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I met with Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and James Palmer, Director of Specialist Services for NHS England on 17th March 2026. It was with some distress that the moment I left the room my trauma-addled brain realized that in all that time I failed to mention Alice’s inquest and prevention of future death (PFD) report. Wes agreed that I could send him the briefing notes I had made before the meeting in order to highlight anything else I had wanted to say but had

The UK government has just published draft guidance: ‘Keeping children safe in education 2026 (KCSIE)’ What’s not to like about a document with those intentions? Any initiative that aims to safeguard our children by addressing, amongst other things: child-on-child abuse, bullying, mental health concerns, self-harm, and suicide risk, risk of domestic abuse and children missing from education has to be a good thing. Right? Well, no. Not if you’re a trans child. Or the supporti

Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data. As the parent of Alice a trans woman who died by suicide in 2022 at the age of twenty, this story is of immense importance to me. One thing missing from the story, because it isn't a watertight fact, is that this figure is definitely an underestimate. Why? Alice died when she was twenty but she took a very serious ove

My day started early. The new electric radiator in my bedroom woke me, like an annoying alarm clock that I couldn't turn off, with volleys of irregular clunks and clicks as the heating process expanded the metal. Perhaps the current cold snap had brought on this change, something I hadn't noticed before, or maybe I was sleeping more lightly in anticipation of the day ahead. I was tired before I started, having spent the previous day at an inquest and the evening at a Gendered