeti Deals @yetideals.bsky.social ✨ Amazon Associate sharing top finds! 🛍️ Home essentials, gadgets, and daily deals to make life easier and more fun. Follow for curated picks and exclusive offers! 👇
Sam Grace @sam-grace.bsky.social Highlander in Glasgow| Promise Ambassador @RenCouncil | Vice Chair @ ProjectChange | Trustee @ Unite Foundation | own views
Jo Staines @jostaines.bsky.social Professor, youth justice, children's rights and child welfare, co-chair of the National Association of Youth Justice, Bristol Bears fan, um, what else would you like to know?
Amy Gill @amygill.bsky.social #cep. intersectional-feminist-social-researcher. former teacher. knitter. mom w/ ADHD. cancer survivor. Almost-done PhD (oohc & early parenthood) & a love/hate relationship w/ academia. she/her | dual🇺🇸🇦🇺 | Meanjin
@jillohalloran.bsky.social @jillohalloran.bsky.social 
Siún Carden @s-carden.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry, 2024. Lecturer at UHI Shetland. Anthropologish. Teaches on MA Art and Social Practice etc. From (the real) Newcastle, County Down.
https://www.siuncarden.com
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.