Michael Graham (he/him)
@michaelgraham.bsky.social
Social worker doing practice quality assurance at @hertscc.bsky.social . Doctoral candidate at The Tavistock & Portman 🧑🏻🎓 researching social justice. Visiting Lecturer. Dyslexic 🧠 Moomin fanatic 💙 Podcast addict 🎧 @Unison.org.uk ✊🏻 member
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Today the OBR finally published employment impacts of Govt’s (remaining) disability benefit cuts, which weren’t ready in the spring. Confirms @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis at the time that these huge cuts to disabled people’s incomes come with relatively few expected to move into work. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today the OBR finally published employment impacts of Govt’s (remaining) disability benefit cuts, which weren’t ready in the spring. Confirms @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis at the time that these huge cuts to disabled people’s incomes come with relatively few expected to move into work. 🧵1/3
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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New @resolutionfoundation.org @safety-nets.bsky.social report on the localisation of social security since 2013: Support delivered by local authorities isn't well understood but is an increasingly important part of the social security system: real spending on it is now 122 times higher than 2010-11
The localisation era • Resolution Foundation
This report is part of the project Safety Nets: social security for families in a devolved UK, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. It examines the growth of localised social security in the UK from 201...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New @resolutionfoundation.org @safety-nets.bsky.social report on the localisation of social security since 2013: Support delivered by local authorities isn't well understood but is an increasingly important part of the social security system: real spending on it is now 122 times higher than 2010-11
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Local government spending power in England has fallen by more than a fifth since 2010-11.
Responsibility for providing support with the cost of Council Tax was localised, at the same time that councils' financial positions became strained.
Read 'The localisation era' now ⤵️ buff.ly/oPhDMwI
Responsibility for providing support with the cost of Council Tax was localised, at the same time that councils' financial positions became strained.
Read 'The localisation era' now ⤵️ buff.ly/oPhDMwI
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Local government spending power in England has fallen by more than a fifth since 2010-11.
Responsibility for providing support with the cost of Council Tax was localised, at the same time that councils' financial positions became strained.
Read 'The localisation era' now ⤵️ buff.ly/oPhDMwI
Responsibility for providing support with the cost of Council Tax was localised, at the same time that councils' financial positions became strained.
Read 'The localisation era' now ⤵️ buff.ly/oPhDMwI
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Brief and well-informed info on the British social care system, good illustrations, from King's Fund, authoritative charity.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Adult Social Care: Key facts And figures | The King's Fund
What is social care? How many people deliver social care? How much does social care cost individuals and the state? We answer some of the most frequently asked questions we receive about social care.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Brief and well-informed info on the British social care system, good illustrations, from King's Fund, authoritative charity.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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Why top-tier professionals resist change – and why it matters youtu.be/qi6ypRt3ekw?...
Why top-tier professionals resist change – and why it matters
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Why top-tier professionals resist change – and why it matters youtu.be/qi6ypRt3ekw?...
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If i ask hospital colleagues- "do you think things are getting better?" what would people would say...?
Ofc there's loads of data about performance, waiting times etc. But what many of us really notice is- How are stress/threat levels? Are we able to do a decent job? Are we able to think properly?
Ofc there's loads of data about performance, waiting times etc. But what many of us really notice is- How are stress/threat levels? Are we able to do a decent job? Are we able to think properly?
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If i ask hospital colleagues- "do you think things are getting better?" what would people would say...?
Ofc there's loads of data about performance, waiting times etc. But what many of us really notice is- How are stress/threat levels? Are we able to do a decent job? Are we able to think properly?
Ofc there's loads of data about performance, waiting times etc. But what many of us really notice is- How are stress/threat levels? Are we able to do a decent job? Are we able to think properly?
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It would currently take 11.6 years for a typical family to save for a typically sized deposit on their first home.
This is very challenging, and why so many people turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad. But not everyone has access to that 'bank'....
Watch our event discussion now: buff.ly/7ipixlX
This is very challenging, and why so many people turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad. But not everyone has access to that 'bank'....
