
Child Welfare Inequalities Network
@childwelfarein1
A global group of academics, activists and practitioners working hard to describe, explain and reduce inequities in child welfare systems
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Kimberlé Crenshaw
@sandylocks
Professor @ColumbiaLaw and @UCLA_law; Executive Director @AAPolicyForum; Host @IMKC_podcast; Views expressed here are my own!
Stephen Jones
@steve_jkpbooks
Publishing Director at @JKPBooks - recently joined Bluesky bsky.app so do say hello at stevejkpbooks.bsky.social
Dr Linda Cusworth
@drlcusworth
Research Fellow @childfamjustice. Private family law, child protection, care, adoption, improving outcomes, use of admin and linked data. Tweets personal.
Research in Practice
@researchip
We support professionals with their learning to enable people to live good lives. Part of the @NCBtweets family.
Dr Roma Thomas
@romajt
Principal Lecturer, Uni of Bedfordshire, Curriculum Development/Teaching & Learning, Postgraduate Portfolio, School of Applied Social Sciences,tweets own views
Joe Hanley ⏹️
@joeehanley
Lecturer in social work at The Open University.
Michael
@mikeds2020
Can’t redact what’s been lived. Care Experienced Social Work and PhD research.
Carolina Kam
@carokamech
Youth worker, academic+organizer ✊🏽 Focused on childism +dismantling root causes of #VAC @ruralresidents Abolition⚡TJ⚡Care⚡Social justice. 🇵🇪@🇬🇧 (she/her)
Deadric T. Williams
@doc_thoughts
Associate Professor of Sociology | Tweets == my own. Retweet != endorsement. deadricwilliams.wordpress.com
Cathy Ashley 🟣🇺🇦
@cathyashley
Chief Exec of child welfare charity Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp. Trustee @hiasjcore. 2009-16 Chair @hmd_uk. Mum. ✡️ My own views.
getrudegwenzi
@docta_gg
Postdoctoral fellow (Sociology & Social Policy). Hong Kong PhD Fellow (2016-2019), Ireland Fellows Program (2014-2015). Views my own 🇿🇼🇭🇰
richard servian
@serwianski2

Alice Yeo
@alicerachelyeo
Trainee ISVA, VAWG researcher
Isobel Drew
@drewpower
Lecturer at the Centre for Child Protection and for the Social Work Degree Apprenticeship(SWDA) at University of Kent.
Alan Dettlaff
@alandettlaff
Co-founder of the @upendmovement to abolish the family policing system | Writer and co-facilitator at Toward Liberation, an abolitionist learning group
Ivory A. Toldson
@toldson

John Devaney
@jdev65
Social Worker & Academic with an interest in child welfare, domestic violence and the impact of adversity in childhood across the lifecourse.
Dr Eva A Sprecher
@easprecher
Research Associate @ucl @AFNCCF - fostering relationships - mental health of care-experienced YP. Ex-Physics teacher. Puffin Enthusiast #crohns 🏳️🌈
Gale Burford
@gb4753
Emeritus Professor Social Work, University of Vermont.
Harry Ferguson
@harr_ferguson
Professor of Social Work. Child protection, fatherhood, research into practice. Promoting organ donor awareness having received 2 liver transplants 🙏🏽❤️
Michelle Lefevre
@michellelefevr1
Professor of Social Work at Sussex Uni, Project lead of @Innovateproj. Obsessive gardener & cat lover. Any views expressed are mine not those of Sussex 🌈
Lucy Peake
@drlucypeake
Chief exec @kinshipcharity, mum, runs sometimes, Churchill Fellow 2024
Family Rights Group
@familyrightsgp
Helping Families Helping Children. We campaign for families to have their voice heard, be treated fairly and get help early to prevent problems escalating.
Donald Forrester
@donaldforr
I’ve left twitter and moved to @[email protected] Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Director @cascaderesearch Cardiff University
Lancaster Law and Crim
@lancsunilaw
The official feed for @LancasterUni Law School. Posting news about our research in Law and Criminology, and information for current and prospective students.
Liz Beddoe
@beddoee
Social work researcher University of Auckland. women’s rights; reproductive justice; critical social work. Pro- Abortion. Pākehā. she/her.🏴🇵🇸
Stephen Webb @stephenwebb.bsky.social
@stephen_a_webb
Professor of Social Work. Critical social work and biopolitics. Author of Social Work in a Risk Society. Editor of Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work
ANZSWWER
@anzswwer
Australian & New Zealand Social Work & Welfare Education & Research (formerly AASWWE). Publisher of Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education journal
TCRU at UCL IOE
@tcru_ucl
We are the Thomas Coram Research Unit. We have been leaders of research into children, parenting and families since 1973. Part of @UCLSocRes @IOE_London @UCL
Association for Narrative Research and Practice
@anarrativerp
The Association for Narrative Research and Practice is leading narrative research in social sciences. m.facebook.com/groups/centref…
Dez Holmes
@dez_holmes
Director @researchIP @NCBtweets. Find me on Bluesky or LinkedIn - this place is a bin fire now
Mónica López López
@m_lopez_lopez
She/her | Associate Professor @rug_gmw @univgroningen teaching #decisionmaking in #childwelfare at the master @YSP_Groningen | Board member of @EUSARF2023
Dr.Christine Wekerle
@drwekerle
Researcher: child abuse, dating violence, gender, mental health, resilience youthresilience.net scholar.google.com/citations?user…
Faye Tomlinson
@tomlinson_faye
Lecturing Social Work at University of Warwick. Lover of art, nature and kindness. Absolute lefty. Views from heart and my own…
Claire Baker
@drclairebaker
Focused on improving things for children in care and care leavers through listening, learning, research and policy influencing. #york
Davara
@davara_bennett

