Ahead of #WorldMentalHealthDay we are sharing the diary of an Emergency Duty Team (EDT) social worker. Since the pandemic started, our members on EDT teams have reported a marked increase in cases where ill mental health is a major factor. Read more: basw.co.uk/media/news/202…

10 October is #WorldMentalHealthDay. Sometimes, it helps to talk to someone who understands the challenges you’re facing to help you move forward. Our trained volunteer coaches are here to listen & support you. #WMHD2021 basw.co.uk/professional-s…

The Channel 4 Dispatches documentary about sexual misconduct by police officers was powerful and hard-hitting but I was disappointed that it failed to explore impact of racism AND misogyny that gives women of colour double the reason to mistrust the police. #CopsOnTrial

Loads of people stopped to ask us about our #river animals today at the #ClimateMarch

Dr Emma Chan People are genuinely shocked by the #sewagescandal- they thought they were paying for their sewage to be treated & NOT dumped in their local river or beach ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lets hope MPs vote to #stopsewagepollution for their constituents’ & national #climateresiliience #COP26

Hey FANS SUPPORTING FOODBANKS #RightToFood where can Spurs fans going to the game today at Goodison Park donate food items for vulnerable locals? And what are you in need of right now? #COYS #FootbAllTogetherNow #HungerDoesntWearClubColours

The world doesn't need newer cars... The world desperately needs fewer cars! #COP26 #TransportDay (by Pedal On Parliament)

The top diplomat from the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu got his point across — as he addressed the U.N. climate summit wearing a suit and tie, standing at a lectern, in knee-deep seawater. wapo.st/3BYQOBZ

It's anti-bullying week next week: learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-resou…

Social workers respond to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes tragedy on social media, Professional Social Work magazine basw.co.uk/resources/psw-…

Whilst most attention has been paid to Allegra Stratton and the Number 10 Christmas parties, the Nationality and Borders Bill has passed. The legislation allows for the Government to remove citizenship without warning, to turn back asylum seekers and criminalise their passage.

“Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory.”—Bessel van der Kolk

I grew up with grandparents who insisted on keeping their non-British passports because “they could kick us out at any moment, you never know…”we used to laugh saying “relax, that would never happen.” Yesterday, the UK made this fear rational, by passing a law that allows -->

It's hard to put my anger into words.

Simone Biles (Simone Biles) is TIME's 2021 Athlete of the Year #TIMEPOY ti.me/3ILqu35

After a long fight, we can publish this. A former MP and govt minister, Andrew Griffiths, was found by a family court judge to have abused and raped his wife. It would have been secret, but we argued in court that the public have a right to know. tortoisemedia.com/2021/12/10/gri…

"It is intolerable, and we should not tolerate, the operation of separate criminal justice systems, a soft one for those with power and influence and a harsher one for those without." glplive.org/met-police-130…

This has aged well.

Right to protest revoked. Citizenship can be revoked without notice. Media controlled or defunded. Police unwilling to investigate government. Even the most avid Tory-supporters should see the bricks of fascism being laid.