A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

The folly of recruiting people from outside an organisations' usual demographics while practices remain tailored to the requirements of the usual suspects. #Charities

Inspirational story of a city in which schools - & therefore the opportunities presented to children - were segregated by families' income, & how a community worked to create greater inclusion, in the face of determined & well-resourced resistance #SocialMobility #Brighton

"421 landowners...control half of all privately owned rural land in Scotland... most concentrated...private land ownership in Europe... Without radical measures... [that's] an issue for locals who want a piece of Scotland to call their own"(@xaviergreenwood.bsky.social) #SocialMobility

"graduates from non-graduate families fare better than their peers without a degree, but they often do not catch up with graduates from graduate families. This demonstrates both the power & the limits of higher education in terms of #SocialMobility". #WideningParticipation

Interventions intended to improve inclusion & belonging achieve the opposite: "support structures for those specific groups...are characteristic first, student second. You need special help because you’re different" (@jimdickinson.bsky.social) (Not just confined to higher education!) #HR, #DEI

Exploding use of AI means "employers [are] drowning in applications" & applying filters, incl "one employer which only posted its vacancy on the job board of an elite university... some of these are in conflict with the goals of widening accessibility" #SocialMobility #HR #Hiring

CAMPAIGNING JOB ALERT: Green New Deal Rising are looking for an Organiser (£36,307 - £39,510). Closing date Mon 17 Nov, 9am. Apply here: https://www.gndrising.org/jobs/organiser/ Submit your news to our Community Noticeboard here: https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/connect/community-noticeboard/

Ways in which the super rich are fucking things up for the rest of us, #6,810:

The SMK Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey provides insight and evidence to improve your practice and support your work. Take the survey by 3rd December. https://forms.office.com/e/M2L9N2HUyZ #SMKCampaignerSurvey

"Young degree apprentices are much less likely to be disadvantaged than both similar-aged Russell Group undergraduates & the wider undergraduate cohort" #WideningParticipation #Apprenticeships #SocialMobility

“The wave of redundancies & budget cuts across the charity sector are already disproportionately impacting black & brown staff... concentrated in lower pay grades with less ability to influence decision-making” ( #CharitySoWhite )

If they don't implement significant policy changes, this Government will preside over the sharpest increase in child poverty by any Labour Government in the last 60 years ⤵️ Read 'No half measures' 👉 buff.ly/04eBps0

We are recruiting a few different new roles @Moreincommon_ UK, if you're interested in any of them and think you'd enjoy our work do take a look. www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/

Vampiric levels of avarice. www.ft.com/content/47ac...

Vampiric levels of avarice. www.ft.com/content/47ac...

CAMPAIGNING JOB ALERT: Alzheimer's Society is looking for a Campaigns and Mobilisation Officer (£31,018 - £34,464) to deliver campaigns locally and nationally. Closing date 11 Nov 2025. https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/connect/community-noticeboard/

CALLING ALL COMMS PROFESSIONALS We're #hiring a Media and Communications Manager to lead on our external media and digital outputs 💵 £52,115 ⌛️Deadline: 9am Tuesday 25 Nov 👔 Interviews: 9 Dec 🏢 Hybrid (2 days a week in our Westminster office) Apply now ⤵️ www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/

🚨 Wide gaps in waiting times for a SEND diagnosis by socio-economic background 🚨 Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents. More from our work on the SEND system 👇 www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

CAMPAIGNING JOB ALERT: We Own It looking for Communications and Campaign Support (£32,690 pro-rata) by  Sun 9 November 2025. Apply here: https://weownit.org.uk/about-us/vacancies Submit your job opening to our Community Noticeboard here: https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/connect/community-noticeboard/

📉 Calling all chart enthusiasts! 📢 The Resolution Foundation is hiring 👀 This is a rare opportunity to join our senior leadership team and take forward our work on productivity and growth. Applications close in a little over two weeks ⤵️ buff.ly/x40DZV1

"Work for a charity / nonprofit & interested in recruiting from a wider talent pool? (We want to know if a proposed charity sector apprenticeship initiative would work for organisations like yours). Would someone be willing to have a confidential chat?" www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #Charities

