Milky Way as seen from Mars.

RECRUITING-For a Service Manager to support our intergrated mental health services across Bradford District bradford.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/58… a really exciting to join Bradford working in partnership with our partners #Bradford #Mentalhealth Rob Mitchell Iain MacBeath Therese Patten

.Elaine James stressed that voting was a human right and that there was no prohibition on this based on mental capacity. However, it's widely believed that there is such a prohibition electoralcommission.org.uk/running-electo…

.Rob Mitchell said this work was just what social workers were trained in. However, while 67% of respondents to BASW's latest survey agreed it was part of SWs' role, just 19% had supported a person to vote as part of their role new.basw.co.uk/sites/default/…

At the ADASS #springseminar24 today. Have just interviewed new president Melanie Williams and now hearing from Elaine James and Rob Mitchell on the #promotethevote campaign and the role of social workers in enabling disabled people to exercise their suffrage

How much power should we give #minipublics ? To what extent should we defer to decisions of an unelected, randomly selected group of ordinary citizens?

Our special issue on DEMOCRACY WITHOUT SHORTCUTS discusses Cristina Lafont's critique of minipublics 🔖

delibdemjournal.org/issue/65/info/

Tomorrow is the recruitment fair at the University of Hull- be sure to pop along and ask questions Hull Social Work Academy will be ready to share what we do! Why Hull is a great place to work and why we love Social Work. Hull Social Work Academy

We had fun-filled week at People First Keighley and Craven last week!

After our monthly Board Meeting, all our members have been going through what we discussed – as well as the members of the podcast team doing some training with their new equipment! But that wasn’t all we got

‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

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All welcome to our free May Radical Social Work webinar Weds May 8th 1-2pm . Autism and Neuro-Diversity - workplace and community Social Work Scotland SASW UNISON Scotland

We had to share this beautiful photograph of a pair of Gannets engaged in 'fencing' with their bills as part of their bonding behaviour! 🥰
Have you been lucky enough to spot this wonderful sight on the cliffs?
📷 Nick Proctor - Nick Proctor Photography

Couldn't be more pleased to see this job advert live for our brand new post of Occupational Therapy Team Manager leading our small but passionate team of OTs in our Adults with Disabilities Service
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Learning Disabilities Team Bradford Council
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Beautiful gift hand delivered today ahead of #JSTLaughingBoy . After the Stobart truck naming debacle… Caught twitter glimpses of this being stitched by Kara Chrome 💉💉💉💉💉😷 ✍️🧵 over the last weeks….

Lovely to see John Harris piece about #JSTLaughingBoy in the Guardian mag.

We recently launched a CPD programme for social workers who have trained overseas & have moved or are planning to move to work in the UK.

The programme is open for enrolment- with access to resources, coaching & self-directed learning.

🔗 Find out more: new.basw.co.uk/training-cpd/p…

Japan’s iSpace HAKUTO-R lander captured this stunning photo in orbit around our Moon while a solar eclipse was occurring on Earth. You can see the Moon’s dark shadow passing above Australia as a dark smudge.

If you look closely at the 8 o’clock position from the Sun, halfway out this amazing image, you can see a comet in its death throes, just before it got vaporized.

Image: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

Details: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

Free Loaves on Fridays- thought to be the largest ever collection of stories from care leavers- has officially launched. 🚀

It is available to order online and in mainstream bookshops, with all proceeds going to Article 39 and The Together Trust.

Huge thanks to the brilliant Steve Broach KC who spoke to approx 200 of our colleagues across Bradford Council & Bradford Children and Families Trust on everything about the interface between Children’s & Adults services & how we deliver great support when we are legally literate & ethical in all our practice.

Just brilliant

Thank you Steve Broach KC