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- BASW | Difference between British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and Social Workers Union (SWU) - https://new.basw.co.uk/articles/difference-between-british-association-social-workers-basw-and-social-workers-union-swu
- BBC News | NHS psych ward period provision criticised by patients - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66988651 (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- BMJ Leader | Healthcare Inequalities and Social Justice Blog Series: Transcultural leadership, anti-racism, and psychological safety - https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjleader/2023/10/18/transcultural-leadership-anti-racism-and-psychological-safety-by-by-mushtag-kahin-and-dr-nagina-khan/
- Children & Young People Now | Largest children’s home providers make ￡300m in annual profit - https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/largest-children-s-home-providers-make-300m-in-annual-profit?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1698142457
- Community Care | Black, male and 40-plus social workers disproportionately subject to fitness to practise process - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/02/black-male-and-40-plus-social-workers-disproportionately-subject-to-fitness-to-practise-process/
- Community Care | DHSC seeks new chief social worker for adults in ￡100k role - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/23/dhsc-seeks-new-chief-social-worker-for-adults-in-100k-role/ (see below)
- Community Care | Fund return to social work scheme and boost admin support to tackle vacancies, LGA urges government - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/20/fund-return-to-social-work-scheme-and-boost-admin-support-to-tackle-vacancies-lga-urges-government/
- Community Care | How much unpaid overtime do social workers work? - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/09/14/unpaid-hours-overtime-social-workers-readers-take/
- Community Care | How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/12/how-negative-perceptions-of-social-workers-are-reinforced-in-the-media/
- Community Care | Minister sidesteps question on whether government will proceed with Mental Health Act reform - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/23/minister-sidesteps-question-on-whether-government-will-proceed-with-mental-health-act-reform/
- Community Care | Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/18/moving-from-compliance-to-professional-curiosity-for-social-workers-key-to-improvement-report/
- Community Care | Skills for Care to develop social care workforce strategy - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/12/skills-for-care-to-develop-social-care-workforce-strategy/
- Community Care | Social care inequalities deepening due to cost of living crisis and squeezed council budgets, says CQC - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/20/social-care-inequalities-deepening-due-to-cost-of-living-crisis-and-squeezed-council-budgets-says-cqc/
- Community Care | ‘Very bad’ employers exploiting overseas social care staff, warns government migration adviser - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/08/01/very-bad-employers-exploiting-overseas-social-care-staff-warns-government-migration-adviser/
- Department of Health and Social Care | Social work with adults | Black History Month: reflections on allyship - https://socialworkwithadults.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/24/black-history-month-reflections-on-allyship/ ??????
- Diverse Educators | How to promote an anti-racist culture in social work - https://www.diverseeducators.co.uk/how-to-promote-an-anti-racist-culture-in-social-work/
- Exact Editions | Reading List: Black History Month UK - https://blog.exacteditions.com/reading-list-black-history-month-uk/
- Metro | ‘Black men are more likely to get prostate cancer. We need to talk about it’ - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/14/black-men-more-likely-to-get-prostate-cancer-we-need-to-discuss-it-19627145/
- Metro | If Suella Braverman were white, she wouldn’t get away with spouting the hate she does - https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/19/if-suella-braverman-were-white-she-wouldnt-get-away-with-spouting-hate-19523269/
- Metro | It took me 10 years to realise I’d been a victim of hate crime - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/20/it-took-me-10-years-to-realise-id-been-a-victim-of-disability-hate-crime-19690700/ (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- Metro | My dad only wanted to help kids in Rwanda, but now I see he was also being a white saviour - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/14/my-dad-wanted-to-help-kids-in-rwanda-but-he-was-also-a-white-saviour-19632217/
- Metro | Refugee kids are being made to feel unwelcome – so I’m giving every last one a present - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/02/jenrick-doesnt-want-refugee-kids-to-feel-welcome-so-im-giving-them-gifts-19588230/
- Metro | Teach Black History in schools all year round but call it what it is - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/12/black-history-is-too-vast-to-be-taught-over-just-one-month-19618558/
- Metro | The people left homeless and pushed to the brink by Universal Credit - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/15/universal-credit-leaves-more-than-170000-homeless-and-on-the-brink-19652251/
- Metro | You can thank Black inventors for GIFs, Google Maps… and the Super Soaker - https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/22/black-history-month-10-black-inventors-who-changed-history-19694162/
- Pause | Ten years of Pause - https://www.pause.org.uk/news/ten-years-of-pause/
