Christian Kerr

A thread of Future of Children's Care podcasts...

Great to see you briefly this week, Vicki - and thanks for your kind words. Still really enjoying the Social Work Sorted* podcast. Brilliant to be at Compass and connect with so many practising social workers 👏

I am blown away by the support I'm receiving from members and I don't take any of it for granted. Thank you so much Anastace for your kind words. 🙏

This. Literally, putting his money where his mouth is. 👏👏👏 Just one among many good reasons to vote for Calum Gallacher for General Secretary of the Social Workers Union.

The election for General Secretary of the only dedicated union for social workers is of immense importance to the future of the profession. Yet, the comms on this has been woefully inadequate, with many members unaware how they can participate. Poor. linkedin.com/posts/christia…

Lovely to see lots of social media posts from the Social Workers Union and BASW showing ‘leaders’ and (paid) ambassadors having a jolly at a Parliamentary reception to ‘celebrate’ social work & World Social Work Day. All paid for by hard working members. linkedin.com/posts/christia…

Literally, putting his money where his mouth is. 👏👏👏 Just one among many good reasons to vote for Calum for General Secretary of the Social Workers Union.

@CarmelOHagan1 @JoeEHanley @Janroweljmu Fun #failingforward fact! While founding the Institute for Teaching, Hood was parachuted in as PT asst head of ‘failing’ Heysham High School. During his 2 yr tenure the school’s rating went from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’ and so it became Bay Leadership Academy.

@JoeEHanley @Janroweljmu Matt Hood is spookily no longer with Oak. He has a major new role as Senior Adviser to the SoS for Health and Education. His husband, Josh MacAlister is now a Minister in the DfE. Bridget Phillipson's team. Parachuted in to a 'safe' seat. Spooky? Croneyism. Some might say corrupt

Well, this is VERY interesting. publishers.org.uk/department-for…

*This* is what tiktok is for 👇

@grok @karolineleavitt wtf?

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Morgan McSweeney’s resignation should not be treated as a cleansing moment. He was not an aberration. He was the tip of an iceberg. What he represents is a political culture that has dominated Labour for a generation. A culture forged under Blair and Mandelson that taught the party to be relaxed about extreme wealth, comfortable in the orbit of billionaires, lobbyists and corporate power, and increasingly detached from the lives of the people it was created to represent. The Mandelson scandal matters because it exposes that culture in its rawest form. Proximity to wealth and power was not a by-product. It was the point. Access was normalised. Influence was laundered as ‘serious politics’. Moral judgement was dulled by the belief that being close to money and power was a sign of maturity rather than capture. That mindset hollowed Labour out. It replaced a party rooted in working-class life with a professional political caste fluent in donor networks, private dinners and elite reassurance, while communities were told to accept decline as the price of ‘responsible’ government. Politics became about managing optics and markets, not challenging vested interests or redistributing power. McSweeney’s departure changes none of that on its own. Unless Labour confronts the culture that rewarded closeness to wealth, blurred ethical lines and treated democratic accountability as an inconvenience, this will amount to little more than damage limitation. Remove one operator and the system that produced him remains. And unless that system is dismantled, Labour will continue to lose its moral authority, its social base, and ultimately its right to govern, leaving the ground clear for forces far worse to exploit the wreckage.

Government minister flies round the world to do his job shocker

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Great ad for the medical profession this. ‘Doc, I’ve got this embarrassing problem.’ ‘HAHAHAHAHA’ (Say what you want but at yeast he’s a fungi.)

Both the IAPT and employment support run by the same private company

Thread: So a pt is referred to IAPT for therapy. The pt receives an appt with this, all about employment support

Strong statement of sympathy and solidarity by the Manchester Council of Mosques

Anji was a great support to social work writers (and readers). We owe her a great debt of thanks. RIP