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- ROTTEN BOROUGH AWARDS: Croydon was named among the country’s rottenest boroughs for a SIXTH successive year in 2022 in the annual round-up of civic cock-ups in Private Eye magazine
I am sorry, but WOMEN make up 50% of the UK population. This topic is “Education”. 50% of school pupils and students are female. Where are the women speaking on this subject. Not to have gender balanced programme in this day and age on such a topic is a quiet act of violence silencing women.
I do not want to hear a man telling me “no dear, you are over-reacting”. Public debate is important in shaping understanding and inclusion. To exclude women is to deny them a voice in this important area.
This is Children’s Mental Health Week. It takes a village to raise a child. If we exclude the voices of 50% of the population, we are inevitably going to have problems….