- Professional Social Work | A BASW stalwart who was ‘always on the right side of the arguments’ - https://production.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/basw-stalwart-who-was-always-right-side-arguments
- Professional Social Work | An open letter to senior managers, line managers and practice educators - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/open-letter-senior-managers-line-managers-and-practice
- Professional Social Work | Ban schools permanently excluding children who have a social worker - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/ban-schools-permanently-excluding-children-who-have-social
- Professional Social Work | Care experience now a protected characteristic at 58 councils - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/care-experience-now-protected-characteristic-58-councils
- Professional Social Work | Chancellor called to raise mileage rate for social workers - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/chancellor-called-raise-mileage-rate-social-workers
- Professional Social Work | New national rules to curb over-reliance on costly agency social workers - https://production.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/new-national-rules-curb-over-reliance-costly-agency-social
- Professional Social Work | Social work recruitment crisis highlighted as barrier to children's social care reform - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/social-work-recruitment-crisis-highlighted-barrier
- Professional Social Work | Ten concerns about the Illegal Migration Act every social worker should know - https://new.basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/ten-concerns-about-illegal-migration-act-every-social
- Skills for Care | #SalutingOurSisters: Carmen Gardier shares her career story this Black History Month - https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/news-and-events/blogs/salutingoursisters-carmen-gardier-shares-her-career-story-this-black-history-month
- Social Work Today | Large increase in homelessness among young people leaving care in last four years - https://www.socialworktoday.co.uk/News/Large-increase-in-homelessness-among-young-people-leaving-care-in-last-four-years
- The Guardian | After 13 years of Tory law and order, there has never been a better time to be a criminal - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/law-and-order-tory-criminal-ministers-crime-marks-and-spencer
- The Guardian | Black History Month to celebrate women and UK’s Windrush generation - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/black-history-month-women-uk-windrush-generation-october
- The Guardian | Boy rammed off bike by London police still suffers nightmares, says counsellor - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/19/boy-rammed-off-bike-by-london-police-still-suffers-nightmares-says-counsellor
- The Guardian | Britain has always been a melting pot, Suella Braverman - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/oct/08/britain-was-always-a-melting-pot-multiculturalism-suella-braverman
- The Guardian | Calls for strategy on ‘social prescribing’ in England amid youth mental health crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/22/calls-for-strategy-on-social-prescribing-in-england-amid-youth-mental-health-crisis
- The Guardian | Conditions at Manston centre for asylum seekers ‘unacceptable’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/23/conditions-at-manston-centre-for-asylum-seekers-unacceptable
- The Guardian | England and Wales judges told not to jail criminals as prisons full – report - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/oct/12/england-and-wales-judges-told-not-to-jail-criminals-because-prisons-full-report
- The Guardian | Exhausted, but still cruel, the Tories continue to detach themselves from ordinary voters - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/23/exhausted-cruel-tories-voters-freeze-benefits-jeremy-hunt
- The Guardian | Family of black boy rammed by Met police car win fight for IOPC inquiry - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/20/family-of-black-boy-rammed-by-met-police-car-win-fight-for-iopc-inquiry
- The Guardian | Government faces legal challenge over ‘unlawful segregation’ of asylum seekers - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/25/government-legal-challenge-unlawful-segregation-asylum-seekers
- The Guardian | Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/26/half-of-britons-cant-name-a-black-british-historical-figure-survey-finds
- The Guardian | High-risk prisoners sit GCSE English – and many outperform peers on outside - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/24/high-risk-prisoners-sit-gcse-english-and-many-outperform-peers-on-outside
- The Guardian | I have a new job, but the thought of universal credit still gives me anxiety - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/new-job-anxiety-universal-credit-jeremy-hunt-claimants
- The Guardian | Inequality leaving 115,000 dementia cases ‘undiagnosed’ in England - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/23/inequality-leaving-115000-dementia-cases-undiagnosed-in-england
- The Guardian | ‘I thought it was me alone’: how the Black British book festival has grown - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/20/i-thought-it-was-me-alone-how-the-black-british-book-festival-has-grown
- The Guardian | ‘It’s frustrating for everybody’: the impact of dementia diagnosis delays - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/23/its-frustrating-for-everybody-the-impact-of-dementia-diagnosis-delays
- The Guardian | ‘It was amazing to find sisters’: Brixton Black Women’s Group on their revolutionary newsletter - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/24/speak-out-brixton-black-womens-group
