Social Workers Without Borders
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Social Work solidarity with people impacted by borders. Collaboration // Education // Solidarity
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📣 We are looking for a UK registered social worker to join our small but effective, friendly, and supportive staff team! 👀 Find out more about the role & apply here:
tinyurl.com/mr2sd6mt
🗓 Closing date: 9am on Mon 17th November
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UK registered social workers & SW students.. Want to stand in social work solidarity with people impacted by borders? We are holding an online info session about volunteering THIS SATURDAY 10-11:30am. We'd love to see you there! Find out more & register:
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/917-2/
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MiCLU
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More than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared in the care of Kent county council are still missing.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/01/more-than-50-child-asylum-seekers-still-missing-after-disappearing-from-kent-care
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Social Workers Without Borders
📣 We are looking for a UK registered social worker to join our small but effective, friendly, and supportive staff team! 👀 Find out more about the role & apply here:
tinyurl.com/mr2sd6mt
🗓 Closing date: 9am on Mon 17th November
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Social Workers Without Borders
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
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Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear. Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
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Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our response to the protests outside hotels - GMIAU
Statement from a group in Manchester who have lived experience of living in asylum accommodation responding to the racist far-right protests
https://gmiau.org/greater-manchester-hotels-group-response/
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📣 We are looking for a UK registered social worker to join our small but effective, friendly, and supportive staff team! 👀 Find out more about the role & apply here:
tinyurl.com/mr2sd6mt
🗓 Closing date: 9am on Mon 17th November
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We are looking forward to holding two of our core volunteer training sessions this Saturday! SWWB volunteers, there are still spaces available. Book your spot via your Volunteer Login area. See you there!
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
2 months ago
❗ACT NOW At the time of writing, you can still submit refugee family reunion applications. However new applications will not be considered after 3pm on Thursday 4th September. If you're eligible + planned to apply, we urge you to submit an online application as soon as possible, before this time.
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Changes to Refugee Family Reunion - GMIAU
The Home Secretary has announced that refugee family reunion applications will be suspended. Act now if you need to make an application.
https://gmiau.org/refugee-family-reunion-september-2025/
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
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1/ 🧵Family reunion is one of the only safe routes for refugees to reach the UK, yet the Gov is making it harder. This shortsighted policy will only force people onto dangerous journeys to be with their families when the safe, legal option is taken away.
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UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country
Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/01/uk-to-make-it-harder-for-refugees-to-bring-family-members-to-country?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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📣 New resources for social workers! The brilliant
@gmiau.bsky.social
has launched 2 key, practical guides to support social workers helping children in care with resolving their immigration status:
tinyurl.com/5shm8smz
LAUNCH & FREE TRAINING EVENT: Thurs 11th Sep 10-11:30am:
tinyurl.com/6a35yr3s
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
3 months ago
🚨 New guides launched! Two practical tools for social workers supporting children in care with immigration + citizenship issues. 🔗 Download both here:
gmiau.org/new-guides-f...
🗓️ Free online launch & training – 11 Sept, 10am:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gmiau-chil...
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We have a shop! Check out SWWB t-shirts, tote bags and stickers:
social-workers-without-borders.teemill.com
Wear your solidarity.
#WeAreSocialWorkersWithoutBorders
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Social Workers Without Borders
📣 Free online, participatory training session for social workers & other local authority staff 🛣️ Children's journeys to secure immigration status and British citizenship 📆 Monday 30th June 11am-1pm 🗣️ SWWB &
@supportkind.org
Find out more & book your place:
tinyurl.com/mr44whjp
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Children's journeys to secure immigration status and British citizenship
Free online training for social workers
https://tinyurl.com/9snwe82k
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📣 Free online, participatory training session for social workers & other local authority staff 🛣️ Children's journeys to secure immigration status and British citizenship 📆 Monday 30th June 11am-1pm 🗣️ SWWB &
@supportkind.org
Find out more & book your place:
tinyurl.com/mr44whjp
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Children's journeys to secure immigration status and British citizenship
Free online training for social workers
https://tinyurl.com/9snwe82k
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TODAY 12-1pm:
actionnetwork.org/events/child...
