‘When in doubt, call us’ results in many unnecessary reports, even in non-mandated environments. Though it can be an opportunity for advice, rather than making a report. Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...

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Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

“This is our home, our land and we have the right to be here and to live a life of peace in our homeland. So we stay! ..let me also say that we watch on the internet the protest and the demonstrations – and it makes us feel we are not alone”

Attitudes towards responsibility for child wellbeing is an interesting factor, picked up in this study: the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and assessment of risk of future maltreatment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Justin Tipa catefully and cogently laying out the boundaries, nature and aims of rangatiratanga from a Ngāi Tahu perspective. understandably smarting at the inference but many excellent points. ‘We are not the radicals’ ngaitahu.iwi.nz/connect-2/co...

The ‘granola nazis’ use the imagery and language of wellness to promote white supremacy aje.io/mfllhe

New Year’s resolution: only reviewing for the journals I’m either on the Ed board of, or actively editing. Mostly succeeding but my curious nature is wearing me slowly down.

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties oppose the widespread use of facial recognition technology, especially in public & quasi-public spaces like supermarkets. Sleepwalking into a surveillance state with back door police access to private cameras. #FRT #Privacy www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Palestinian teen on returning to his flattened home: “Our message to them, is we will live with dignity after our suffering” aje.io/s3c9de?updat...

I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely The need to do that hasn’t changed If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that

Is all IPV the same, and how do differences impact families and children of n the cp system? Check out this article at CHA doi.org/10.61605/cha...

In a week where yet again we hear teachers ‘need more training to recognise and report’, this great article appears, aiming for a more critical engagement. Full article: Nuance as Praxis for Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And a excellent example of how rigorous and useful unfunded research can be

Our systematic review of parents' experiences of child protection during & after pregnancy is freely available doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... Big thanks to contributors, original researchers, & participating parents! @emilyked.bsky.social @lisamorriss.bsky.social @karenb-2.bsky.social #academicsky

“What has happened in Gaza has shown us that there is no international law”. Staff for Palestine at Uni of Otago tried for a 2nd time yesterday to get the uni council to divest from the Israeli military. We were declined. Universities and all civil society institutions must act aje.io/rmvd1n

Some good news. If the moral argument doesn't work, maybe the bottom line will convince Israel to stop killing Palestinian children.

I am also skeptical of “evidence-based policy.” The idea is often predicated on indifference to the reality that the production and use of evidence is endogenous to political processes. Evidence is important. But it is fundamentally political. So, whether & how it gets used is a matter of power.

"This decision defunds Māori research and researchers by stealth" Tahu Kukutai in my latest for @science.org on cuts to the Marsden Fund, NZ's only fund for "blue-sky" research; features Paul Spoonley, @nicgaston.bsky.social et al www.science.org/content/arti...

Full article: Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We urgently need to Make Object Permanence Great Again - because this government seems fixated on the notion that problems cease to exist if you don't look at them, and stop everyone else from even trying.

Great demo in London today. #FreePalestine

Congratulations @drmuireann.bsky.social and co authors on this new publication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Public health, decolonial… all alternative models of child protection have workforce implications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gotta love Adrian Orr’s turn of phrase ‘success has a thousand parents’. You can tell his wife is an author.