sometimes I think targeted ads on social media are getting very smart, but then a Β£600 a night hotel comes up on my feed.
BASW has serious concerns about the use of systems developed by companies where there are concerns about ethical practice, such as Palantir. π²
We support innovation where it genuinely improves outcomes but social work must remain a human profession centred on care, relationships & social justice.
has anybody bought Lucy and Yak dungarees and are they worth the Β£75 price tag
Recent comments made in The Telegraph by Conservative Party Leader, Kemi Badenoch MP about social workers were deeply offensive and ill-informed. β
Today our Interim CEO has written to Mrs Badenoch to call her out on the language and tone she used in describing social workers.
ok I saw the buzz about Darren Jones and I went and had a look, and I'm not uninterested so that's good
If successive governments hadn't criminally underfunded social services, MPs wouldn't need to act like social workers.
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spending the weekend in Birmingham for the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme residential weekend β¨ππΌ
I've got a c-section booked this autumn, for no other reason than it's MY decision to have MY baby from MY body that way.
It's between me and my doctor, and nobody else's business.
Remember when Theresa May said she wasn't going to and then went on a walking holiday and then called one?
For the record, the somethings I want my government to do should be good things.