⚖️Children’s rights in the context of parental deportation: Pushing back on the attack of Article 8 📆 TODAY 12-1pm 🗣️ SWWB &
@biddetention.bsky.social
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https://actionnetwork.org/.../childrens-rights-in-the..
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Social Workers Without Borders
Next week, two SWWB webinars are coming your way as part of the
#StandUpSpeakOut
series, and we would love for you to join us! 🙅🏽 Social Work Resistance to the Hostile Environment 📆 Weds 11th June 7-8pm 🗣️ Members of SWWB Campaigns & Education groups Book your spot:
tinyurl.com/mrxvfa5c
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Social Work Resistance to the Hostile Environment
The Hostile Environment is a safeguarding risk! As a social work-led organisation, SWWB are deeply concerned about how the language of “safeguarding” has been weaponised to justify harmful, punitive i...
https://tinyurl.com/mrxvfa5c
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Migrants Organise
5 months ago
📢 Hundreds of you have joined us for the
#StandUpSpeakOut
series - we need all public sector workers to stand up and speak out in solidarity with migrants! The webinar series draws to a close this month - sign up for the last sessions! Sign up
sknb.org/take-action/...
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Next week, two SWWB webinars are coming your way as part of the
#StandUpSpeakOut
series, and we would love for you to join us! 🙅🏽 Social Work Resistance to the Hostile Environment 📆 Weds 11th June 7-8pm 🗣️ Members of SWWB Campaigns & Education groups Book your spot:
tinyurl.com/mrxvfa5c
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Social Work Resistance to the Hostile Environment
The Hostile Environment is a safeguarding risk! As a social work-led organisation, SWWB are deeply concerned about how the language of “safeguarding” has been weaponised to justify harmful, punitive i...
https://tinyurl.com/mrxvfa5c
5 months ago
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Social Workers Without Borders
British Association of Social Workers
5 months ago
Today, the House of Lords will begin its evaluation of the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill. We've been outlining to Peers why the government must use this legislation to abolish the NAAB, sharing with them this powerful evidence from
@gmiau.bsky.social
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gmiau.org/the-national...
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The National Age Assessment Board: children’s experiences - GMIAU
We support children who have had their ages assessed by the Home Office's National Age Assessment Board. They shared their experiences.
https://gmiau.org/the-national-age-assessment-board-childrens-experiences/
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June is here and we're in the final two weeks of this year's SUSO! This week: 🔢When age is more than a number: best practice for safeguarding unaccompanied children assessed as adults by the Home Office. 📅 Tues 3rd June 11am-12pm 🗣️
@justrightscot.bsky.social
& PAFRAS Book here:
tinyurl.com/3775e6w6
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When age is more than a number: best practice for safeguarding unaccompanied children assessed as adults by the Home Office.
Join JustRight Scotland and PAFRAS for a webinar where attendees will: Understand the implications of “age assessment” practices in the context of the hostile environment and immigration policies; ...
https://tinyurl.com/3775e6w6
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Social Workers Union
5 months ago
The Social Workers Union and
@basw-uk.bsky.social
have published a joint statement on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. Read it in full 🔗
swu-union.org.uk/2025/05/basw...
@scotssocialwork.bsky.social
@baswni.bsky.social
@baswcymru.bsky.social
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BASW & SWU statement on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank - SWU Social Workers Union
BASW and SWU jointly call for the immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza by the Israeli government and the full, safe passage of humanitarian aid by international humanitarian organisations.
https://swu-union.org.uk/2025/05/basw-swu-statement-on-the-worsening-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank
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This GMIAU blog is a vital read for understanding children's experiences of the National Age Assessment Board:
tinyurl.com/2j8d5xnm
📣 A hostile and harmful approach to non-independent assessments - the NAAB must be abolished. 1/
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Join us for this week's
#StandUpSpeakOut
sessions! Opportunities for Local Authorities 📆 Weds 28th May 10-11am 🗣️
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social
@carolewilliams.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4e2mx7t3
Learn about the power that LAs hold (and can share) to support migrant residents. 1/
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Opportunities for Local Authorities
This session will cover some of the many roles a local authority (council) can play in supporting migrant residents, with reflections on good practice as well as the systemic challenges that need to b...
https://tinyurl.com/4e2mx7t3
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We are deeply concerned about what the immigration white paper means for children and their right to a family life. Read our statement:
tinyurl.com/4yefhbuc
"The Government need to be clear that ‘public interest’ also includes promoting family life, the care of children, and children’s rights."
