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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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/

"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

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...

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-...

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.