- The Guardian | Jail cells without toilets persist in England despite ‘slopping out’ law - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/25/jail-cells-without-toilets-persist-england-despite-slopping-out-law
- The Guardian | Levelling up ‘must be led by England’s left behind neighbourhoods’ - https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/oct/25/levelling-up-must-be-led-by-englands-left-behind-neighbourhoods
- The Guardian | London police defy ban on badges linked to far right and white supremacy - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/14/london-police-defy-ban-on-badges-linked-to-far-right-and-white-supremacy
- The Guardian | Met officers sacked for lying in stop and search of black athletes in car - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/25/met-officers-guilty-of-gross-misconduct-over-stop-and-search-of-black-athletes
- The Guardian | Met police officer under investigation over alleged racially aggravated assault - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/23/met-police-officer-under-investigation-over-alleged-racially-aggravated-assault
- The Guardian | MoJ to free up cells by deporting more foreign prisoners and axing short terms - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/16/moj-to-free-up-cells-by-deporting-more-foreign-prisoners-and-axing-short-terms
- The Guardian | More than 1 million UK children experienced destitution last year, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/24/more-than-1-million-uk-children-experienced-destitution-last-year-study-finds
- The Guardian | ‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/25/pervasive-and-relentless-racism-on-the-rise-in-europe-survey-finds
- The Guardian | Politicians and prisons have made us stir crazy - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/22/politicians-and-prisons-have-made-us-stir-crazy
- The Guardian | Probation officers fear repeat of failings in murder case as pressures mount - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/23/probation-officers-fear-repeat-of-failings-in-case-as-pressures-mount
- The Guardian | Should I worry about being tired all the time? - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/22/should-i-worry-about-being-tired-all-the-time
- The Guardian | Showing support for young asylum seekers - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/showing-support-for-young-asylum-seekers
- The Guardian | Staff accuse Lambeth council of institutional racism - https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/01/staff-accuse-lambeth-council-of-institutional-racism
- The Guardian | Staff shortages forcing England’s prisons into emergency ‘red’ measures - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/19/england-prisons-emergency-red-measures-staff-shortages
- The Guardian | The prison system is failing inmates and the public alike - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/16/the-prison-system-is-failing-inmates-and-the-public-alike
- The Guardian | There are no quick or easy solutions to the crisis in our prisons and probation - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/17/there-are-no-quick-or-easy-solutions-to-the-crisis-in-our-prisons-and-probation
- The Guardian | The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/tories-poverty-destitute-history-politics
- The Guardian | Tory candidate shared post using foul language towards struggling parents - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/18/tory-candidate-andrew-cooper-foulmouthed-outburst-at-jobless-parents
- The Guardian | Two-thirds of prisons officially overcrowded in England and Wales - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/15/two-thirds-prisons-officially-overcrowded-england-wales
- The Guardian | UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity
- The Guardian | UK politicians and campaigners call for reparative justice for African slave trade - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/21/uk-politicians-and-campaigners-call-for-reparative-justice-for-african-slave-trade
- The Guardian | UK risks scandal over ‘bias’ in AI tools in use across public sector - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/23/uk-risks-scandal-over-bias-in-ai-tools-in-use-across-public-sector
- The Guardian | University students in England ‘have 50p a week to live on after rent’ - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/26/university-students-england-50p-a-week-after-rent
- The Guardian view on probation: the service has not recovered from a privatisation disaster - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/the-guardian-view-on-probation-the-service-has-not-recovered-from-a-privatisation-disaster
- The Guardian view on rising homelessness: a crisis made in government - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/23/the-guardian-view-on-rising-homelessness-a-crisis-made-in-government
- The Guardian | Why the collapse of Britain’s prison system is good news - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/collapse-britain-prison-system-good-news-jails
- The Health Foundation| Social care workforce crisis - https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/blogs/social-care-workforce-crisis
- The Independent | ‘All that is missing is a whip’: How Home Office ignored migrant worker abuses on farms - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-modern-slavery-reports-b2432624.html (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- The Independent | Asylum seekers return to the Bibby Stockholm barge after legionella scare as protesters block entry - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bibby-stockholm-portland-migrants-home-office-b2432317.html
- The Independent | Black models to boycott Melbourne Fashion Week in racism row - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/racism-boycott-melbourne-fashion-show-b2435809.html
