Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate it.
May your days be happy.
May peace be your companion.
May justice prevail.
May war stop.
May oppression cease.
May hard times be over.
May you be safe.
May you be supported.
May you find love near you & within you.
❤️🤗☀️

Is there anyone in the Stevenage area who'd like to come along to a WORLD PREMIERE playreading of a brand new piece of theatre, 'At the Rainbow's End' a verbatim piece based entirely on interviews with older LGBT people who have suffered homophobia and transphobia in 'care'?

One day event to explore abuse of older LGBTQ+ people in domestic and institutional contexts, we welcome your input and contributions! York venue
Unique Care 🍀 @CQC Angela Samata CF Strathclyde Social Work Social Policy KE Middlesex University LGBT+ Network LGBTQ+ Dementia Advisory Group CIC LOASCA Switchboard Scottish Trans

Understanding abuse of older LGBTQ+ people in domestic/institutional contexts International Sexuality & Social Work Group Keira McCormack LGBT Health and Wellbeing Skills for Care
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Research suggests there are significant barriers and gaps for LGBTQIA+ people in the health and care services they access as they get older, leading to an adverse effect on their wellbeing and quality of life.

📰 Members, don't miss this month's OTnews.

This month, we're focusing on three awareness events that are central to our profession: LGBT+ History Month, National Apprenticeship Week and Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

➡️ Find out more: loom.ly/DBokeqE

#BREATHTAKING - is something else…

The grim portrayal of the scandalous treatment of those on the frontline. We must always remember their work in the most difficult and challenging of circumstances. Never forget our #NHS

Crims and Punishment and Society people would do well to read Jan Plamper. His work on sensory history is incredible. But, he was also one of the very few to ask why Foucauldians and Marxists were not situating Soviet penal culture in histories of ‘Western’ penal development. 😞

Thousands of little children, doctors, academics, poets, journalists whose homes are targeted, not hit at random or by accidental bombing. This is not defence- this is deliberate erasure of an entire nation and its future generations, while the world is watching #Gaza_Geniocide

Thanks BMJ for publishing me and Rosemary Cresswell (Wall) 's reflections on 75 years of charitable money in the NHS in this year's 🎄 issue.

We need better debates about (and £ to pay for) the essential aspects of healthcare.

🧵 New paper (with Ellie Brooks) which started by asking why the 2015-18 revision of the EU AVMSD missed an opportunity to strengthen rules on HFSS/alcohol advertising, & found an interesting puzzle... doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

Bit of a love letter to the value of qualitative research for understanding & getting action on health inequalities - new Cost of Living Blog - health/sociology/politics blog by Ellen Stewart & me cost-ofliving.net/understanding-…

The Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group (SPRAG) have today held their final full group meeting of 2023. Over the next few weeks members are voting to shape priorities and actions for 2024.

As they do, I’m reflecting on all that has happened for the group this past year…

***exciting news alert*** Continuing on from hosting a series of successful international conferences this year we are so PROUD to announce that we will be hosting the Social Policy Assoc conference in 2024!! Please come and join us in Glasgow for what will be a wonderful event

Excited to be sharing some of the early findings from this Nuffield Foundation funded S.25 project with Dr Brandi Lee Lough Dennell and Micky Anderson. Still time to be involved if you have experience of 'Voluntary' care arrangements! 👉celcis.org/vca

Congratulations to Ruby Whitelaw on the publication of this journal article on the impact of group size on children and young people's experience of residential care. Important findings to bear in mind as we consider how to develop trauma-informed, rights-respecting provision 👏

📢Call for abstracts: SPA Conference 2024! 📢

The organisers of the 2024 Social Policy Association Annual Conference (3rd – 5th July, University of Strathclyde) invite presentations and symposia which engage with the idea of social policy futures.

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We are very proud to announce the publication of our new research briefing series! In the first issue Sally Paul and Laura Del Carpio discuss coverage of loss and grief in the school curriculum. Take a look here 👇
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Latest Support Image.Please share. Please put it in your Facebook banner header.Share to your groups/clients. Raising Awareness and Support.Thank You. NHS Employers EMPOWER project VOX Scotland Ross McCulloch National Child Traumatic Stress Network Chief Superintendent Faroque Hussain KPM Police Scotland Strathclyde Social Work Social Policy KE Anti-Bullying Alliance #AntiBullyingWeek