4 days to go. HSE has told UoB to prioritise college‑level stress risk assessments in high‑pressure areas, including Arts & Law and Medicine & Health. Those hotspots can’t be ignored. #UoBStressBreach

Here’s the link to donate 🥰🥰 Thank you so much to anybody who can give a little or even just share this appeal. Together we can make love win! ❤️ www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Together in Solidarity

At Calais Appeal, we come together with varied areas of expertise to provide essential support. We are committed to continuing this essential network of solidarity, but we need your support to do so.

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The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...

Learning is an essential need

Recent public narratives around asylum-seeking have focused on mostly men arriving by small boats and staying in Home Office commissioned hotels. However, what is the experience of the children and fa...

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Lumpen: A Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers is open for submissions!

The upcoming issue’s theme will be Migration: a topic that is often weaponised, distorted and manipulated by the ruling classes. There is a lack of an honest discussion about migration in the mainstre...

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This is pretty thought provoking for anyone involved in social work education...

profmattdecarlo@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is a copy of my poster on unpaid fieldwork & social work student wellbeing. More students lose weight from food insecurity than earn any $$ for their hundreds of hours of practicum labor. It's horrific. We need industrial planning for care workers.

This is terrible. Really ashamed of my union. @ucu.org.uk - what are you doing? This is no way to treat your staff.

Unite UCU@uniteucu.bsky.social · 2y ago

It gets worse… Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes. In what trade union world is this acceptable?

Get creative & explore the history of social work zines at our workshop on March 19th in Brum. Design & make our own collective zine for social work week. Don't miss out! #creative #ZineMaking #SocialWorkWeek2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/social-wor...

Social Work Zine Making Workshop

Come and explore the history of social work zines and get creative by designing and making our own collective zine for social work week 2025

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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.

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

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Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF

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

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This is a significant ruling. Home Sec ruled to have breached her duties leaving people destitute without recourse. Need to abolish NRPF entirely. Leaving people utterly destitute, driving them to exploitation & costing an absolute fortune through its cruel impact. www.ein.org.uk/news/high-co...

fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk heads up to any social work academics out there - UoB is recruiting for global 125th Anniversary Chairs and Fellows. Social care is one of their priority areas, so it would be great to get some social work academics on board #academicsky #socialwork

If you are in the UK and are looking for Christmas cards, t-shirts or tote bags, and want to raise money for a small grassroots community organisation for sanctuary seekers in Brum, I have just the place for you: birchnetwork.org/shop/

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Christmas cards *NEW* card designed by Rawand, an artist and young refugee from Kurdistan. Rawand is also a peer support mentor for BIRCH Network, helping to support other young refugees. Gold pige…

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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." ~ Hannah Ahrendt

I love this story! "In one visitor’s video, one of the “pandas” was visibly panting while resting on a rock in a fence, while another clip had a panda with a long tail strolling about." #PanDog #Pandagate

Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social · 2y ago

Zoo admits that its pandas are, in fact, ‘painted dogs’ after a backlash from visitors.

the entire point of chatgpt is that it just spits out the most statistically probable next word in a sentence, which is literally the exact opposite of what good writing is

The asylum system ground to a halt in the lead up to the asylum system because ministers had failed to make decisions on how the Illegal Migration Act should work. Processing claims is not an “amnesty” - it’s performing the most basic function of an asylum system www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Cleverly accused of aggravating asylum backlog by ‘dithering’ on key decisions

Exclusive: Ministers under last home secretary refused to empower caseworkers to tackle crisis, say sources

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There has been a long link between poverty & healthcare provision GPs who fill the void are often left looking after 500 more patients than more affluent areas & people who live in poor areas require more care/support 20% cut in GP funding worse in poorer areas www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

The Relationship Between Poverty And NHS Services

This analysis explores the link between poverty and the prevalence of ill health, accessing health care services, health outcomes and delayed treatment.

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This place is going to take a bit of getting used to, but there's conspicuously less hate on here, which can only be a good thing!

If you didn't already know that academic publishing is a racket - this beautifully outlines all the myriad ways in which it routinely extorts everyone involved with it.

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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