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This @TheIFS analysis of the 2025/26 local government finance settlement calculates it’s a 6.4% real terms increase. While substantial, it will still be a stretch to fund extra #socialcare costs, driven especially by the NICs increases for care providers. ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs...

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I don't think it is any surprise that these are the charges which the police are "considering" - hard to see why they would have invesitgated otherwise as most clinical errors are civil cases. But consdiering is a long way from actually bringing charges.

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Bought for £215k in Dec 2018 Following Kathleen’s subsequent move to a nursing home in 2021, aged 97, the flat was put up for sale in March 2021 by her daughter, Deborah Whale for £225,000. The price was gradually reduced until it was finally sold, over 3 years later, in July 2024 for £100,000

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Published this week’s newsletter a day early open.substack.com/pub/vic15/p/...

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You don’t need to be rude to get your point across. As the Pink Floyd roadie said: “Good manners don't cost nothin', do they, eh?” hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

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Has any other democratic country pardoned violent criminals on this scale? There’s something almost medieval about it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Such a great prize & all you need to do is listen to the episode & post your reflection to be in with a chance of winning. The book is brilliant!

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Unfortunately, it seems an opportune moment to repost this story from last year.

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open.substack.com/pub/vic15/p/... newsletter from yesterday - share if you find it useful. I publish most Sundays

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My new blog post Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...

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Introducing my partner to a Prime cooking show which has just said ‘chop your spaghetti into little pieces’ and I think I’ve broken his Italian heart

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important announcement: there is a new baby capybara at the San Antonio Zoo named Tupi. i would lay down my life for Tupi

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Would you check out this job ad, who wouldn't want to work with Donald. If I wasn't at the other end of the country I'd be tempted. Imagine getting paid to swim, cycle, explore and chill. Love @cchangescotland.bsky.social. This is like a Flourishing Lives job ad @sarasiobhan.bsky.social 🙌

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2024's anti incumbency wave strikes again

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Potato 🥔

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Only two more weeks until all the single career women in New York go home to their parents and fall in love with a lumberjack widower who hasn't celebrated Christmas since the mother of his only child died.

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Currrently struggling with rail challenges to get back to London and doing my best at zen like ‘there’s nothing I can do to change the situation’ with intermittent success

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I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health. And all this goes on unacknowledged. Long read for The i Paper: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: - 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food. - 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected. Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?

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Today we celebrate #IDPD2024 with the theme "Amplifying the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities for an Inclusive & Sustainable Future." Let’s build a world where leadership knows no barriers & disabled voices lead the way. #LeadershipWithoutBarriers #AmplifyDisabilityLeadership #NoOneLeftBehind

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Social Work Cats & Rocket Science book 2 available for pre order from online book shops now. Huge thanks to @sarasiobhan.bsky.social & School of Rock and Media for writing the forwards @robmitch92.bsky.social

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Today marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the theme of which this year is 'Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future'. 1/ www.un.org/en/observanc... #IDPD24

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PODCAST: Moving the NHS from analogue to digital is one of the health secretary's top priorities. So what will it take?  Our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon discusses with Erik Mayer and Holly Krelle. Listen now 🎧 https://buff.ly/3VgkreF

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So, a question I’m pondering in advance of a team development day this week. In the NHS (in England specifically) , (rather than LA) what is the role of directly employed social workers? I have some answers from my perspective but interested in views of others

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Submitted an abstract for a conference (not as sole author and with a lot of help from more experienced academics) and quite excited. Ended up booking flight to where conference is because I’ll go regardless of whether it is chosen

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Just published this week's newsletter - every week I publish a free newsletter with links to a variety of social work-related stories (and some random links I like) - England focus vic15.substack.com/p/social-wor...

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1/3 🚨 Ending the culture of cover-up in the NHS: Gov plans to regulate managers with statutory barring, legal duty of candour & accountability measures to protect patients. Transparency matters! 🏥⚖️ #NHSTransparency #PatientSafety www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Just finished watching Man on the Inside on Netflix with Ted Danson and really enjoyed it.

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This is the problem, you have to question everything…even your own beliefs

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Mental Health Bill walkthrough: www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/mental-healt...

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Just published this week's newsletter - every week I publish a free newsletter with links to a variety of social work-related stories (and some random links I like) - England focus vic15.substack.com/p/social-wor...

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One of my tasks today for some voluntary work I’m doing is to come up with a working definition of ‘social justice’ regardless the scope of a new group which is forming (my comment was, we have to define it before we can do it). Any ideas/thoughts beyond ‘just google’

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Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act

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We are also working on a #singlesessionintervention for parents of teens who are struggling with their mood. We need uk based parents of 13-18 year olds to help us - by taking part in online interviews - email [email protected] if interested

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