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- BASW | Difference between British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and Social Workers Union (SWU) - https://www.basw.co.uk/media/news/2022/oct/difference-between-british-association-social-workers-basw-and-social-workers
- Community Care | Adult social care vacancy numbers fall slightly from all-time high but still top 150,000 - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/12/adult-social-care-vacancy-numbers-fall-slightly-from-all-time-high-but-still-top-150000/
- Community Care | DfE likely to go ahead with agency social work restrictions – sector leader - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/12/dfe-likely-to-go-ahead-with-rules-restricting-agency-social-work-suggests-sector-leader/
- Community Care | Government no longer funding social care race equality scheme - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/06/government-no-longer-funding-social-care-race-equality-scheme/
- Community Care | How social workers’ role would change under Working Together overhaul - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/11/how-social-workers-role-would-change-under-working-together-overhaul/
- Community Care | How to promote an anti-racist culture in social work - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2020/07/17/promote-anti-racist-culture-social-work/
- Community Care | Ofsted and BASW raise safeguarding concerns over allowing non-social workers to hold child in need cases - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/12/ofsted-and-basw-raise-safeguarding-concerns-over-allowing-non-social-workers-to-hold-child-in-need-cases/
- Community Care | Some social work students face delays to joining workforce due to marking boycott - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/07/some-social-work-students-face-delays-to-joining-workforce-due-to-marking-boycott/
- Community Care | The key challenges facing practice educators today - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/07/04/the-key-challenges-facing-practice-educators-today/
- Co-operative Merv Unleashed | Health and Social Care integration: The Myth and the Reality. A Social Worker's Perspective - https://cooperativemervunleashed.blogspot.com/2023/07/health-and-social-care-integration-myth.html
- I News | Allowing asylum seekers to work in UK would add over ￡1bn to economy as cross-party MPs back change - https://inews.co.uk/news/allowing-asylum-seekers-work-uk-economy-cross-party-mp-change-2198216
- Luke Clements | Consultation on the revision of the ‘Working Together’ guidance - https://www.lukeclements.co.uk/consultation-on-the-revision-of-the-working-together-guidance/
- Metro | Asylum seeker tormented by fears for family who ‘don’t want to die’ - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/09/sudan-war-asylum-seeker-wants-to-bring-family-to-uk-amid-civil-war-19074153/ (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- Metro | At 29, I quit my job to become a foster carer for mums and babies - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/10/at-29-i-quit-my-job-to-become-a-foster-carer-for-mums-and-babies-19022152/
- Metro | Disabled woman refused entry into Primark because of her guide dog - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/11/disabled-woman-refused-entry-into-leeds-primark-because-of-guide-dog-19108790/
- Metro | I fly business class – and regularly have people assuming I don’t belong there - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/06/i-fly-business-class-and-regularly-have-people-assuming-i-dont-belong-there-18982690/
- Metro | I’m in my mid-40s, homeless and caring for two dogs - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/10/im-in-my-mid-40s-homeless-and-caring-for-two-dogs-19025047/
- Metro | Immigrants like me are the lifeblood of the NHS - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/05/immigrants-like-me-are-the-lifeblood-of-the-nhs-19014076/
- Metro | My mother was violent and addicted to alcohol. Then she did something I’ll never forgive - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/12/my-mother-was-violent-and-had-an-addiction-19032584/ (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- Metro | My mum broke my heart with three simple words - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/11/my-mum-broke-my-heart-with-three-simple-words-19039316/ (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- Metro | Soaps are starting to show the messy and important reality of coming to terms with a disability - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/12/soaps-are-showing-the-messy-reality-of-coming-to-terms-with-disability-19114314/
- Metro | ‘When one foster child arrived, she behaved like an adult as she’d had to parent her mum’ - https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/02/children-in-care-uk-foster-parents-share-their-experiences-19039153/
- Professional Social Work | Massive support for BASW stand on asylum age assessment recruitment - https://www.basw.co.uk/resources/psw-magazine/psw-online/massive-support-basw-stand-asylum-age-assessment-recruitment
- The Conversation | How did the social care system end up in crisis and how can it be fixed? Expert Q&A - https://theconversation.com/how-did-the-social-care-system-end-up-in-crisis-and-how-can-it-be-fixed-expert-qanda-208920
- The Guardian | Celebrities back Unicef UK appeal for urgent government child support - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/11/celebrities-back-unicef-uk-appeal-for-urgent-government-child-support
- The Guardian | Crisis in NHS maternity units revealed as 21 rated ‘substandard’ - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/09/nhs-maternity-units-crisis-care-quality-commission-substandard
- The Guardian | Detectives accused of bungling first Stephen Lawrence inquiry will not face charges - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/detectives-bungling-first-stephen-lawrence-inquiry-will-not-face-charges
- The Guardian | Distress in England’s young adults has risen sharply since Covid, study shows - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/06/distress-england-young-adults-risen-sharply-since-covid-study-shows
