Weβve spent the day on an urgent report for a child with multiple vulnerabilities and indicators of exploitation. Social workers involved suspect exploitation is a factor, yet the child remains unsevered from their adult co-defendants who police have described the child as being βsafeguarded fromβ.
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Welcome to @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social!
28.01.2025 17:37 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
βShockingβ new figures show 80 children tragically died while living in temporary accommodation in just one year. ποΈ
New statistics from the National Child Mortality Database recorded 80 deaths between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. π
Read more. β¬οΈ
https://bit.ly/40wxY3v
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This is what happens when national newspapers engage in highly irresponsible journalism to sell papers and get clicks.
Lawyers should not be targeted for doing our job
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Rwandan army βready to invade DRCβ and help rebels seize city
Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Monday
Anyone care to imagine what would have happened if the UK had sent people seeking asylum to Rwanda, particularly as the Rwandan government is notorious for forcibly conscripting refugees into the army to fight across the border in the DRC?
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
25.01.2025 15:37 β π 22 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
Identifying child criminal exploitation in Northern Ireland
Project investigating barriers to the identification and recognition of modern slavery and human trafficking of children in Northern Ireland.
Since October, Andrew Chisholm (IOM UK ) & I have been working on a project investigating barriers to the identification and recognition of modern slavery and human trafficking of children in NI. Co-funded by the NI DOJ & @modernslaverypec.bsky.social (MSPEC).
More info at: tinyurl.com/mt2tcabh
24.01.2025 17:55 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Home Office guidance on streamlined asylum processing for children - Free Movement
The Home Office has recently updated its guidance on the streamlined process for children's asylum applications. This policy was initially introduced to help
In case you missed it: Home Office guidance on streamlined asylum processing for children | Francesca Sella https://freemovement.org.uk/home-office-publishes-guidance-on-streamlined-asylum-processing-for-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=home-office-publishes-guidance-on-streamliβ¦
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Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Our report #12YearsOfModernSlavery is out now and calls on the Government to reinstate rights to protect all migrant domestic workers in the UK πͺπ½πͺπΎπͺπΏ
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Hon Prof at Durham University.
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
https://goodlaw.social/nm7n
Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Making family justice clearer.
Open Justice. Legal blogging. Explanation. Correction.
Nudging the family justice system out into the open ...
Charity (E&W).
Www.transparencyproject.org.uk
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Leading London law firm renowned for fighting for what's right and providing top-tier personal legal services.
Tel: 0330 822 5788
https://www.hja.net/
Immigration Partner, Joint Deputy Head of Immigration Department at Wilson Solicitors LLP
Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Supporting adults and children to a #LifeBeyondCrisis including victims of domestic abuse, modern slavery and those struggling with their mental health.
Home of UK SAYS NO MORE.
National charity working to end #ModernSlavery. We influence Gov & work with businesses to clean up supply chains; we run safehouses & the free, confidential, UK-wide Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline 08000 121 700.
A UK-based charity, providing refuge and freedom for survivors of modern slavery.
https://linktr.ee/medailletrust
Autistic, Mental Health & kidsβ rights advocate. Social media moderator, working with parents & organisations to support/protect/mentor boys/men.π³οΈβπ(He/Him)β€οΈβπ©Ή
Clinical psychologist. Author, trainer, TEDx speaker, WCMT2018, organisational consultant. Specialises in relational, betrayal & developmental trauma. Trauma, adversity & culturally infused, informed & responsive systems & organisations. Healing centered.
Trainer, Speaker & Author disrupting cycles of harm by helping settings, services and systems work consciously with the legacy of trauma. Living in the liminal space with #myeloma
www.lisacherry.co.uk
https://substack.com/@drlisacherry
Passionate about #Supervision in education and social care. Safeguarding children
Like to dream big- sometimes it happens
Director of Research in Practice | Strategic Director @ National Childrenβs Bureau. Trustee of Family Action.
All views & swearing my own. Expert in nowt (except maybe Transitional Safeguarding).
Actually, βranting with referencesβ is a job.