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Raising Children: Safeguarding Children in Parental Deportation Decisions

The Home Office is not meeting its legal duty to safeguard children under Section 55 of the Borders Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009

New research reveals that thousands of children in the UK are having life changing decisions made about them without being heard. Read the joint report 'Raising Children: Safeguarding Children in Parental Deportation Decisions' here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research...

‼️New research reveals that thousands of children in the UK are having life changing decisions made about them without being heard.

This is the first empirical study of the legal and procedural protections afforded to children with a parent facing deportation.

Full report: tinyurl.com/46m9n5r8 1/

‼️An exciting opportunity. Could you be our next Managing Director?

⚡ We're looking for someone who is energised by, and committed to, our work and values, and who will bring new vision and fresh energy!

Find out more about the role & apply here: tinyurl.com/mvyadpue. Closing date: 9am on 12th Jan

Come and work with us! @socialworkerswb.bsky.social

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Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share!

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As more and more bad actors weaponise notions of child safety to legitimise racist attacks on immigration/migrants it’s so important to see cross-sectoral opposition! 💥

From ‘risky choices’ to ‘risky contexts’? The state of play of UK child welfare responses to adolescent ‘extra-familial harm’. National and international implications Across the globe young people are significantly harmed in relationships and spaces beyond their families and family homes. The UK appears distinct in integ

New paper considering the state of play of UK child welfare responses to extra-familial harm for the British Journal of Social Work with Rachael Owens, Jenny Lloyd and @carlenefirmin.bsky.social

#extrafamilialharm #contextualsafeguarding #childrenssocialcare

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Antonio La Picirella, Day 3 on ‘Handala’

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings!

Re-posting, in light of Casey report

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings!

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As we gear up for strike action tomorrow & Saturday, we'd like to take a moment to extend heartfelt thanks to those who've donated to our hardship fund, including: IWW Northumbria Branch (£300), UCU Birmingham (£100), the OU branch (£250) and numerous individuals giving generous personal donations.

Times & places for today's strike action:
8.30–11.00 Pickets at main crossroads entrance (by the 'What Lies Beneath' map)
11.00–12.30 SGIA Teachout: Whose History? Statues and the Politics of Decolonisation, online & in Dunelm House B16
Friday 12.30–14.30 Branch Strategy Session, Dunelm House Lounge

Our new paper is out led by @lauriewroe.bsky.social & with Delphine Peace on learning from #Contextualsafeguarding Across Borders with refugee young people in Germany. Interesting to be bilingual researcher on the project - reminder of how language/trajectories shape contexts & concepts.

#Socialworkers! #Migrantjustice activists - give Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social a follow on here 👀❤️

‘Contextual safeguarding across borders’: learning about the ‘contextual safeguarding’ framework and youth ‘extra-familial’ harm in Germany We share learning from a collaborative project involving researchers at Durham university in England and an International Non-Government Organisation (INGO) supporting refugee girls in Germany. The...

New article for European Journal of Social Work with co-authors @nhuegler.bsky.social & Delphine Peace!

Learning from the Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders research project with #refugee young people in Germany, part of the #contextualsafeguarding programme

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help.

So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

Should I cross a picket line? A: "Don't cross a picket line" can mean not going to work if your colleagues are on strike or not giving money to a business if its workers are on strike. It doesn't mean you need to disrupt your studies! To support the strike you could stop by the picket line on your way to the library, or email Uni management to ask them to work with us.

Also, while we're talking about our strike, a lot of students have been asking how they can support us (being fully aware of who actually has their backs in this uni), and what it means to cross (or not cross) a picket line in this case. We'll defer here to our excellent Instagram team on this one.

Very proud as UCUC treasurer to have authorized a payment of £500 to the Good Law Project today!

Mgt just refuses to call off compulsory redundancies, saying they want to prioritise “voluntary” severance.

This is a classic risk aversion dilemma—the more people believe the Uni will sack them anyway, the more likely they are to take the VS £ although they’d rather stay.

That’s not voluntary!

Sign sign sign!
Our jobs are on the line!

Solidarity with UCU members at Durham Univeristy Striking today.

Staff are standing up against job cuts and defending the future of education! ✊

#ProtectEducationNow #UCU

Jamie speaking to the picketers and supporters at the Durham UCU strike rally, the branch banner in the background.

Rally time! Jamie lays it out!

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs.

An attack on one is an attack on all!

Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!

We are *all* the university!

@ducu.bsky.social

Join UCU Why join UCU? Over 120,000 of your colleagues have chosen to belong to UCU - the largest union and most effective voice for people like you working in post-school education.

ON STRIKE as a member of Durham UCU in response to Durham University management’s proposed staff cuts of £20m. University management has refused DUCU requests to stop compulsory redundancies & to work with us to find non-staff cost savings. Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Full themed section for Critical and Radical Social Work with Dr Leona Vaughn @bupjournals.bsky.social now online 👀

Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety.

All available here:

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