- The Guardian | First asylum seekers brought to military base as challenges reach high court - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/12/first-asylum-seekers-brought-to-military-base-as-challenges-reach-high-court
- The Guardian | Gove’s department hands back ￡1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/12/gove-department-hands-back-19bn-meant-tackle-england-housing-crisis
- The Guardian | Highly skilled doctors like me once helped shape the NHS – now we’re cogs in a broken machine - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/doctors-nhs-broken-consultants-cuts-patients-strike
- The Guardian | Home care providers in England fear collapse over unpaid invoices - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/13/home-care-providers-england-fear-collapse-unpaid-invoices
- The Guardian | Home Office had murals for children removed at second asylum centre - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/12/home-office-had-murals-for-children-removed-at-second-asylum-centre
- The Guardian | Home Office paying for thousands of empty beds reserved for asylum seekers - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/10/home-office-paying-for-thousands-of-empty-beds-reserved-for-asylum-seekers
- The Guardian | Housing asylum seekers on barge may only save ￡10 a person daily, report says - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/11/housing-asylum-seekers-on-barge-may-only-save-10-a-person-daily-report-says
- The Guardian | I like to think I’m a capable person, but even I can’t navigate Britain’s benefits system - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/britain-benefits-system-universal-credit
- The Guardian | I’m a psychologist with a history of anxiety. Treating it as a permanent problem might make young people feel worse - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/09/psychologist-anxiety-personality-trait-children-sick
- The Guardian | Inquest to examine Ofsted’s role in lead-up to death of headteacher Ruth Perry - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/11/inquest-to-examine-ofsteds-role-in-lead-up-to-death-of-headteacher-ruth-perry (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- The Guardian | I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/10/prison-officer-cuts-staff-attrition
- The Guardian | Jenrick stepped up to the dispatch box. Cometh the hour, cometh the halfwit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/11/robert-jenrick-dispatch-box-illegal-immigration-bill
- The Guardian | Key pillars of illegal migration bill have been abandoned, says Patel - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/key-pillars-of-migration-bill-have-been-abandoned-says-patel
- The Guardian | Labour must better support aspiring black MPs, says Bernie Grant’s widow - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/labour-must-better-support-aspiring-black-mps-says-bernie-grants-widow
- The Guardian | Lack of NHS home care ‘forces 855,000 older people into English hospitals each year’ - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/11/900000-older-people-ae-lack-of-nhs-care-at-home
- The Guardian | Legal aid cuts denying vulnerable women access to justice, says thinktank - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/13/legal-aid-cuts-vulnerable-women-access-justice-budget-england-wales
- The Guardian | Man, 20, who wanted race war jailed for Newcastle police station bomb plot - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/11/former-student-jailed-plotting-blow-up-newcastle-police-station-luke-skelton
- The Guardian | Man jailed for arson murder of neighbour and her two children - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/07/man-jailed-for-arson-of-neighbour-and-her-two-children
- The Guardian | My trafficker is behind bars, but if the UK’s new migration bill passes, my story would have ended very differently - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/trafficker-behind-bars-uk-migration-bill-modern-slavery
- The Guardian | My white friends trivialise racism by labelling everything racist. How do I tell them to stop? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/my-white-friends-trivialise-racism-by-labelling-everything-racist-how-do-i-tell-them-to-stop
- The Guardian | NHS end-of-life care in England ‘variable and inequitable’ says watchdog - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/13/nhs-end-of-life-care-in-england-variable-and-inequitable-says-watchdog
- The Guardian | Racism is ‘stain’ on NHS for staff and patients, says psychiatry chief - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/racism-stain-nhs-royal-college-of-psychiatrists
- The Guardian | Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/09/revealed-childrens-care-homes-flood-into-cheapest-areas-of-england-not-where-most-needed
- The Guardian | Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/07/rightwing-lobby-group-campaigns-to-undermine-uk-four-day-week
- The Guardian | Rise in vulnerable women dying early in north-east England, report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/rising-number-vulnerable-women-dying-early-north-east-england-report
- The Guardian | Rishi Sunak suffers string of further defeats in Lords over small boats bill - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/rishi-sunak-suffers-string-of-further-defeats-in-lords-over-small-boats-bill
- The Guardian | Robert Jenrick going to war with Mickey Mouse is no surprise – this government is anti-child to its core - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/robert-jenrick-mickey-mouse-anti-child-painting-over-mural-conservative-families
- The Guardian | Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/07/robert-jenrick-has-cartoon-murals-painted-over-at-childrens-asylum-centre
- The Guardian | Safeguarding in ‘crisis’ in Church of England, says archbishop of York - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/safeguarding-crisis-church-of-england-archbishop-of-york
- The Guardian | Senior Tories attack illegal migration bill as Lords amendments overturned - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/11/senior-tories-attack-migration-bill-as-lords-amendments-overturned
