As more and more bad actors weaponise notions of child safety to legitimise racist attacks on immigration/migrants it’s so important to see cross-sectoral opposition! 💥

New paper considering the state of play of UK child welfare responses to extra-familial harm for the British Journal of Social Work with Rachael Owens, Jenny Lloyd and @carlenefirmin.bsky.social

#extrafamilialharm #contextualsafeguarding #childrenssocialcare

academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance...

Antonio La Picirella, Day 3 on ‘Handala’

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings!

Re-posting, in light of Casey report

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings!

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As we gear up for strike action tomorrow & Saturday, we'd like to take a moment to extend heartfelt thanks to those who've donated to our hardship fund, including: IWW Northumbria Branch (£300), UCU Birmingham (£100), the OU branch (£250) and numerous individuals giving generous personal donations.

Times & places for today's strike action:
8.30–11.00 Pickets at main crossroads entrance (by the 'What Lies Beneath' map)
11.00–12.30 SGIA Teachout: Whose History? Statues and the Politics of Decolonisation, online & in Dunelm House B16
Friday 12.30–14.30 Branch Strategy Session, Dunelm House Lounge

Our new paper is out led by @lauriewroe.bsky.social & with Delphine Peace on learning from #Contextualsafeguarding Across Borders with refugee young people in Germany. Interesting to be bilingual researcher on the project - reminder of how language/trajectories shape contexts & concepts.

#Socialworkers! #Migrantjustice activists - give Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social a follow on here 👀❤️

New article for European Journal of Social Work with co-authors @nhuegler.bsky.social & Delphine Peace!

Learning from the Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders research project with #refugee young people in Germany, part of the #contextualsafeguarding programme

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help.

So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

Also, while we're talking about our strike, a lot of students have been asking how they can support us (being fully aware of who actually has their backs in this uni), and what it means to cross (or not cross) a picket line in this case. We'll defer here to our excellent Instagram team on this one.

Very proud as UCUC treasurer to have authorized a payment of £500 to the Good Law Project today!

Mgt just refuses to call off compulsory redundancies, saying they want to prioritise “voluntary” severance.

This is a classic risk aversion dilemma—the more people believe the Uni will sack them anyway, the more likely they are to take the VS £ although they’d rather stay.

That’s not voluntary!

Sign sign sign!
Our jobs are on the line!

Solidarity with UCU members at Durham Univeristy Striking today.

Staff are standing up against job cuts and defending the future of education! ✊

#ProtectEducationNow #UCU

Rally time! Jamie lays it out!

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs.

An attack on one is an attack on all!

Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!

We are *all* the university!

ON STRIKE as a member of Durham UCU in response to Durham University management’s proposed staff cuts of £20m. University management has refused DUCU requests to stop compulsory redundancies & to work with us to find non-staff cost savings. Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Full themed section for Critical and Radical Social Work with Dr Leona Vaughn @bupjournals.bsky.social now online 👀

Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety.

All available here:

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Rachael Owen's and Jenny Lloyd have a new book with @brisunipress.bsky.social

Documenting their extensive experience of working alongside practitioners to change systems. The book is about how we feel and do systems change- plus poems!

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/doing-real-l...