Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Teachers we need you!

Class Divide is building a teachers network in Brighton & Hove. If you care about the class divide in our city and want to help us change it, find out more and show your interest here:
classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

Whenever I talk about high control strategies at school, I’m told that they are necessary because teenagers can’t be trusted. They aren’t going to the toilet to pee, they’re going to vape. If they could talk to each other in the corridors they would be shoving. If they didn’t…

Join me and Gillian Ruch tomorrow 20th March from 4-5pm for our webinar on #TransitionalSafeguarding and Innovation based on findings from TheInnovateProject as part of #SocialWorkWeek2024 - book here trybooking.com/uk/events/land…

Still time to book for our webinar tomorrow!

Really lovely start to a creative, hopeful and energetic #contextualsafeguarding24 conference, so pleased to be a part of it

There is just over a month to go until the deadline for the Sussex CIRCY PhD scholarship on models of engaging children & young people in research advisory groups. The deadline is 15th April ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Free TheInnovateProject webinar on Improving social care responses to #extrafamilialharm : what new practice approaches and systems offer promise? Monday 18th March 11am-12, as part of #SocialWorkWeek . With me,
Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace. Book here: theinnovateproject.co.uk/events/free-we…

An exciting opportunity to work with The Binks Hub - please share widely
efi.ed.ac.uk/call-for-parti…

Take a look at our new resources on consultation with young people

‘Doing it all: The social power of single motherhood’ by Ruby Russell is absolutely fabulous. A necessary read for everyone (including my 4 year old)

A nice start to the day. look what just arrived. You can sign up for our book launch event here: 1st May 4-5pm
theinnovateproject.co.uk/events/

I'm very honoured that the article received the award. This is a meaningful step towards the recognition of the value of children's views (pun intended).

I urge everyone to please read the article and hear what children say about their lives.

We've got an exciting opportunity at Sussex CIRCY - a new fully-funded home PhD studentship focusing on models of engaging children in research advisory groups. The PhD will be supervised by Perpetua kirby and myself. More details can be found here: sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

New paper out, w/ Michelle Lefevre & Rachel Larkin! 'Shipping containers and speed boats: Exploring the contexts and relational spaces professionals navigate to safeguard young people from criminal exploitation’. See infographic below for a summary emerald.com/insight/conten…

Enjoyed talking a bit about the work of the TheInnovateProject and some of what we’ve learned about trauma-informed practice

📣JOB ALERT📣
Deputy Head of Safeguarding
📍London | 📄Full time | 💷 £46,940

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about working alongside #younglondoners to create real change 👇 bit.ly/3MGKDet

Another article out in the world with lovely collaborators - Grateful for any RT
The space before, the space beyond: Activism, relationships and social change in the neo‐liberal academy - Davidson - Children & Society - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ch…

🏆 Well done to Katie Hildreth, MA Childhood and Youth Student, for winning the 'Social Work Prize for Outstanding Performance.' 🎉
Her dissertation is: 'Exploring Reanimating Data as a Queer Research Method in the Retrospective Accounts of Childhood and Weight.'

Loved having our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Imagining Resistance project quilt on display at the The Feminist Library as part of their Resistance Exhibition! Camille Warrington