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Aurora T
12 July 2021
I’m quite apprehensive about the job centres reopening. Always feel an almost sense of doom...
🗳 Benefits
🚧 Work
🌦 Politics & stigma
Dorothy T
12 May 2021
My son has Global developmental delays and low functioning autism, and his full-time career. So I'm not expected to look for work, which is Understandable, because life's hard enough...
Children's wellbeing
🗳 Benefits
🚧 Work
Georgie O
27 January 2021
Hi, what an you lockdown means to me? I lock down number three. Is back to square one again bum a kind of Community Arts business Food Bank sort of way, but there's covid strain being a little bit more easily transmitted out expecting children with had to go into a deeper form of lockdown...
🏫 School
🚧 Work
Gracie L
30 September 2020
Hello, I'm quite happy with the rules and restrictions. My children's school has done really well the communications been really good...
🚧 Work
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
Teddy W
30 July 2021
Covid Realities has given me a voice and made me feel like my voice and lived experiences are important. I have hope that sharing our experiences can make a difference in helping not just my own family but many other families now and continue into the future...
🚧 Work
👥 Covid Realities
Pearl N
27 July 2021
Universal credit should not force people to work if they do not have qualifications. I feel there should be working or education as an option not just working as it gives people the chance to get out of poverty and improve their lives...
🚧 Work
🌦 Politics & stigma
Meg T
21 July 2021
I felt organised but then I remarried a second time &sold my home to move in with my partner, which proved to be a poor decision on my part; my family structure collapsed due to the impact of Domestic Violence - 17 years ago...
👦 Single parenting
🚧 Work
💛 Health + disability
Nellie K
13 July 2021
‘Getting out’ has actually been a hot topic in our house the last few weeks. We are both facing change within the system...
🤹 Parenting
🚧 Work
🗳 Benefits
🍳 Getting by
Lois N
13 July 2021
Hi All, That’s a really inspiring story, Geoff. Hope little one gets better soon! I think my getting organised was deciding not to be silent about significant issues...
👥 Covid Realities
🚧 Work
⛑ Support
🌦 Politics & stigma
Jen S
09 July 2021
Hard. As a worker who's gone from having two full time wages to one at 80% and one at 50% (had to take a part time job after redundancy as its all I could get) it's hard to struggle but watch those who don't work and claim benefits get extra help when nothing financially has changed for them...
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🚧 Work
💸 Money + debt
🌦 Politics & stigma
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336
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108
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66
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🔙 2020 - looking back
18
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