Public Involvement Manager @arc_nwc | Founder #SafeByDefault | #coproduction #traumainformed #cse #dv #doula | Memoirist | All views my own
Liverpool, England
Joined December 2013
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🔁 All policy & campaign writing has moved to @safe_by_default:
➤ Digital safety
➤ Neurodivergent rights
➤ Safeguarding failures
If you followed me for that work, please head there.
Red Apples & @UnlockingBirth will now focus on #research #LivedExperience #PublicHealth #memoir
Parenting a teenager has brought me back to being 13, wanting independence and a life at sea.
I’ve written about spiritual coercion, adolescent agency and how making sense of abuse follows me into my work in research.
Finding words for what happened:
redapples.substack.com/p/fin…
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LOOK AND READ: DARK TOWERS (1981) The BBC's famous literacy strand for primary school kids threw up the occasional scary serial, and this classic - written by Andrew 'House of Cards' Davies - gave kids the heebie-jeebies. With songs by Derek Griffiths, too!
Can birth plans improve outcomes? A 2026 review of 6 randomised trials (1,419 women) found associations with more vaginal births, earlier breastfeeding & fewer neonatal intensive care admissions.
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An adult's redemption story can help make sense of a life already lived. But how does a young person, still imagining their future, interpret that story?
lived-experience mentoring, masculinity and whose voices shape the futures we imagine for boys.
redapples.substack.com/p/who… – at Wallasey, England
The Fonagy review does not find widespread ADHD overdiagnosis. It proposes “needs-led plus diagnosis”. But DLA and EHCPs are already meant to be needs-led, and diagnosis often brings little ongoing help.
The real test is sustained provision.
redapples.substack.com/p/a-d… – at Birkenhead, England
A child can love the adult who controls their world. That attachment can make harm difficult to name.
*When a Family Becomes a High-Control World* explores isolation, authority and the importance of relationships beyond the household. #cult
redapples.substack.com/p/whe… – at Wallasey, England
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How should England pay for social care? This article explores how Germany, Norway and Sweden fund care, highlighting lessons that could help inform future social care reform in England.
🔗 theconversation.com/how-shou…
#SocialCare #HealthPolicy #CareReform #DementiaCare
“Chaotic home” can sound like an explanation when it is only a label. What is happening for the child? What pressures is the family under? What support was offered?
I’ve written about the questions the phrase can close down.
redapples.substack.com/p/wha… – at Wallasey, England
Which harms would our planned UK under-16 social media ban prevent?
I tested the policy against serious safeguarding cases.
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EU proposal: ec.europa.eu/commission/pres… – at Wallasey, England
The Noah Donohoe inquest established how and approximately when he died. It exposed serious failures. It still could not explain why he entered that tunnel.
On maternal knowledge, institutional mistrust and the ethics of an unanswered death.
redapples.substack.com/p/the… – at Wallasey, England
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Menopause changes the brain in ways entirely distinct from changes seen in puberty and pregnancy, according to a new study. The findings could help explain how hormonal changes through life shape women’s brains
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At #arcfest today hearing how we in @arc_nwc are progressing in Year 2 of Phase 2 we'll be introducing our joint #PPIE strategy #coproduction #livedexperience great to see so many of our #research theme public champions – at Runcorn, England
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📢 Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster University
Interested in mental health research, co-production and public involvement? This PhD will explore how to increase diversity in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) across mental health research in the UK.
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📚 Great research needs great support.
Have you helped build research skills, confidence, infrastructure or opportunities within your organisation?
🏆 Celebrate your impact and apply today
✅ Apply now: healthinnovationnwc.nhs.uk/n…
📅 Deadline: 16 September
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Call for Abstracts: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
For a Special Issue on Institutional Betrayal
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While declining female sexual desire is frequently treated as a biological or hormonal issue, behavioral researchers point to adolescent development. Unequal early sexual experiences often condition the developing brain to associate intimacy with… dlvr.it/TV7lLS
What does “parental choice” mean when the specialist options only fit parts of the child?
#SEND placement, #SEMH, coercive practice, #EOTAS and the gap between a school saying it “can meet need” and a placement actually working. redapples.substack.com/p/whe… – at Wallasey, England
Does parental warmth protect children against parental harshness? An experience sampling study of disruptive child behavior academic.oup.com/chidev/arti… – at Aberystwyth, Wales
*The Great ADHD Myth?* raises legitimate questions about diagnosis and medication. But diagnosis ≠ prevalence, environmental modification ≠ causation, and no diagnostic MRI ≠ no biology.
Scrutiny matters. So does avoiding stigma. @MaxPemberton
open.substack.com/pub/redapp… – at Wallasey, England