- The Guardian | Social workers should not assess asylum seeker ages for Home Office, professional body says - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/15/social-workers-should-not-assess-ages-of-asylum-seekers-professional-body-says
- The Guardian | Teachers in England vote for strike action in autumn over pay - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/12/teachers-in-england-vote-to-strike-in-autumn-over-pay
- The Guardian | Tests to assess newborns’ health not effective for BAME babies in UK - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/12/tests-to-assess-newborns-health-not-effective-for-bame-babies-in-uk
- The Guardian | There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’ - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/29/antiracism-diversity-training-liberal-antiracists-vocabulary-direct-action
- The Guardian | Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/10/tory-rebels-offered-concessions-on-key-anti-asylum-legislation
- The Guardian | UK care operators accused of ‘shocking abuse’ of migrant workers - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/uk-care-operators-accused-of-shocking-abuse-of-migrant-workers
- The Guardian | UK charity foundation to abolish itself and give away ￡130m - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/11/uk-charity-foundation-to-abolish-itself-and-give-away-130m
- The Guardian | UK ministers planning on ‘trafficking’ people to Rwanda, says bishop - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/uk-ministers-rwanda-trafficking-bishop-of-dover-rose-hudson-wilkin
- The Guardian | ‘We were inundated’: creating pioneering homes for autistic young adults - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/10/we-were-inundated-creating-pioneering-homes-for-autistic-young-adults
- The Guardian | What is the NHS workforce plan and what has been the reaction? - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/30/what-is-the-nhs-workforce-plan-and-what-has-been-the-reaction
- The Guardian | Why was the UK’s Rwanda plan for asylum seekers ruled unlawful? - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/why-was-the-governments-rwanda-plan-for-asylum-seekers-ruled-unlawful
- The Guardian | Yes, the Tories’ migration bill is bad – but the lack of Commons scrutiny is more disturbing still - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/tories-migration-bill-parliament-rebel-mps-debate
- The Independent | Doreen Lawrence ‘profoundly concerned’ by slow pace of police reform - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/doreen-lawrence-police-reforms-corruption-b2372286.html
- The Independent | Government lodges bid to take Rwanda legal battle to Supreme Court - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-supreme-court-small-boats-migrants-b2370598.html
- The Independent | Home Office admits its paying for 5,000 empty hotel rooms for asylum seekers - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-hotels-migrants-cost-b2372715.html
- The Independent | Home Office admits: Rwanda policy may not stop small boats - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/migrants-small-boats-bill-detention-braverman-b2364364.html
- The Independent | Home Office estimates it will cost ￡169,000 to deport each asylum seeker under small boats bill - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/small-boats-illegal-migration-bill-cost-rwanda-b2364429.html
- The Independent | ‘Institutional racism is rife’ in NHS, says psychiatry chief - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-racism-england-doctors-adrian-james-b2372245.html
- The Independent | It took until my thirties to realise I might not be white - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mixed-race-uk-racism-b2372465.html
- The Independent | New n-word slur found on government website - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/racist-slur-nword-government-parliament-b2371165.html
- The Independent | No 10 rejects investigation into n-word row https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-racist-slur-investigation-refuse-b2370597.html
- The Independent | Racist slur found on Foreign Office website days after government rejected need for review - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/racist-slur-foreign-office-website-b2372566.html
- The Independent | Robert Jenrick rebuked by watchdog for false claim over criminals posing as modern slaves - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-modern-slavery-statistics-authority-b2369865.html
- The Independent | Rwanda policy ‘necessary evil’, says Tory London mayor candidate - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-sunak-braverman-tory-mayor-london-b2372685.html
- The Independent | Surge in children needing care in wake of pandemic as councils drastically overspend budgets to cope - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/councils-care-young-people-children-b2369848.html
- The Telegraph | Black British Business Awards reveal 2023 finalists - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/11/black-british-business-awards-announce-2023-finalists/
- The Voice | AI replicates anti-Blackness - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2023/07/10/ai-replicates-anti-blackness/
- The Voice | Children’s hair relaxers should be banned - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2023/07/05/childrens-hair-relaxers-should-be-banned/
- The Voice | Scrap neonatal tests based on white skin, says NHS body - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/07/12/new-assessments-for-black-newborns-are-needed-says-independent-nhs-body/
- The Voice | Schoolgirl put in isolation over her braids - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/07/09/school-accused-of-discrimination-after-pupil-put-in-isolation-for-hairstyle/
- The Voice | Should the NHS raid West Africa to fill the massive nursing gap? - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2023/07/06/should-the-nhs-raid-west-africa-to-fill-the-massive-nursing-gap/
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