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Huge congratulations Ciara 💚

It was great to meet with Chris Quinn NI Commissioner for Children and Young People to discuss implementation of Children's Social Care Services Independent Review recommendations,
Education NI restrictive practices guidance, MCA DOLs in educational settings & the need for an audit of the costs of poverty.

Our Policy & Comms Lead Andy McClenaghan represented Cliff Edge Coalition NI on BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf Programme on Saturday discussing the need to remove the Universal Credit two-child limit. You can listen back on BBC Sounds, the segment begins at 02:14.
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Wonderful to have John McGowan General Secretary of ⁦Social Workers Union⁩ in NI discussing the findings of our joint research exploring student social workers’ views on the social work bursary & planning our next steps to deliver for everyone involved.

Thanks to Josephine Dowell & Karen Cassidy Panoviciu for speaking so openly about the struggles they & their social work student colleagues are facing during the cost-of-living crisis

⁦Social Workers Union⁩ ⁦Department of Health⁩

Looking forward to discussing why Cliff Edge Coalition NI supports removal of the Universal Credit two-child limit this morning with Linda McAuley MBE on BBC Radio Ulster from 10am.

Listen at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

BASW Northern Ireland BASW

Our Policy & Comms Lead Andy McClenaghan will represent Cliff Edge Coalition NI on BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf programme tomorrow at 10am with Linda McAuley MBE to discuss the need to remove the Universal Credit two-child limit.

Listen on BBC sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

BASW

Carolyn Ewart Orlaith McGibbon Fantastic to see this interest and commitment to supporting the professional association 👏

Congratulations and best wishes to #IASW Chairperson Vivian Geiran and the six others appointed to the Board of Cuan, the DSGBV Agency. #SocialWork #DSGBV #Safeguarding

Really enjoyed contributing to this. Hopefully it helps those considering this area of practice.

We're proud to be part of Cliff Edge Coalition NI & fully support tomorrow's Opposition Day motion calling on the Communities NI Minister to present a plan to remove the Universal Credit two-child limit.

Sinn Féin DUP Ulster Unionist Party Alliance Party The SDLP

#remove2childlimit

We’ll be at Stormont this morning for the Opposition debate on poverty.

Really encouraged to see the removal of the two-child limit on the agenda.
 
One in four children here now live in poverty and those numbers will only continue to rise if action isn’t taken immediately.

1 in 4 children live in poverty in NI. A vital step in addressing the issue is to remove the Universal Credit two-child limit. BASW supports the Opposition Day motion calling for this.

Read our press release new.basw.co.uk/articles/socia…

BBC Talkback William Crawley BASW

Still time to vote!

It was great to meet with Liz Kimmins MLA Liz Kimmins, Chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health Committee this afternoon to discuss priority issues for social work.

Details of the issues raised are outlined in our briefing to Health Committee members⬇️
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Great to meet with ⁦Carolyn Ewart⁩ & ⁦Noleen Higgins ⁦BASW Northern Ireland⁩ 🙏

Discussing the issues @PPR_org campaigns on - mental health, social housing & the rights of asylum seekers & the important role social workers have to play in creating human rights based services.

A privilege to be appointed by Minister Helen McEntee TD to serve on the Board of Cuan, the DSGBV Agency and looking forward to working with Board colleagues, Cuan CEO & team and all partner bodies / agencies to collaboratively implement the National Strategy on DSGBV

Huge congratulations Ruth. Really looking forward to supporting you to deliver on the European agenda. Ruth Allen

Great to be in Panama City for the #swsd2024 ! Vasilios Ioakimidis , Valerie Ouedraogo and I are presenting our ongoing work on social work and political conflict today, including the forthcoming ifsw book on this topic.