‘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...

Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children

In response to a relentless rise in calls to New York state’s child abuse hotline, alongside stark racial disparities, social workers, doctors, teachers and others are mobilizing to change the law.

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🎬 New Film Alert! Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with @SpeakupSA explains: 🔹 How social workers should communicate 🔹 Key processes & terms 🔹 Support you can seek 📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83

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”

Michael Lavalette@michaellavalette.bsky.social · 2y ago

My interview with a Palestinian from Tulkarem in the West Bank - looking at the horrors being inflicted in the city by occupation forces www.counterfire.org/article/they...

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....

Exploring the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and their assessment of risk of future child maltreatment: a case study

Child welfare workers are required to assess, address, and make decisions about a multitude of complex issues related to child maltreatment, including child safety and wellbeing. This study aimed t...

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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...

Ngāi Tahu Kaiwhakahaere Justin Tipa Hui Whakaū I Te Tiriti ki Ōnuku Waitangi Day 2025 Commemoration Speech

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

How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness movement

An emerging parallel economy peddles purity, health and fitness to promote wellbeing – and a political worldview.

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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...

NZ needs to keep tabs on proliferation of private surveillance systems, watchdog says

The civil liberties watchdog is warning that NZ is sleepwalking its way to becoming a surveillance society as CCTV systems become more and more common in the country’s businesses.

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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...

Second Gaza ceasefire exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinians due

Hamas is scheduled to release four female Israeli soldiers in Gaza and Israel is expected to then free 200 Palestinians.

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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...

Coercive control and situational couple violence in families with child protection involvement: A case-file analysis

Published article 3008 Children Australia

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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....

Nuance as Praxis for Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities

As social work instructors, we have observed students increasingly wanting to engage in critical conversations about mandated reporting. Few resources are available to support instructors in facili...

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

Why do academics do unfunded research? Resistance, compliance and identity in the UK neo-liberal university

This article explores the understandings of academics who carry out unfunded research and the nature of their academic identity, in a context where research funding is realigned to government and c...

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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

Experts: International law has failed Gaza

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed tens of thousands. Al Jazeera asks why international law has been disregarded.

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

BDS movement@bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2y ago

#ShutDownNation Part 7: 130 top Israeli economists sent the Israeli PM a “clear and emphatic warning” of the “high probability” of Israel’s – highly militarized – economy and society falling into a “spiral of collapse.” Read more ➡️ loom.ly/1ODZOws

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...

Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

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

Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice

This qualitative study utilized interviews with American Indian/Alaskan Native young adults with lived expertise in foster care, Tribal child welfare workers and court professionals to gather train...

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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...

Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland

Based on an analysis of 14 national child welfare policies, the paper explores how relational and cultural continuity are framed in national foster ca…

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“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....

“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia

This paper reports on interviews with 30 individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, or South Sudan, all of whom had resettled in South Australia. Participants were interviewed abou...

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

“Suiting up”: Preparing workforces to take on the mantle of preventing child maltreatment from a public health perspective

Internationally, particularly in anglophone countries, there are increasing calls for a new vision for child welfare involving significant shifts in s…

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