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Social Workers Without Borders statement on the Government White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System, May 2025’: Children and their right to a family life - Social Workers Without Bor...
This Labour Government have concentrated their narrative and their action on immigration enforcement and removing people from the UK. This means carrying out enforcement action against people in our c...
https://tinyurl.com/4yefhbuc
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Coming up this week on
#StandUpSpeakOut
:
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
✅ Good practice for using community interpreters 📆 Weds 21st May 12-1pm 🗣️ Manuel Bravo Project Book here:
tinyurl.com/3mwr4e5c
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Good practice for using community interpreters
This session explores techniques and best practice for working with vulnerable migrants through community interpreters. We will look at: - The role of the interpreter, boundaries and what to expect fr...
https://tinyurl.com/3mwr4e5c
6 months ago
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Social Workers Without Borders
Are you a UK based social worker or social work student who is passionate about human rights and social justice? Do you want to help increase people's access to justice? Join this online session to find out about our volunteering opportunities!
tinyurl.com/mr2h9sm5
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Social Workers Union
6 months ago
📢 Social workers: Join us in challenging the Spring Statements disability benefits cuts that will push an additional 250,000 into poverty. 🖊️ Sign our open letter to Chancellor Reeves by the 31st of May:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@basw-uk.bsky.social
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📢 Help us find our new trustees! Maybe it is you, or someone you know?
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
👀 We are looking for 4 new Trustees, to join us and help lead and shape the future of SWWB 1/
7 months ago
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Let's stand up and speak out together! Important practical SUSO sessions coming up in May 👇
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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Are you a UK based social worker or social work student who is passionate about human rights and social justice? Do you want to help increase people's access to justice? Join this online session to find out about our volunteering opportunities!
tinyurl.com/mr2h9sm5
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Social workers and Personal Advisors!
#StandUpSpeakOut
session designed especially for you is coming up.. Transitioning young people from Local Authority care to Adult Asylum Support 📆 Tues 6th May 11am-12pm 🗣️ PAFRAS Young Person Development Workers Book your spot:
actionnetwork.org/events/trans...
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Transitioning young people from Local Authority care to Adult Asylum Support
This session is designed for social workers and personal advisors working with former UASC who need to transition into the adult asylum support system. The session aims to provide attendees with: 1. ...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/transitioning-young-people-from-local-authority-care-to-adult-asylum-support
7 months ago
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📢 Help us find our new trustees! Maybe it is you, or someone you know?
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
👀 We are looking for 4 new Trustees, to join us and help lead and shape the future of SWWB 1/
7 months ago
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Public Law Project
7 months ago
Tomorrow, speakers from PLP will be discussing AI and Automated Decision-Making in the immigration context (as part of Stand Up! Speak Out! from
#SolidarityKnowsNoBorders
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@socialworkerswb.bsky.social
@migrantsorganise.bsky.social
📆 Thurs 24th April 11am-12pm
tinyurl.com/bddra3dw
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Introduction to AI and Automated Decision-Making in the Immigration context
This session will provide an introduction to AI and Automated Decision-Making (ADM) as used in the public sector, with a particular focus on the immigration context. We will discuss some of ways in wh...
https://tinyurl.com/bddra3dw
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We stand in solidarity with Fatou, her family & friends. Please sign & share:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
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7 months ago
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We're looking forward to next week's
#StandUpSpeakOut
sessions! 🧱 We Built this City: Organising in the Housing Crisis 📆 Weds 23rd April 11am-12pm 🗣️
@migrantsorganise.bsky.social
Housing Justice Group Book your spot:
tinyurl.com/3cm6kpsk
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We Built this City: Organising in the Housing Crisis
This session will explore community organising as a strategy to tackling housing issues, featuring examples of campaigns and organisations that use this approach. You will hear first-hand testimonies ...
https://tinyurl.com/3cm6kpsk
7 months ago
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Join us for
#StandUpSpeakOut
April sessions! The hostile environment is a safeguarding risk! We must not be complicit with harmful immigration policies. Let's build our knowledge and social work solidarity.