📣 New vacancy: The post-holder will help establish the new research programme on the Economics of Environmental Inequality. They will conduct research on how climate change and policy interact with and reinforce existing social and economic disparities. Apply by 13 November ⬇️ buff.ly/zs3T0hj

At the last count, 75% of #Labour members were ‘ABC1’ (vs 57% of the public). Calls for ‘party democracy’ are, in effect, calls for middle-class control. @lucympowell.bsky.social

🚨 WE'RE HIRING! Come and join the UK's most influential think tank. We are recruiting for: - Chief of Staff and Senior Research Fellow - Senior Research Fellow, IPPR North Find out more here 👇 www.ippr.org/jobs

"people are feeling angry & distrustful of mainstream political institutions...there’s an opportunity for [ #charities & nonprofits] to be able to channel civic voice in more authentic, meaningful, participatory [...] ways (@dhnnjyn.bsky.social of @neweconomics.bsky.social) 👏 💯 BUT... [1/3]

We're hiring!💥 IPPR North are looking for a senior researcher who has big ideas for the future of our regions. Join us at this pivotal time for our economy and democracy. Based in Manchester, apply by 31st October. www.ippr.org/jobs/senior-...

“teacher evaluations [have a] systematic bias favoring higher income & female students”, with consequences for who gets into which university. #WideningParticipation #DEI #SocialMobility

Despite talk of widening participation in higher education of people from lower-income backgrounds, maintenance loans typically don’t cover living costs & students are - by design - often excluded from hardship funds available to non-students 👇

“when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most... to become much more supportive of redistribution"

“When students stumble, the architecture designed to retrieve them from failure taxes disadvantage”, leaving students “ineligible for maintenance funding…no support for rent, bills, or food for months” A particular risk for those “caring for a parent, working nights, or suffering mental ill-health”

We don't see any reason why landlords and lawyers shouldn't pay the same tax rate as their tenants and clients.

No bushes were beaten around in the naming of this publication @camraofficial.bsky.social

Want to up your digital campaigning game? Sign up for the 16th Oct workshop, facilitated by More Onion's Jess Day. https://smk.org.uk/training-events/digital-campaigning/ #campaigntraining

The deadline to submit evidence to inform what action the Government should take to put an end to unpaid internships is this Thursday ⤵️

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, steps like a goose etc. www.ft.com/content/cfda... #cpc25

How do those working for fairness and inclusion in the workplace differentiate hostile backlash from legitimate critique and challenge? If you’re at @conservatives.bsky.social party conference today, join us to discuss (Midland Hotel, Trafford, 6pm) #CPC25 [1/3]

"play a critical role in ensuring #refugees supported by Breaking Barriers access meaningful opportunities... lead employer outreach and partnership building" 👀

'Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme the move was not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions"... This will include powers to ban protests outright, the government said'.

Employee sacked because they needed 8 hrs sleep a night & wouldn't work past midnight. www.ft.com/content/550b... #HR

But the Green Party have one clear advantage over Your Party - while voters split on whether they see them as a serious party (38-39) that is far higher than for Your Party 16-50 and Your Party's splits have created a bigger opening for the Greens.

Letter from @enversol.bsky.social in Times today

Across the UK, people are organising to hold Reform UK to account and push back against their hate. Get involved 👇 secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/157246/...

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Are you the only person from a background like yours in your organisation? You might not be as alone as you think… www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #charities

If we want to solve the housing crisis without trashing nature, consider that our current housing stock would fit, twice over, in the space currently taken up by golf courses, which are a sustainability nightmare. #Lab25

“exploration of the gaps between the values & policy preferences of politicians & the public provides a clear & evidence-based framework for understanding the seismic political shifts we’ve been living through in recent years” (@jburnmurdoch.ft.com on Laurenz Guenther’s insights).

Want to push back against the increasingly emboldened racism in our streets, politics & media but don’t know how to do so effectively? To send a message to those who feel threatened that ‘you’re one of us, we’ve got your back’? @hopenothate.org.uk have your back: www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan...

How people at the sharp end of social & economic issues struggle to find jobs – or a hearing – in #charities dealing with those issues: Analysis & data just released.. lnkd.in/p/ekT7AJ67

“sections of the working class can be drawn to the far right not because they are hardcore racists but because most of the old political outlets for their discontent have eroded [&] inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances” (@kenanmalik.bsky.social)