Head of Multiple Disadvantage at bvsc, systems need to be fit for purpose, no one should be disadvantaged accessing services they need. MCFC seasoncard holder.
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HARPAL BATH retweeted
It's brilliant to see record level of Sikh representation in Parliament.
It was the privilege of my life to be the first Sikh woman elected to UK Parliament. Congratulations to all my new @UKLabour colleagues - I look forward to working together.
HARPAL BATH retweeted
📣 On 8/2/24 at 1pm @BVSC will host an online @BhamCityCouncil budget briefing for the #VCFSE sector.
🗣️ We’ll hear updates and have the space to ask questions, share views, & propose collective solutions to bring #BirminghamTogether
👉 REGISTER: bit.ly/BCCbudgetbrief
If it ain't broke don't fix it but if it is you need to look at alternative options
Drug consumption rooms could save 1000s of UK lives, study finds,👇
Facilities could also slash disease transmission & cut pressure on ambulance callouts & hospitals
“OPCs can help save lives in an urgent & growing UK drug-death crisis” @GWshorter
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theguardian.com/society/2024…
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Recommend #fixingbritain @BBCRadio4 Louise Casey talking tackling rough sleeping. How they proved it can be fixed in the late 90s and how that ‘fixing’ was undone over last decade. ‘A symbol of our fraying society’. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tr2…
Excellent research highlighting that homelessness is not just a housing issue but everyone's business and the need for joined up commissioning
#HousingFirst2023 final session presentation of new Housing First research. Final panel our own @SophieBoobis plus @ChrisBrillEL @sjohnstonex @ExpertLink2019
New evidence of the long term impacts of Housing First
Great start to day at #housingfirst2023 @BVSC ....looking forward to be part of panel discussion this afternoon
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Happy Independence Day Cyprus! 💛 🇨🇾 💚
📷 @theislanderstories
#visitcyprus #lovecyprus #cyprusindependenceday #cyprusflag
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Need that extra bit of support?
No matter what you’ve been through, there’s help out there for you. @Route2Wellbeing can connect you with charities and community groups that specialise in the support you need.
Try today at r2wbirmingham.info
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Looking for a new #job in the #charity sector in the #WestMidlands?
Find all the latest #vacancies on our website:
bvsc.org/bvsc-charity-jobs-w…
#jobsearch #HIRINGNOW
Not a fan of Talk TV bt this is a conversation everyone should listen to, well done @Cranstoun_org for highlighting @PeteKrykant_OPC
"This isn't anything that's controversial... things like safe (consumption) spaces, things like drug checking & diamorphine assisted treatment are common place"
@MegJ4289
1st thing I saw touching down in 🏴 from visiting Copenhagens Overdose Prevention Centre, for over a decade they've been saving lives in Denmark & now have multiple sites & as Meg says these sites are not radical they're now in 17 countries, Switzerland introduced them as far back as 1986.
@Cranstoun_org have the blueprint & ability to deliver these sites now alongside the much needed health & welfare services that many desperately need.
HARPAL BATH retweeted
📺Our Director @MegJ4289 spoke to @drdavidbull & @nicolathorp_ on @TalkTV yesterday to welcome the @CommonsHomeAffs report on drugs.
The measures recommended in this report save lives and reduce harm all over the world, we need to implement them in the UK with urgency.
👇Watch
HARPAL BATH retweeted
I'll be joining @SangitaMyska on @LBC radio in 10 minutes to discuss Overdose Prevention Sites & the Home Affairs Committee recommendations that are again ignored in the face of a UK drug death crisis with further concern now abt synthetic drugs that can be 100 times stronger now in the UK. @Cranstoun_org recommend and are ready to deliver these sites now.
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Whenever the evidence is properly consulted, the sensible pragmatic response includes OPCs, DAT, diversion…
Good to see the launch of the HASC report today. Recommendations we can get on & deliver right now with government backing
news.sky.com/story/safe-plac…
Man City ruining football :)
HARPAL BATH retweeted
Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936. The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.
After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.
"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.
My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.
It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.
If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.
That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer. Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.
And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship. I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.
I think I might believe in God. And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.
Your brother, Luz"
