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Features

Meet the Bristol author helping women write their way through early motherhood

Juggling early motherhood with a writing career can be challenging. Bristol author Emylia Hall, founder of Mothership, has helped hundreds of creative mums thrive.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with barrister Lucy Reed, on opening the secretive family courts to scrutiny

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Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

Features

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Project helping new dads cope with parenthood faces uncertain future

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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Cable Community News

Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

The Cable's investigations lead introduces our new long-term reporting strategy that puts impact at its heart – starting with a deep-dive on child prisons and exclusion from society.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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Area in Focus

South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Samira Musse on community power, how to consult with people, and giving kids confidence lessons

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Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Area in Focus

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Somewhere safe: how a modest cash boost could have a big impact on youth services in Kingswood

Services for young people are few and far between in South Gloucestershire's largest town. But its recently formed local council has set aside nearly half of its annual budget in a bid to change that.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

Parents warn ‘monstrous’ changes to autism referral rules for children will ‘cost lives’

SEND parents have slammed new rules that mean children must be in 'crisis' before they can be referred for an autism assessment in the Bristol area.

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Voices

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When it doesn’t pay to work: how universal free childcare would help us all

Women are being priced out of work. Making childcare truly affordable wouldn’t only benefit individual families, but society as a whole.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Reports

As the childcare crisis fuels inequality for women and children, mums are demanding action

The childcare system is at breaking point both in Bristol and nationally, with mothers being forced out of the workforce as costs rise and provision shrinks.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

People's History

The single parents from Bristol who changed women’s lives

What started as an interview in a living room became Single Parent Action Network, which tackled the stigma around single parenthood and campaigned on national issues.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

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More children in care are being housed outside Bristol as Covid fallout bites

The number of children in the care of Bristol City Council being housed in children's homes outside the city has nearly doubled since early in the pandemic.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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