Practice: Action in Social Work is recruiting for a new Resource Reviews Editor: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that there is “no starvation” in Gaza, a U.S. doctor who just returned from Gaza says the reality is undeniable and that malnutrition cases are everywhere, in newborn babies, pregnant women, even among the hospital staff.

Sounds like Teach First is getting the Frontline treatment: rebranding, more oversight, emphasis on diversity... In this previous article @robin2399.bsky.social and I argued that these changes were a tacit admission that Frontline had failed. Same can now be said of Teach First.

Petition for UK-based health, aid, and social care workers to sign urging the UK Government to take action over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza: www.change.org/p/support-un...

Last chance for any other UK based health, aid and social care workers to join the 1,000 others and sign this petition before it is sent off: www.change.org/p/support-un...

UK-based health, aid, and social care workers urged to sign Gaza petition in @socialworktoday.bsky.social ‬ www.socialworktoday.co.uk/News/uk-base... www.socialworktoday.co.uk/News/uk-base...

Social care and health sector call for ceasefire in Gaza new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

BASW & SWU statement on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank new.basw.co.uk/articles/bas...

Petition for UK-based health, aid, and social care workers to sign urging the UK Government to take action over the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza: www.change.org/p/support-un...

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CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW law4palestine.org/unified-call... #DiplomaticConvoyNow

"Selling our souls for the best & brightest". With international social care ("low skilled") recruitment again under attack, reposting my article highlighting how the Teach First model undermines professional capacity to challenge developments like this. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

New article out with John Devaney: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Call for special issue proposals for Practice: Social Work in Action journal. Deadline June 3rd. Please see under Special Issue information here: www-tandfonline-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/journals/cpr...

Great to see my (open access) research on social work podcasters in England now published in the first issue of Practice for 2025, alongside some other really vital research/articles. Thanks as ever to editors @robin2399.bsky.social @realchristiankerr.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⬇️ So this happened today! article39.org.uk/2024/12/12/a...

An insightful child focused commentary from Article 39.

The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four years. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/court-hears-...

We are appalled that an Israeli airstrike last night killed at least 30 Palestinians, including children, who were sheltering in a post office. Nowhere is safe for families in Gaza. They need a ceasefire. They need the UK to suspend all arms sales to the Government of Israel.

Word on the first was overwhelmingly positive/glowing and it is indeed chockablock with wondrous social work wisdom, as this review in Practice: Social Work in Action attests! 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our first post in our new online home 😀 With our friends at Mind, we have been granted permission to intervene in the upcoming appeal concerning the power of local authorities to deprive children in care of their liberty. More here: article39.org.uk/2024/11/15/c...

This is an absolute disgrace: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you still haven't seen the pledge for Palestine - social workers need to sign this.

Oh, and this one, where @robin2399.bsky.social and I discuss some key themes from the book on the Transforming Society podcast… t.co/DGl4eNgT6M

New paper led by @DrKatieEllis based on interviews with 15 prominent care experienced activists regarding their activism to achieve change in care systems. Thank you to all the participants for their insights. Available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scottish Government consultation on development of a universal definition of care experience. Closes 8 Jan 2025 consult.gov.scot/children-and...

Israel Attacks UN Peacekeeper Headquarters in Lebanon for Second Time in 2 Days https://truthout.org/articles/israel-attacks-un-peacekeeper-headquarters-in-lebanon-for-second-time-in-2-days/

Plaid Cymru MPs call for Israel boycott www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The South African anti-apartheid cathedral that’s now a pro-Palestine hub www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

And with a working link! trussell.org.uk/coh

⚠️ More than 10,000 children UK-wide have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit since the General Election. That's why alongside @cpaguk.bsky.social we're urging the UK Government to scrap this unfair, punitive policy in the Budget. Enough is enough. #AllKidsCount | #SWAgainstPoverty

The Social Workers Pledge for Palestine is now live and ready for signing; social workers, social care workers, social work academics & students, please sign www.sw4palestineuk.org

The Social Workers' Union has launched a survey for UK based social workers to help identify and highlight the work that social workers are doing and the pressures they are facing. Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/SWUITV The survey will run until 21 October 2024.

A year of genocide: decades of impunity ukpalmhn.com/resources/a-...

My new article writing for Yorkshire Bylines addressing Teach First's new Gen Z report, and how it is being used to blame the attitudes of a new generation of teachers for the failures to address ingrained problems in the teaching profession. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...

Excited to be able to announce that our research team have been awarded a £500k NIHR grant to research social work workforces in coastal communities in England. Looking forward to working with a great team led by Jermaine Ravalier. More info in press release: www.bucks.ac.uk/news/bnu-rec...

🌍 #ThrowbackThursday! In honour of Climate Change Week, we’re revisiting the BASW Conference: A Sustainable Future for Social Work. 🌿 During the event, the Sustainability in Social Work report was launched. You can read more about it here! 🔗 https://buff.ly/4ewAa0k #ClimateChangeWeek

The decision to withdraw funding allocated for social work apprenticeships is gravely concerning. BASW England has approached the government to seek clarity on whether a longer term funding scheme will be developed Read our response in Community Care ⬇️ www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/23/d...

Puzzling decision by new government to cut back on Social Work training through cutting the Apprentice scheme. Does anybody have access to govt policy papers on this? www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/23/d...

MacQueen PhD Scholarship in Social Work @ University of Edinburgh with two great supervisor led options. Application deadline 21st March 2024. Further details: sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospe...

The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Reclaiming Social Work - a play in three Acts, with the second Act removed www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/02/19/c...

Very interesting research from @robin2399.bsky.social et al: "available evidence tends to suggest the increased prevalence of for-profit residential child care providers has had an overall negative, rather than positive, effect... [&] appears to have occurred by default" www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/4/...

New article 'Charting the 21st Century Rise of For-Profit Residential Child Care' with Olga Ulybina and Lisa Holmes In Youth journal as part of special issue on Residential Care of Children and Young People lead edited by Graham Connelly Available: mdpi.com/2673-995X/4/...

Come and do a PhD with us on lone parenting in South Africa. Open to international candidates, please email before putting in an application. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospe... #AcademicSky #SocialWork #PublicHealth

MacQueen PhD Scholarship in Social Work @ University of Edinburgh with two great supervisor led options. Application deadline 21st March 2024. Further details: sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospe...

Several governments, including the UK's, have suspended funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, as starvation hits Gaza. Donate to UNRWA here: donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-don...