Gerry Guckian

Our Probation Officers must be social work qualified & registered with NI Social Care Council. Their passion & dedication to the role is not only underlined with Probation’s values but that of social work too. Read about the work of a Probation Officer at pbni.org.uk/life-probation…

FC Bayern will never forget. #FlowersOfManchester

Help these people!!! @Keir_Starmer @SteveReedMP @mtpennycook @mhclg @ISHA_London

My son was a person worthy of respect and decency. His life was valuable to us and to the world, and we will fight for justice for him. @ISHA_London @mtpennycook @Keir_Starmer #JoshForever23 #Holborn #London #NotOneMoreFall

The best cover of all time for this song! ✨💫🎶 Do you agree?

What a tremendous contribution Grace and @joanne_sansome have made to Social Care and to society. Thank you so much for your positive participation in our partnership - you have helped shape what we do and made us better as an organisation. I wish you well in everything you do!

Here is why we need People’s Parliaments @niassembly @niexecutive @AssemblyCC #DisabledPeoplesParliament2025 #UNCRPD #Article29TheRightToParticipateInPoliticalAndPublicLife #DeliberativeDemocracy #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs 💜✊

"It was just great to come together as a collective voice" 📣 - participants in the Disabled People's Parliament explain how it helps them have their say on important issues.

Why we need the independent social care sector - listen back to Stephanie McAleese from Connected Health on @BBCgmu who describes her working day to Sarah. She says the system wld collapse without her and others. And asks why they aren’t receiving a pay uplift?. It’s powerful.

King's Award for Voluntary Service success in N Ireland @KingsAwardVS @BLieutenancy @ALieutenancy @LLCoLondonderry @lord_Lieut_cbld @VolunteerNow1

One of the obstacles that our Carers Support Service face when trying to support carers is that people do not realise they are a carer, missing out on supports and information available To find out more: Carers.Support1@westerntrust.hscni.net 02866344217 westerntrust.hscni.net/service/carers…

A wonderful example of true partnership working for the long term benefit of social care practitioners and ultimately those they care for.

🏆 And the winner of the Social Services Delivery Innovation Award is... @NI_SCC! The CiP Framework is a transformative initiative designed to support the professional and career development of over 41,000 social care staff working across the life course.

Massive congratulations to everyone in Northern Ireland Social Care Council on receiving this prestigious award at the European Social Network Awards! Tremendous acknowledgement of so much hard work done by so many in creating the Care In Practice framework! #SocialCareMatters

Getting ready for the @ESNsocial 2025 awards and the #CareinPractice Framework nominated for an award. Colleagues from @setrust and @SouthernHSCT nominated also. #SocialWork and #SocialCare in #NorthernIreland is well represented. @NI_SCC @healthdpt

@markataylor16 @ALieutenancy @SJA_NI @HillsCastle Well done Mark - and very well deserved!

Poignant, layered and … simply beautiful. Best episode of not just the best police drama, possibly the best drama ever by the BBC. Grace’s interview scene was enough to bring tears to a stone - and then Annie’s slow funeral march at the end… Writing of the very highest order.

The best girl there ever was 🎾❤️ A promise made is a promise kept...

The Fox of Greenwich Village walked down to the coffee shop. He hadn't slept. The worst had happened. The owner usually sung opera as he worked. Today, he wasn't even there, just one of his children, who looked tired. The Fox sat at his favourite seat and thought about what had happened, but he couldn't frame the pieces in his mind, they mismatched and refused to cohere. The door opened and shut, orders were made, first cigarettes lit. He thought about the smallness of his life, his music, his writing, his apartment, and wondered what anyone could do. He sighed and put his head in his paws. "No, no, no. Don't despair, don't give up," said a voice suddenly behind him, an old badger who'd been sitting at the counter, a professor he'd seen around from time to time, at poetry readings and parties. "We become the light, now, Fox, we become the light, the fire, the unquenchable flame, the kindling hope. There is no-one else. Remember that, we are all that will hold the line, there is no-one else." And with that, the badger paid his bill, picked up his stick and was gone, into the heavy autumn light, into the push and bustle of the street, without even waiting for a reply.