Free to view for one month: Hostile relationships in social work practice: anxiety, hate and conflict in long-term work with involuntary service users. #socialwork. Harry Ferguson Liz Beddoe Dr Tarsem Singh Cooner @TDisney85 @LisaWarwick_ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What an incredible narrator.

ECSWR 2021 Bucharest - Keynote speakers: Prof. Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Prof. Ioan Durnescu, Prof. Eileen Munro, Prof. Michael Reisch read more ecswr2020.org/en/default.asp, #ECSWR2021

Enjoyed an excellent Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group (DARSIG) Pre-conference event at ESWRA

Listened to a really interesting presentation at ESWRA conference by Kristine Hickle Kristine Langhoff which combined Trauma Informed (TI) approach with the Capability Approach - innovative and really addresses the weaknesses of a TI approach.

The new edition of Private Eye is in shops now!

Honoured to be appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs. At a time when Britain is recasting itself on the world stage, I look forward to setting out Labour’s vision for a values-led foreign policy based on cooperation & internationalism

Group decision-making theories for child and family social work tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Using intuition in social work decision making tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Excellent article by Tirion Havard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - Girls in gangs: how they are recruited, exploited and trapped theconversation.com/girls-in-gangs… via The Conversation

Award alert - Prof Andrew Whittaker collecting #ESWRA2022 Award for Best Publication on behalf of Harry Ferguson and colleagues. Very well done 👏

John Devaney Prof Andrew Whittaker Thanks very much for sharing this John. Very sorry to be missing the event, I hope you have a great conference and time in Amsterdam.

Harry Ferguson Prof Andrew Whittaker Congrats to you and colleagues Harry - very well deserved

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'Voters turn against Brexit as Boris Johnson’s lies leave Britain undone' - The Mirror apple.news/AEdHIv7S_QMShi…

Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

We should have plenty of money to pay all those NHS workers reasonable wages, keeping up with inflation, shouldn’t we?

À Villers-Cotterêts, François Ier a décidé de faire du français la langue de la justice et de l'administration. C'est ce qui a unifié le pays. Et cette langue nous a dépassés. Au-delà de la communauté nationale, la francophonie continue de rapprocher et d’unir