Watch our event discussion now: buff.ly/7ipixlX
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It would currently take 11.6 years for a typical family to save for a typically sized deposit on their first home.
This is very challenging, and why so many people turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad. But not everyone has access to that 'bank'....
Watch our event discussion now: buff.ly/7ipixlX
This is very challenging, and why so many people turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad. But not everyone has access to that 'bank'....
Watch our event discussion now: buff.ly/7ipixlX
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Most MSW programs teach us to write beautiful papers about systems then toss us into caseloads where the system is on fire. We need training for the real job: navigating systems, moral injury screening, paperwork triage, courtroom chaos. Update the syllabus. #TruthBombTuesday #SocialWork
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Most MSW programs teach us to write beautiful papers about systems then toss us into caseloads where the system is on fire. We need training for the real job: navigating systems, moral injury screening, paperwork triage, courtroom chaos. Update the syllabus. #TruthBombTuesday #SocialWork
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Workshops Work episode 257 - Exploring the Ethical Lines between Facilitation and Consulting with Benjamin Taylor myriamhadnes.substack.com/p/257-explor...
257 - Exploring the Ethical Lines between Facilitation and Consulting with Benjamin Taylor
Dominant, supportive.
myriamhadnes.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Workshops Work episode 257 - Exploring the Ethical Lines between Facilitation and Consulting with Benjamin Taylor myriamhadnes.substack.com/p/257-explor...
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Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand ...
www.ukri.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
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“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A.A. Milne
You’re clever, capable, and growing all the time. You’ve done more than you realise, and you’re doing brilliantly.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief
Picture by @anxiety.positive
You’re clever, capable, and growing all the time. You’ve done more than you realise, and you’re doing brilliantly.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief
Picture by @anxiety.positive
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” A.A. Milne
You’re clever, capable, and growing all the time. You’ve done more than you realise, and you’re doing brilliantly.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief
Picture by @anxiety.positive
You’re clever, capable, and growing all the time. You’ve done more than you realise, and you’re doing brilliantly.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief
Picture by @anxiety.positive
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The last article in The Gender Clinic Files is now out!
The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today.
Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.
The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today.
Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.
How I discovered the waiting times for every gender clinic in the UK
We believe in doing what the NHS should be - reporting honestly and transparently on the state of gender services in the UK
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The last article in The Gender Clinic Files is now out!
The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today.
Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.
The Gender Services Monitor is available from tge article, and my website will be updatted later today.
Huge thank you to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series, which finishes off with a Q^A next week.
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The case for putting place-based, relational approaches at the heart of local government reorganisation. Collaborate. bit.ly/4nAtMZP
The case for putting place-based, relational approaches at the heart of local government reorganisation - Collaborate
“The bigger you go, the less you know” Collaborate has worked with Test Valley Borough Council to build the case for why place-based, relational approaches...
collaboratecic.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The case for putting place-based, relational approaches at the heart of local government reorganisation. Collaborate. bit.ly/4nAtMZP
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If anyone would like to watch the Social Work Disability Justice League's opening plenary at the Council on Social Work Education's Annual Conference with me, Laura Wernick, and Vandana Chaudry on Disability Justice & Disability Joy, we start at about 20:00 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxt...
CSWE Annual Conference 2025: Opening Plenary Panel Discussion on Disability Justice and Joy
YouTube video by Council on Social Work Education
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If anyone would like to watch the Social Work Disability Justice League's opening plenary at the Council on Social Work Education's Annual Conference with me, Laura Wernick, and Vandana Chaudry on Disability Justice & Disability Joy, we start at about 20:00 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxt...
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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yesterday night, when I was preparing the powerpoint for next week's Gresham Lecture on 'Limitarianism and Capitalism', I checked the Real Times Forbes Billionaires list.
Elon Musk had 499.9 billion dollars.
Today, he is sitting on half a trillion dollars.
www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...
Elon Musk had 499.9 billion dollars.
Today, he is sitting on half a trillion dollars.
www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
yesterday night, when I was preparing the powerpoint for next week's Gresham Lecture on 'Limitarianism and Capitalism', I checked the Real Times Forbes Billionaires list.
