‘I have two jobs: one that keeps someone alive – and one that I get paid for.’ Unpaid carers like me save the NHS billions, says Laura Barnes in a blog for Carers Week in the UK – yet our rewards include burnout and poverty views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/06/i-ha...

‘I have two jobs: one that keeps someone alive – and one that I get paid for.’ - Views & Voices

Unpaid carers like me save the NHS £119 billion a year, says Laura Barnes of the We Care Campaign – yet our rewards include burnout, poverty, never seeing friends and being pushed out of jobs. In the ...

views-voices.oxfam.org.uk

📢 Job Opportunity! Southampton City Council is seeking a Research Officer to join the Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC). 📍 Southampton | 💷 £36,124 - £39,513 | 🗓️ Closes 27 Feb 2025 🔗 Apply now: https://buff.ly/4gHgxDm #HDRC #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth

born amongst the wheatfields she wandered to the sunflowers their song just begun 🌻 #ArtYear 💛💜💙

little 💙 chameleon who dreamed of spring 🌺 #artyear

Absolutely thrilled and delighted to have been announced as the winner of the Clair Fisher Research Impact Award at the @mariecurieuk.bsky.social conference today for our Domestic Abuse & Life-Limiting Illness (DALLI) study funded by @arcwessex.bsky.social & @mariecurieuk.bsky.social.

📣Take a look at The DALLI Toolkit, a novel resource co-produced with and for palliative care professionals, and those who support people with a life-limiting illness, to identify and respond to domestic abuse www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6Z... @arcwessex.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social

The DALLI Toolkit

YouTube video by Dalli Toolkit

youtube.com

Training people and professionals to spot the signs of coercive control is vital to tackling this problem. So many of us wouldn't be able to tell if it was happening to us, let alone anyone else. Please sign and share this petition, started by @strongerbeginnings.bsky.social

Petition: Require coercive control awareness training for some sectors

We call upon the UK Government and Parliament to implement requirements for coercive control awareness training for all professionals working in these sectors - healthcare, education, social services ...

petition.parliament.uk

#JanuArty #Pink little pink castle 🏰💖

Please support this incredible and inspirational woman in any way you can🙏

Samantha Billingham@strongerbeginnings.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you can, please give my three Facebook pages a like and follow SODA domestic abuse awareness page Samantha Billingham - domestic abuse lived experience speaker Stronger Beginnings They are all about my coercive control and domestic abuse awareness work that I do. Thank you ❤️

Tomorrow (weds 9) We launch the DALLI toolkit to help the most vulnerable people in our society to highlight domestic abuse www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/new-res... @nihrarcs.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @shaunlintern.bsky.social

New research helps spot the hidden signs of abuse in the most vulnerable

MEDIA RELEASE - EVENT WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2024“I think abuse like this is rife. It’s like this taboo – it’s whispered about but never spoken out loud, There’s the two things, cancer and domestic abuse...

arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk

Food insecurity affects ~10% of households in England. @arcwessex.bsky.social created a detailed mapping system to measure household food insecurity risk. 📌 It has been used by local authorities to support targeting of resources e.g. food banks www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/new-map... 🗺️ #ARCimpacts

A new paper from our Healthy Communities research team on #domesticviolence & #domesticabuse internationally & across age gender & sexuality www.frontiersin.org/journals/hea... "Globally, it is estimated that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men will experience DVA in their lifetime" @nihrarcs.bsky.social

Frontiers | Editorial: Domestic Violence and Abuse: increasing global and intersectional understanding

frontiersin.org