Opening of the 2023 SocialWorkUnivEdin staff/student research conference. Thanks to রবীণ সেন Robin Sen Autumn Roesch-Marsh🌻💙🧡 and Neil Hume for organising.

Today we publish findings that show that providing family group conferencing at pre-proceedings can keep children with their families and out of care. Find out more: foundations.org.uk/wp-content/upl… with Coram

"This is a national scandal. University bosses could have settled this before now and avoided this disruption." The sector has a surplus of £2.6bn, UCEA can absolutely afford to come back to the table. Our Scotland Official Mary Senior on ScotlandTonight. #ucuRISING

Entering the final month of PhD student interviews and would still love to hear from: - those who recently completed their PhD and studied on a part time basis. - those who began but withdrew from a PhD programme. Please do get in touch via email or DM if you have any questions!

And we're off... Recruiting another round of 30 Chancellor's Fellows across The University of Edinburgh, deadline 28th August. Find out more here: ed.ac.uk/human-resource…

I've got a rare service manager vacancy in Camden Family Early Help. If you're passionate about families feeling they can live well, committed to community, unequivocal on rights-led relational practice and can bring love to the work, come have a look 👇🏻 ecum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

£200m is also the amount of new investment the UK Government has promised for the whole of the children's social care system in England during the next TWO YEARS. This from the same mob who lectured us all about there being no magic money trees.

Job alert, great opportunity coming up in our social work team👇🏼 jobs.ac.uk/job/DAZ183/lec…

My team is advertising a role for a research assistant to work alongside us on the Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing study (sites.exeter.ac.uk/fgcstudy/). The study is led by me in CASCADE, Cardiff University, and is a collaboration with University of Exeter Medical School.

This training is for anyone working with primary aged children so will be suitable for teaching staff, out-of-school practitioners, youth workers and children’s services. For more information about Healthy Respect training see bit.ly/HealthyRespect…

An important new paper from Omar Mohamed on FGCs how we can value indigenous communities experiences and knowledge, well worth a read: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

New blog - Positive Partnership in FGC from Kar-Man (Camden•CASCADE•RelationalActivism•RHUL ) and Tim Fisher for the Family and Group Conferencing for Adults research project.Adult FGC Research Sharanya Mahesh Phil Kinghorn Dr Mary Mitchell Community Catalysts #FamilyGroupConference #AdultSocialCare #SocialWork fgcforadults.org.uk/positive-partn…

Three (!) fully-funded PhD studentships in adult social care research at CARE Research Wales findaphd.com/phds/project/e… findaphd.com/phds/project/e… findaphd.com/phds/project/c… Funding from Health and Care Research Wales Economic and Social Research Council Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences Cardiff Business School IMPACT NIHR School for Social Care Research Social Care Wales ADSS Cymru

If you are interested in this exciting Research Fellow post, do get in touch!

Very excited to be working in partnership with you on this amazing opportunity to improve how we deliver services to children, young people, and families in Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire Council, mary glasgow 💜📚 🐶🚲🇪🇺 🏊‍♀️⛷ #bairnshoose

Community groups in Edinburgh are being offered free University room hire, thanks to a new scheme. Local groups will be able to hold meetings, workshops, events and even rehearsals without the financial burden of room hire costs. Edinburgh Local edin.ac/44h9CMN

Applications close Friday 19th April for this exciting job opportunity.

New blog from Tim Fisher and I Kar-Man (Camden•CASCADE•RelationalActivism•RHUL ) for Adult FGC Research - FGC Plans Sharanya Mahesh Dr Mary Mitchell Phil Kinghorn Community Catalysts #FGC #AdultSocialCare communitycatalysts.co.uk/fgcforadults/f…

We are recruiting for the role of Team Leader Glasgow, as part of our Glasgow Wellbeing Service! Use your skills and experience to positively impact the lives of children & families in Glasgow. Find out more 👉 ow.ly/F49y50RqMbr

Why is this still allowed to happen I left care in 1983 and this practice was thrown out. I know no parents who would allow their child to live like this so why are we allowing corporate responsibilities to be exercised in this way. There is a better way.