Andy Jolly
@andyjolly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @SocialWorkUob | Honorary Research Fellow @ICRDwlv | Politics & attempts at humour my own
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Andy Jolly
@andyjolly.bsky.social
· Feb 7
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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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...
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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...
cpag.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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...
Here is a copy of my poster on unpaid fieldwork & social work student wellbeing.
More students lose weight from food insecurity than earn any $$ for their hundreds of hours of practicum labor.
It's horrific. We need industrial planning for care workers.
More students lose weight from food insecurity than earn any $$ for their hundreds of hours of practicum labor.
It's horrific. We need industrial planning for care workers.
April 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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.
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?
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?
April 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
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
www.eventbrite.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
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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.
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
tinyurl.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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.
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
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
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF
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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...
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...
www.ein.org.uk
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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...
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
125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs | University of Birmingham
This is 125 years of NobelPrize-winning research.This is your opportunity to become one of our 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs.
fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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…
birchnetwork.org
November 14, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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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"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
~ Hannah Ahrendt
October 18, 2024 at 10:34 PM
"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
~ 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
Zoo admits that its pandas are, in fact, ‘painted dogs’ after a backlash from visitors.
Zoo admits that their pandas are actually ‘painted dogs’
‘That’s the Temu version of a panda,’ viewer says
www.independent.co.uk
September 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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
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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
August 29, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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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-...
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.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
August 23, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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-...
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!
August 7, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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!
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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
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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.