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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📣THIS WEEK on the
#StandUpSpeakOut
free online training series 📆 TOMORROW 12-1pm
@right-to-remain.bsky.social
Knowledge is Power:
tinyurl.com/ycxbd5h7
- A basic overview of the asylum system & current law and practice - Intro to the RtR Toolkit - The difference between legal advice & legal support
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Knowledge is Power
This session will cover: - Basic overview of the asylum system and current law and practice - Introduction to the Right to Remain Toolkit: how to use and share it - The difference between legal advic...
https://tinyurl.com/ycxbd5h7
8 months ago
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Social Workers Without Borders
Migrants Organise
8 months ago
#StandUpSpeakOut
🚀 Over 140 of you joined us for our launch, and we are so energised! Politics exists beyond the walls of Westminster, its in our streets, communities, unions and beyond. It's time for us to get loud in our commitment for migrant justice ✊ 👇
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⏰There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's
#StandUpSpeakOut
online launch event 12-1pm! 🗣️Join us this World Social Work Day for an insightful & inspiring panel discussion on 'The Power of Words: Reframing the Migration Narrative in UK Politics' Sign up here:
tinyurl.com/mryx6tyk
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Migrants Organise
8 months ago
🚀Update! We’ve had a phenomenal response to our
#StandUpSpeakOut
solidarity training series. 🔥With NEW sessions added, we've now got 24 info packed sessions; from organising on housing justice, resisting an immigration raid to legal aid 101 Check it out ➡️
www.sknb.org/take-action/suso/
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Social Workers Without Borders
✨Join the leading UK social work charity working for migration justice✨ We are excited our SWWB staff team is growing! Find out more & apply via Charity Jobs here:
tinyurl.com/yc6b95ds
Our Operations Manager will work closely with our Managing Director to ensure SWWB operates effectively.
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Migrants Organise
9 months ago
🔥 New sessions alert! 🔥
#StandUpSpeakOut
is back with over 20 info packed sessions to build migrant solidarity. From narrative change to housing justice - join over 20 online sessions from march- June 2025. Full info and sign up ➡️
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
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✨Join the leading UK social work charity working for migration justice✨ We are excited our SWWB staff team is growing! Find out more & apply via Charity Jobs here:
tinyurl.com/yc6b95ds
Our Operations Manager will work closely with our Managing Director to ensure SWWB operates effectively.
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Our first take on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill released yesterday. To be continued ...
freemovement.org.uk/what-is-in-t...
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Migrants Organise
9 months ago
🚀Stand Up, Speak Out! is back & we're on a mission to build new narratives of dignity and solidarity. Racist, hostile narratives on migration are emboldening the far right & bearing directly on our communities. It’s time to tell a different story. Join the launch:
actionnetwork.org/events/suso2...
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We have signed this joint letter with
@afterexploitation.bsky.social
"We implore political actors to refrain from weaponising the experiences of victims and survivors, and instead keep their focus on the most urgent challenges facing all survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation at this time"
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10 months ago
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📣 Social workers & students, come along, hear about our work, join our community of social workers! Book your spot here:
tinyurl.com/ym9ce962
Please share widely!
10 months ago
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We really enjoyed delivering a session for social work students at the University of East Anglia on Monday! Especially nice for our Educators Mercy & Naomi to be back teaching at the uni where they both qualified! 😃🎓
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We recommend reading this blog from
@swu-uk.bsky.social
👇 "The Hostile Environment turns those in our public services into border guards, it tears our communities apart and entrenches racism."
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tinyurl.com/4axcvz36
“The social work team accused her of misleading them about her circumstances and said she may not even have been Mazeedat’s real mother.” This tragedy lays bare how the hostile environment underpinned by a punitive, racist and suspicion-driven ideology, infiltrates social work.
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Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa
https://tinyurl.com/4axcvz36
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Andy Jolly
11 months ago
Very similar issues to the 26 other reviews into child deaths where the child had NRPF
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Children and families with no recourse to public funds: Learning from case reviews
This paper reviews 26 reports into deaths and serious abuse of children in families who were subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) rule. Our analysis illustrates vulnerabilities caused by...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/chso.12646
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