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From Monday 9 September the Journeys of Belonging exhibition comes to the Library, exploring the stories of LGBTQI+ people who have voluntarily migrated or who have sought asylum across Europe and beyond.

What a lovely few days listening to thoughtful, fun, and interesting people talk about youth, creativity, empathy, and hopeful determination #UUstoptheclock

Loved talking about resistance, creativity, power and lessons learned from the Imagining Resistance project on behalf of my fab research team Becky Warnock and Camille Warrington #UUStopTheClock

Applications for the Stuart Hall Fellowship at School of Media, Arts and Humanities are now open. The Fellowship will run during the spring term of the 2024/25 academic year, with a funding award totalling to £5000 to support the fellow in devising several works. Learn more: stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunities/…

Last chance to apply! We're looking for a Training & Development Officer to join the team & lead on the delivery of our national training programme. Deadline to apply is Sunday 8 September. All details here abianda.com/work-with-us #Participation #ContextualSafeguarding #Training

Have you heard of the ‘care cycle’? Our new project aims to offer an alternative narrative & champion parents who have their own children after leaving care. Please get in touch if you would like to share your views #CareLeaversCan ⁦⁦The Care Experienced Conference⁩ sheffield.ac.uk/ahpnm/research…

We also have a curated exhibition of images (pp 24-29) from the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded 'Imagining Resistance' project led by Kristine Langhoff, which provides fascinating insights into the creative and participatory methods developed during the study.

Really looking forward to digging into this book!

There are people who don't want to hear the word 'Christmas' meanwhile people meeting across the country to put on a christmas dinner for others. We are raising funds for care leavers on Christmas Day. Can you support us? Or just share this? Please. peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/ha…

Great to work w @MichiMathias and TheInnovateProject colleagues on this resource re complexity and dynamics in #TransitionalSafeguarding systems change journeys, using the #ecocycles perspective. I hope organisations and networks will find it useful for planning and reflection.

The zombie knives ban is a small step forward – but the focus needs to be on the child holding the blade Ciaran Thapar theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Heartbreaking. The family had visits from social workers, health visitors. Mother a lone parent had mental health problems, poor housing. Far too much expected of her. No family support. Her 4 boys died in house fire. So tragic. The state must do more. theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Proud to launch this video and accompanying guide. Listening to children living in kinship care should be the starting point, not the afterthought. youtu.be/Ix-hindnVQ4?si… CoramBAAF Coram Voice School of Education & Social Work 🏳️‍🌈💪 Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research Kingston University Sussex CIRCY Kinship

You know what to do. Petition to Stop the Proposed Cuts to Birmingham Youth Service. chng.it/HnsJ7yDxd9

The second in our new mini series on tech and sexual violence for Beyond Slavery . In this hard-hitting piece, survivor Eunice-Esther Mejiadeu calls to stop treating online grooming as tech wizardry and to re-centre children’s unmet social needs.

Do you want to share your views on how Ofsted should conceptualise / define 'vulnerability'? If you work in an education / social care setting that is inspected by Ofsted, then we'd love you to contribute to a regional focus group... SEE HERE TO REGISTER: researchinpractice.org.uk/children/news-…

At this point people just need to be honest and say that Chris Kaba deserved to be s*ot in the head by the police because he was in gang. No if’s buts or maybes. He had what was coming to him, right? Live by the g*n, die by the g*n, yeah? Here’s the problem with this perspective:

Fantastic work, part of the Photoworks weekender (and if you’re 5, really fun to try and follow the camera)

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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.