- The Independent | Britain risks being ‘left in the cold’ by ignoring demands for slavery reparations, MP warns - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/slavery-reparations-britain-mp-ignore-b2433013.html
- The Independent | Children waiting years for autism and cerebral palsy treatment as NHS chiefs slam government inaction - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-children-waiting-list-england-b2432337.html
- The Independent | Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson waxwork to be redesigned after actor criticises skin colour - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dwayne-johnson-statue-wax-skin-colour-b2434839.html
- The Independent | In charge yet totally out of their depth: The rise of the ‘accidental manager’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bad-manager-work-b2433213.html
- The Independent | I was the wrong colour to perform at the London Olympics – acting is still run by the white middle classes - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/white-male-actors-black-colourblind-casting-difficult-gregory-doran-b2431655.html
- The Independent | Leigh-Anne Pinnock addresses backlash to 2021 race documentary: ‘It hurt more to get stick from my community’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/leigh-anne-pinnock-backlash-racism-music-documentary-colourism-b2433924.html
- The Independent | Lenny Henry and the cast of Three Little Birds on their powerful Windrush drama: ‘Our long existence here isn’t a fairytale’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/three-little-birds-lenny-henry-interview-b2433079.html
- The Independent | Number of children living in extreme poverty nearly triples in five years - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/poverty-children-dwp-energy-bills-food-b2434506.html
- The Independent | Police officer could face criminal charges after Black mother wrongly arrested in bus fare row - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/black-woman-bus-arrest-croydon-police-b2434372.html
- The Independent | Tories accused of dog-whistle low as minister claims new towns will be ‘filled with illegal migrants’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-tories-migrants-new-towns-b2435115.html
- The Independent | Two Met officers sacked over ‘racist’ stop and search of Black athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/met-police-misconduct-bianca-williams-b2435668.html
- The Independent | Where have all the judges gone? Record number of trials delayed over staffing crisis - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/courts-backlog-trials-cancelled-judges-b2429383.html
- The Voice | Black disabled face additional hurdles - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/black-british-voices/2023/10/24/black-disabled-face-additional-hurdles/
- The Voice | Black parent-child experiences of racism affect whole family’s mental health, new study - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/18/black-parent-child-experiences-of-racism-affect-whole-familys-mental-health-new-study/
- The Voice | “Institutional racism applies to South Wales Police,” says chief police constable - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/13/institutional-racism-applies-to-south-wales-police-says-chief-police-constable/
- The Voice | Labour still labouring on race - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2023/10/10/labour-still-labouring-on-race/
- The Voice | Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful water gun - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/19/mother-expresses-shock-over-violent-arrest-of-13-year-old-son/
- The Voice | Pay Black workers for organising BHM activities - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2023/10/03/pay-black-workers-for-organising-bhm-activities/
- The Voice | Peckham Strangler: “These people” will keep paying me - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/13/peckham-strangler-these-people-will-keep-paying-me/ (TRIGGER WARNING!) ??
- The Voice | Race ‘more important’ than religion - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/black-british-voices/2023/10/24/race-more-important-than-religion/
- The Voice | Time to bin BAME - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/black-british-voices/2023/09/29/time-to-bin-bame/
- The Voice | UK’s first Reparations Conference that brings together grassroots activists with Parliamentarians, gets backing from top campaigner - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/19/uks-first-reparations-conference-gets-backing-from-top-activist/
- The Voice | ‘We can make reparations happen’ - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/21/we-can-make-reparations-happen/
- The Voice | ‘We’re talked down to’ - https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/10/23/were-talked-down-to/
- Think Local Act Personal | Money changes everything – why we need to re-embrace empowerment through direct payments - Click here
- UNISON | Migrant care staff in UK ‘exploited and harassed’ by employers, says UNISON - https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2023/07/migrant-care-staff-in-uk-exploited-and-harassed-by-employers-says-unison/
- Womanthology | ?Challenging injustice and amplifying voices from Black and minoritised backgrounds - https://www.womanthology.co.uk/challenging-injustice-and-amplifying-voices-from-black-and-minoritised-backgrounds/
- Yahoo! News | Council won’t celebrate Black History Month, faces backlash - https://news.yahoo.com/council-won-t-celebrate-black-211702371.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall & https://news.yahoo.com/tory-council-accused-racist-agenda-133119637.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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