Elon Musk had 499.9 billion dollars.
Today, he is sitting on half a trillion dollars.
www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...
Elon Musk had 499.9 billion dollars.
Today, he is sitting on half a trillion dollars.
www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...
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Unison takes a stand against the betrayal of migrant care workers.
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Unison takes a stand against the betrayal of migrant care workers.
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
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Useful practical things to look out for on abuse of older people
www.essex.gov.uk/news/2025/sp...
www.essex.gov.uk/news/2025/sp...
Spotting the signs of domestic abuse in older people | Essex County Council
Campaign aims to encourage friends, families, carers and professionals to know the signs and seek support.
www.essex.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Useful practical things to look out for on abuse of older people
www.essex.gov.uk/news/2025/sp...
www.essex.gov.uk/news/2025/sp...
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When a child has experienced trauma, their behaviour isn’t a moral failing, it’s communication. The anger you see? That’s pain. The defiance? That’s fear. And the silence? That’s a survival strategy. None of this is about excusing bad behaviour. It’s about understanding it!
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
When a child has experienced trauma, their behaviour isn’t a moral failing, it’s communication. The anger you see? That’s pain. The defiance? That’s fear. And the silence? That’s a survival strategy. None of this is about excusing bad behaviour. It’s about understanding it!
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Community Integrated Care Launches Bold New Five-Year Strategy: ‘Best Lives, Bolder’ Setting Out a Powerful Vision for the Future of the Organisation
Read More here: https://ow.ly/VWcX50XjCaO
#Forpeoplenotforprofit #CommunityIntegratedCare #SocialCare
Read More here: https://ow.ly/VWcX50XjCaO
#Forpeoplenotforprofit #CommunityIntegratedCare #SocialCare
Community Integrated Care Launches Bold New Five-Year Strategy: 'Best Lives, Bolder' - National Care Forum
National social care charity Community Integrated Care has unveiled its ambitious new five-year strategy, ‘Best Lives, Bolder’, setting out a powerful vision
ow.ly
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Community Integrated Care Launches Bold New Five-Year Strategy: ‘Best Lives, Bolder’ Setting Out a Powerful Vision for the Future of the Organisation
Read More here: https://ow.ly/VWcX50XjCaO
#Forpeoplenotforprofit #CommunityIntegratedCare #SocialCare
Read More here: https://ow.ly/VWcX50XjCaO
#Forpeoplenotforprofit #CommunityIntegratedCare #SocialCare
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We’re trapped in a narrow conversation about trust and policing.
Instead of continuing to invest in policing reforms and solutions that do not work, let’s instead consider community initiatives that we know work to reduce crime - pastoral care, youth workers, mental health support.
Instead of continuing to invest in policing reforms and solutions that do not work, let’s instead consider community initiatives that we know work to reduce crime - pastoral care, youth workers, mental health support.
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We’re trapped in a narrow conversation about trust and policing.
Instead of continuing to invest in policing reforms and solutions that do not work, let’s instead consider community initiatives that we know work to reduce crime - pastoral care, youth workers, mental health support.
Instead of continuing to invest in policing reforms and solutions that do not work, let’s instead consider community initiatives that we know work to reduce crime - pastoral care, youth workers, mental health support.
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In this special live episode recorded in front of pupils from schools in Doncaster, David talks to political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social about whether Nigel Farage is really going to be the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In this special live episode recorded in front of pupils from schools in Doncaster, David talks to political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social about whether Nigel Farage is really going to be the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In this special live episode recorded in front of pupils from schools in Doncaster, David talks to political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social about whether Nigel Farage is really going to be the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In this special live episode recorded in front of pupils from schools in Doncaster, David talks to political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social about whether Nigel Farage is really going to be the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Disabled people are more likely to be victims of financial abuse.
And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings.
It's a horrifically abusive system.
And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings.
It's a horrifically abusive system.
October 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Disabled people are more likely to be victims of financial abuse.
And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings.
It's a horrifically abusive system.
And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings.
It's a horrifically abusive system.