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Underway at #Lab26 with our brilliant panel and a packed room #medicalmisogyny

Heading to Liverpool? We're thrilled to be co-hosting an event at Labour Party Conference tomorrow with CoSRH - College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts CBE will chair a panel with CoSRH President Dr Zara Haider, Allison Gardner MP, and journalist Deborah Cohen to explore 'Medical Misogyny in the Tiktok Age: Rebuilding Trust in Women's Health'. We’ll be talking medical misogyny, hormone health, the pain gap, online health information and why so many women still feel dismissed, ignored or not taken seriously when they seek healthcare. 📍 Theatre 2, Youth Zone & Skills Hub @ The Deck 🗓 Monday 28 September ⏰ 11am–12pm We’d love to see you there!

AI has killed homework. We can’t let it kill thinking. Children are already using AI, while schools are still working out what they think about it. Teachers on Mumsnet describe pupils generating homework with ChatGPT, copying it out by hand and handing in identical answers. But parents are surprisingly clear-eyed about the distinction that matters: who did the thinking? Using AI to explain something differently, test your knowledge or point out what you’ve missed can be genuinely useful. Using it to do the difficult bit for you rather defeats the point. The challenge for schools isn’t going to be keeping AI out. It’s working out where it belongs, where it doesn’t, and how we make sure children still learn to think for themselves. My latest Substack:  https://lnkd.in/gK5nf9qn

This week I stood in front of a room full of people from the food industry and told them the worst job in Britain is deciding what’s for tea. They laughed. I wasn’t really joking. We’ve analysed nearly five million Mumsnet posts about food, dinner, money and fussy eating, alongside a survey of more than 1,000 parents. The biggest problem wasn’t cooking. It wasn’t even persuading a five-year-old to eat vegetables without treating it as an assassination attempt. It was deciding what to make. Read this week’s Substack on the mental load of feeding a family, why healthy intentions so often run into the realities of time and money, and why so much of it still falls to women. https://lnkd.in/e87KQJjX

Women struggling with their mental health after having a baby are too often left to work out whether what they’re experiencing is normal, how seriously to take it and where to turn for help. The right care can be life-changing. But finding it remains too much of a lottery, dependent on whether a woman recognises that something is wrong, manages to explain it in the right way and encounters a professional who listens. In my latest Substack, I look at what happens when that safety net fails, and why postnatal mental healthcare needs to be treated as a central part of maternity care. https://lnkd.in/guTpbmWM

Women struggling with their mental health after having a baby are too often left to work out whether what they’re experiencing is normal, how seriously to take it and where to turn for help. The right care can be life-changing. But finding it remains too much of a lottery, dependent on whether a woman recognises that something is wrong, manages to explain it in the right way and encounters a professional who listens. In my latest Substack, I look at what happens when that safety net fails, and why postnatal mental healthcare needs to be treated as a central part of maternity care. https://lnkd.in/guTpbmWM

Do you know how your child’s data is being used online? Privacy settings, targeted advertising and the information collected by apps, games and online services can be difficult for families to navigate. On Tuesday 15 September, Mumsnet is hosting a live AMA with Emily Keaney, Deputy Commissioner at the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK’s independent data protection regulator. Emily will be answering parents’ questions about children’s privacy, keeping children safe online and making informed choices about the digital services they use. She’ll also discuss the ICO’s Switched on to Privacy campaign. Post your question now, or join the AMA live from 7–9pm on Tuesday: https://lnkd.in/eAUAgG45 #OnlineSafety #ChildrensPrivacy #DataProtection

“He’s angry. I put him in prison. He’ll never forgive me for that. And he’s a vengeful f*cker.” The prison capacity crisis has forced the government into difficult choices. But has it made the right ones? Ministers have excluded some serious offences from the new early-release scheme. But domestic abuse is not among them. That leaves women facing the prospect of an abusive former partner being released after serving as little as a third of his sentence - and being asked to trust a probation system already struggling to manage the risk. In her latest Substack, Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts CBE asks whether women’s safety has been given enough weight in the government’s plans. Link in comments.

“If Burnham really intends to run towards the problems everyone else has avoided, the Child Maintenance Service is standing here waving.” Read Justine Roberts CBE's latest Substack about why the CMS is an obvious test of the Prime Minister’s promise to tackle the issues that Westminster has neglected. Link in comments.