Seamus Heaney "Your own experience is trustworthy and you can use it" #PresentationNotRepresentation #CloserToPeople

Gosh, busy few days with PAR. My work as an independent Social Work has meant I can help this wonderful grassroots organisation grow. Important work but its enjoyable too. #community #radicalsocialwork

Do you work with families facing financial pressure? Do you have views about how families’ finances, benefits and children's social care referrals are connected? Take part in this important research!

Just out in Qualitative Social Work, my new paper using story completion methods to look at social work responses to discriminatory abuse in safeguarding adults. Really pleased to see it in print RHUL Social Work Royal Holloway Law and Criminology Qualitative Social Work journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Our new report 'Babies in care proceedings: What do we know about parents with learning disabilities or difficulties?' explores the experiences of parents with learning disabilities or difficulties involved in care proceedings nuffieldfjo.org.uk/resource/babie…(opens in a new tab)

Great day with The City of Edinburgh Council Meaningful Participation Event. Inspiring speakers Tim Fisher relational activism Clive Diaz Kar-Man (Camden•CASCADE•RelationalActivism•RHUL ) David Tobis PAR is looking forward to the door being open to us participating with the LA - lets see where this takes us

My presentation showing that 1 in 6 children were investigated for abuse before their fifth birthday in the most deprived tenth of Scotland is now on-line bilson.org.uk/presentations/…

Our fabulous collaborator ⁦Jenny Capon💙⁩ with the piece she created with the older adults group - stories matter ⁦The Binks Hub⁩ ⁦The Ripple⁩

Don't forget to get your ticket for our Festival of Learning keynote speech by Ashley John-Baptiste this Thursday at 3pm. Hosted by Sophia Alexandra Hall, Ashley will discuss his experience in the #CareSystem and his debut book ‘Looked After: A Childhood in Care’ sounddelivery.org.uk/festival-of-le…

#LifelongLinks m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5OWg…

On Friday, we have the last event - To spend an afternoon with ❤️ David Tobis and relational activism at a beautiful art gallery at King's Cross to close the David Tobis UK and Europe Tour. Thanks to all the change-makers who joined us to create memories together.

Family Group Conference Coordinator (Whole Family Wellbeing) - EDN28388 | City of Edinburgh Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/city-… via myjobscotland

I am officially going to be giving the keynote speech on the final day of ISPCAN conference next week! I am excited to talk about how people with lived and living experiences of social work involvement can be meaningfully involved in all aspects of social work research.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT In this report, we look at some of our impact over the past five years and explain how we are now taking that impact forward Read more: nuffieldfjo.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

'We make mothers responsible, but don’t work with men': Brid Featherstone on child protection - Community Care communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/28/res…

Paula & Maff are a week late this month (normally last Saturday). Do stop by on Sept 7th at 11am and have a bit of company for an hour, just like a public living room but on line. Register to our Mighty Network and see you there! camerados.mn.co

There’s still a couple of spaces left on our online 30-credit PG CPD course for professionals wanting to develop their knowledge & skills in doing #innovation in #socialwork and #socialcare organisations. Learn more at theinnovateproject.co.uk/about-the-proj…

Weddings, birthdays, exam results…so many reasons that families get together. But some young people grow up without these connections. Lifelong Links supports them to maintain, rediscover, reconnect and rebuild positive relationships for the future. Congrats @southwarkcouncil

I've written for Renewal about how my experience of working in frontline NHS mental health services has shaped my thinking for NEF on social security as much as the time I spent working at DWP Here are some of the key lessons I've drawn... 🧵 renewal.org.uk/what-working-i…

Fab to be Lancaster University for Anticipation Conference Presented this afternoon on Co-creating Futures for Universities in interdisciplinary session w relational activism Chris Groves Tim Fisher Barbara Adam. And we did some painting! Geography & Planning