BASW Black Country
@baswbc
Qualified Social Workers in the Black Country, principally Dudley, Sandwell , Walsall, Wolverhampton & nearby. Tweets aren’t necessarily the views of BASWuk 🕸
Lisa Holmes
@lisa_holmes_esw
Professor of Applied Social Science @SussexUniESW Children's social care, evidence informed practice & partial to unit costs. Own views.
Dr. Alhassan Abdullah
@dralhassanabdul
Social Work academic at Charles Sturt University. Research interests| child maltreatment prevention & impacts of communities & culture in child maltreatment.
Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
@nuffieldfjo
Nuffield FJO aims to improve the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system in England and Wales. Established by @NuffieldFound
Closing The Gap Network
@ctgnetworkuk
UKRI Network+ to improve physical health and reduce health inequalities for people with Severe Mental Ill Health
Suzanne Mooney
@smooney_qub
Social work & systemic family therapy academic - interested in social justice, multiple adversities, trauma-informed care & service improvement - own views
EndFamilyPolicing
@policingfamily
PHONE: 215 919 7711 —- AVA CALL ME! Abolitionist; #AbolishFamilyCourt #AbolishCPS #AbolishFamilyPolicing #AbolishAdoption promoting #AdopteeVoices not adopted
someone
@aikurna

abolition is the ONLY way ✊🏾
@zairasjourney
down for the revolution and down to clown.
Scottish Poverty & Inequality Research Unit
@gcu_spiru
We are an interdisciplinary research group working to investigate and develop effective responses to poverty and inequality in Scotland and beyond.
The Child Welfare TRUTH-Telling Collective
@cwtruthtelling
We are committed to transforming systems of child welfare by speaking and witnessing truths. Share your truth and witness the truths of others, see link below.
relational activism
@relationalacts
a shared space. account run collectively by parent activists, social workers & artists who are using 'lived' & ‘learned' experiences to co-design human services
Shlomit Weiss-Dagan
@daganweiss
For a better and more just world. Bar-Ilan University's School of Social Work.
Sharon McPherson
@sharon_kinship
Kinship Carer, co-founder of Families In Harmony, campaigner for racial equity in policy and practice plus investment in race related kinship care research.
Poverty Research and Advocacy Network (PRAN)
@pran_action
PRAN is an independent advocacy network that aims to change popular and stigmatising discourses on poverty and exclusion that hinder social progress.
Councillor Sarah Jane Colclough
@231_sarah_jane
Councillor for Bentilee, Ubberley and Townsend.
SW Without Borders
@socialworkerswb
Social work solidarity with migrants, asylum-seekers & refugees. Collaboration// Education // Solidarity.
Angela Frazer-Wicks MBE
@afrazerwicks
Mum, Birth Mum. Chair of Trustees Family Rights Group & Parents Panel member. Public speaker, writer & poet. Championing the voices of lived experience
Naomi Jackson
@socialworknkj
Managing Director at @SocialWorkersWB. ESRC PhD at @LivUniSLSJ @LIVEChildRights. My own views (actually I am always borrowing from other people's good ideas!)
Rebecca
@rebeccaokeefesw
Social work lecturer/apprentice lead. Registered social worker. Children and families/child protection/safeguarding. Views are my own. @leedsbeckett
GlobalChild
@globalchild_can
A child rights monitoring platform to facilitate monitoring of and compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
the social work action group
@swactionuk
Centring Compassion in Child Safeguarding | Emotional Support + Monthly Group Call for SWs 💻↙️
Dr Paul D Shuttleworth
@pshuttle3
Social worker- Lecturer Sussex and Kingston -'Do Do Social Work' podcaster , choir member. Ex-BASW PO. Child voice, what matters, kinship care & Jewishness.
china mills (she/her)
@chinatmills
Welfare state violence, global mental health, disability justice. Leads the Deaths by Welfare Project @DeathsbyWelfare @HJusticeLdn
Dr Diane Simpson
@drdianesimpson
Retired Senior lecturer in Social Work. Part time learning and development coach at the University of Sunderland. All views expressed are my own
Lowis Charfe
@lowischarfe
Senior Lecturer @ UCLAN. Part of ThemPra. Find me on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/lowis-charf…
Dr. Cindy Corliss 💖💜💙🏳️🌈
@cindycorliss
Researcher in CASCADE at Cardiff University. Interested in cyberbullying, sociology, experiences of children in care. All views my own. she/her
Christian Kerr
@swconcern
Social worker. Lecturer. Elected director: BASW. Resource review editor: Practice - Social Work in Action. Co-editor: The Future of Children’s Care. And then…
Rebekah Pierre
@rebekahpierre92
Deputy Director @Article_39 Writer @Guardian Trustee @TogetherTrust Editor of Free Loaves on Fridays OUT NOW @Unbounders 🥨🥖🍞 @bekahpierre.bsky.social
Population, Policy and Practice Department
@ich_ppp
We aim to promote the health of children and young people and the adults they will become through research and teaching.
Georgia Philip
@georgia_philip
Researcher in the School of Social Work at The University of East Anglia, studying fatherhood and how children’s services can work better with fathers.
Richard Devine
@richarddevinesw
Taking a break from Twitter. Leaving this up for reference/future use. If you want to get in touch, please don’t hesitate; [email protected]