Robbie Gilligan

Thanks for your interest. Kinship care for children living in the child protection care system. Synthesising key insights from international qualitative research in this area.

Munro: children's social care reforms 'very likely to fail' due to scale of change and lack of testing - Community Care

Eileen Munro questions overhaul of child protection conference chair role and raises concerns about non-social work qualified staff taking on cases

Nine of Gaza doctor's 10 children 'killed in air strike' An Israeli air strike hit the home of a doctor in Gaza killing nine of her 10 children, according to the director of the Hamas-run Health Ministry.

This is evil.

How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?

Whay happened to “never again”?

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Pope Francis beautiful 2025 Easter message. ( which he wrote & had read )
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I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known.

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LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The Birth Charter for women with involvement from children’s social care

Kirsty Kitchen talks about the need for co-ordinated and consistent national policy and shares the @birthcompanions.bsky.social charter for women with involvement from children's social care www.birthcompanions.org.uk/resources/bi... #PartnershipC

Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.

Mississippi, once ranked 49th in #education test scores, is now among the top 20 for 4th grade reading. The state's literacy reforms offer a model for closing early literacy gaps nationwide. An education policy scholar explains (Harry Anthony Patrinos @uarkansas.bsky.social #edusky)

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid (Gift Article) A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Atlantic has released the Signal messages.

My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.

They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.

If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.

#FireHegseth #FireWaltz

Steve Baguley talks about how helpful and useful NICE's guidance is on transitions www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng43 #SupportingTransitions

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Springtime on the campus. Trinity College Dublin just now.

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

“Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian”

Local democracy in action
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So thrilled and grateful to see this generous, deeply thoughtful review.

“There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."

@davidmccullough.bsky.social

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.

That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

Photo of playground surrounded by wooden fence with blue sky in backgroun

Been visiting the Spring Hill playground for about 11 years - it’s just been redeveloped and was looking fab yesterday in the early morning. Word had spread by this today and it was jam packed with kids and parents enjoying the new amenities. Well done DLR! @marthafanning.bsky.social

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal. Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal. Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal. Portrait Wellcome Trust Collection | Map from John Snow: ‘On the mode of Communication of Cholera’ (1854).

Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of the London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.

The Etiquette of Speech How to stop talking and listen

This unlocked post is about the importance of knowing how to speak and *not* to speak to other people, to attend to others with our words and silence. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-etique...

Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

Mario Luis Small & Jessica Calarco (@jessicacalarco.bsky.social) published "For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research" in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/t...

YouTube video by Miltown Malbay Community Centre Don't... Visit Miltown Malbay

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Worth a look. The power of underselling! County #Clare, #Ireland

Overheard in #Dublin pub. The wisdom of adulthood reflecting on earlier adventures. ‘If I was around now, I wouldn’t do half the things I did then’.

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

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Architectural education & research looks doomed in USA

Banned terms include:
Climate Science
Cultural Heritage
Environmental Quality

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