Welcome to our new visiting research fellow, Dr Anna Melke! Anna is a researcher based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She primarily works at the Research and Development Unit of the Gothenburg Region, an association of thirteen local governments covering one million inhabitants. 🧵1/1

This evening, to mark World Down Syndrome Day, buildings around the UK will change their lights to blue or blue & yellow tonight 💙💛 This is a photo from Leeds City Council.

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! Last year's video but I love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HpL...

It's World Social Work Day!🌈 Today, like every day, we honour the impact of social workers around the world. Thank you to all the social workers out there👏❤️ #WorldSocialWorkDay2025

Take this headline, this framing, and fire it into the fucking sun

New open access article with Yuval Saar-Heiman, Marina Lalayants and @annagupta.bsky.social on parent advocacy and the important contribution of parents with lived experience in child welfare. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An epic read for Monday: Ella's Human Rights Claim www.georgejulian.co.uk/2024/12/16/e... I spoke with @ellychapple.bsky.social about Northumberland Council unlawfully issuing care proceedings and the impact on their family Also #MotherBlame #LearningDisabilty #DeafBlind #HumanRights #JusticeforLB

Are you interested in a career in #socialwork? Are you interested in a move to the UK to study and work? Join us for an info event for social work courses at the University of Sussex for prospective USA applicants. www.tickettailor.com/events/unive... #studyabroad #careerprospectsabroad

⏫ @michaelfullert3.bsky.social @nancygedge.bsky.social @sharonlsmith.bsky.social @hazellroux.bsky.social @swj1.bsky.social @jldamman.bsky.social @squarepegtraining.bsky.social @giselle2914.bsky.social - would you consider sharing the above with your networks? tinyurl.com/safemobility

Hot off the press! Our new paper challenges social care services to rethink what 'value for money' might mean if it were young people setting the outcome indicators. Open access at doi.org/10.1177/0017.... By @michellelefevre.bsky.social and twitter.com/Lisa_Holmes_...

The Innovate Project has now jumped ship from the bird place to connect on all matters related to social work and social care innovation and adolescent safeguarding - looking forward to connecting! You can learn more about us at www.theinnovateproject.co.uk and from @michellelefevre.bsky.social

CSWIR is on Bluesky! The Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research is a community of professionals, students, academics, and people with lived experience dedicated to social work research and practice. We are based in the @sussexfss.bsky.social at the University of Sussex🌳🎓

We will post announcements about our research and events on here🔊📅 You can sign up to our mailing list here: forms.gle/ydhgXBZPKcTR... And check out our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/socialwork/c... Or just drop us a DM!🙂

Check out our new open-access paper on #TransitionalSafeguarding by me, @jldamman.bsky.social Gillian Ruch & Susannah Bowyer based on theinnovateproject.co.uk & part of a @sussexcircy.bsky.social special issue. Read it at: ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Published today under the leadership of the amazing Dr Nathalie Huegler. Our study findings from the Innovate Project on local developments aligned with Transitional Safeguarding doi.org/10.1177/0017...

Looking forward to ECSWR 2025 in Munich - presenting on parent advocacy with fab colleagues – Marina Lalayants, Yuval Saar-Heiman & Anna Gupta. ‘Democratizing support through parent advocacy: Exploring multi-dimensional supports delivered by parents with lived experience of CPS’ See you there!

There’s a lot of tokenism in lived experience participation. Whether it’s requests for unpaid keynotes “for the exposure!”, or politicians stopping by for a photo opp before disappearing, much needs to change. Pleased to be 1 of 15 care experienced people to contribute to this paper. Open access 👇🏼

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....