"Austerity cuts leave us fighting a losing battle." Listen to Paula, a social worker & Social Workers Union member, on housing conditions. 🖊️Add your support today to enact the socio-economic duty and help make austerity unlawful: bit.ly/MakeEqualityRe… #MakeEqualityReal General Federation of Trade Unions BASW

Reform's 5 MPs gather for their first meeting.

The new SWU & BASW campaign is member-led and will highlight challenges facing mental health workers in the UK. We urge all 4 governments to come together to work with SWU & BASW in addressing the concerns of our members. swu-union.org.uk/2024/07/new-ca… BASW Northern Ireland SASW BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Missing person. Kindly re-tweet 🙏

Only two weeks to go until the #BookerPrize2024 longlist is revealed 📚🚨 Keep your predictions coming 👀

Have your say on the National Care Service Bill. 👇🏻

If you weren't able to make our conference last month, you can see all the talks at youtube.com/irissvideo.

3/Suicide prevention takes in the wider context beyond gender services. It’s about understanding young people’s distress & how the NHS & society as a whole should respond. About the national rise in suicide in young people over the last 15yrs - now 200 deaths/yr in <20s.

4/How we discuss suicide matters. We need to extend media guidance to social media (below). No-one has justified the “dead child” rhetoric. Can we agree it should stop?

Our concluding paragraph in short piece on evidence examining links between schizophrenia and violence. Relevant to today’s discussions in the UK on the CQC report on Nottingham and Calocane. paper open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Please be cautious about the push to get disabled people back to work using new health passports if the DWP is involved. While it may seem like more support is being offered, sanctions will be part of the process. This will drive many from accessing essential health services.

We shouldn’t be reluctant to study homicide and mental illness. It’s an important, if difficult, topic. Equally, in doing so, we should be sensitive to stigma. How can research tread this line? A few examples. Short 🧵

I've got a pair of #Oasis tickets for 30th July 2025 Wembley. Looking to swap for a 3 bedroom end of terrace property. #OasisLive25 #OasisReunion

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Rebecca Cheptengei is Dead. We speak your name in the land of the living. Rest in Power Yes this is Femicide. We must end Femicide.

For too long, suicide has been shrouded in silence, stigma and misunderstanding By starting the conversation, we can change the narrative on suicide Suicide prevention is our collective responsibility, and together, we can create a world where every life is valued and supported

Big shout out to my amazing ⁦University of Stirling⁩ Social Work colleagues who are undertaking the Permanently Progressing Study, such fascinating and important data - Children in care wait 10 years for permanent home - study bbc.com/news/articles/…

As a patient, I wouldn’t want to tell staff if I felt suicidal. As a member of staff, I feel the desperation given available resources. I don’t know what the answer is. Suicidal patients accused of ‘attention seeking’ by NHS staff, national probe warns independent.co.uk/news/health/su…

"Humble"? This comment is high-school level mean. How do you know a woman Couldn't or Could have children? Then going "Na-na-na, I've got some," pats self on back. What next? "I've got two legs, na-na-na?" Oh + Vance is going to send childless + post-menopausal women to clean up