Dyfrig Williams
@DyfrigWilliams
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Cymraeg! He / Him. Music fan. Cyclist. Scarlet. Work for @researchip. Views mine / Barn fi. @[email protected]
Exeter, England
Joined January 2011
How To Solve An Impossible Problem - @whatsthepont "Confronting difficult things ‘head on’ often doesn’t yield the best results. Some things are better approached from a different (oblique) angle" https://t.co/4o0wCFjW43
whatsthepont.blog
Why don’t you sleep on it… and the answer will be there in the morning. It’s one of those annoyingly wholesome bits of advice my Wife frequently gives me. And I accept. Maybe not …
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@DyfrigWilliams @MarkQuinn1968 Really enjoyed being part of your conference today. Thanks for having us! Getting early career professional learning right is SO important: the more we can share our learning across the public sector, the better :-)
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Getting ready with @pollyglegg to present on our experience of #ECF at @researchIP conference on an ECF for social workers. #PartnershipC Looking forward to some great questions.
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Great session with @MarkQuinn1968 @pollyglegg around what social care can learn from the Early Career Framework in schools. Well worth checking out their work evaluating the ECF in the sector https://t.co/SZ6v11P8ei
#PartnershipC
ucl.ac.uk
Academics from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) have evaluated different ways new teachers and their mentors can be supported using the Early Career Framework.
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Such a rich conversation, so helpful to hear the learning taking place across the network. This briefing on addressing systemic racism is now available, which may be useful https://t.co/MxswvBUFHJ
#PartnershipC
Now @LondonLiia, @NimalJude from @FoundationsWW are talking to @SusannahBowyer about supporting the career progression of Black and Global Majority colleagues and what can support progression within local authorities #PartnershipC @researchIP
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Today is our children's partnership conference on supporting early career development, chaired by @SusannahBowyer @DyfrigWilliams We hope that you enjoy the day! @researchIP #PartnershipC
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@DyfrigWilliams is now talking to @Bhamchildtrust @plymouthcc and @TowerHamletsNow as early adopters of the early career framework and the importance of feedback loops and buy in from senior management #PartnershipC
@researchIP
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Hi and Happy New Year! Just wondering of anyone would be free to speak at our conference? Happy to chat or provide further details via email if that would be helpful
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When we're setting goals for a change/improvement project, the standard advice is to think "SMART" (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-based). @artpetty says it's time to move on from SMART goals: we need goals that are 1) learning-orientated (we can only achieve
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Whereas scrolling Twitter’s “For You” tab is now like bobbing for apples in a bowl full of amateur race scientists and Roman-statue avatars lamenting that we no longer build cathedrals, Bluesky… well, Bluesky has its own issues. https://t.co/7PXC5CSq67
theatlantic.com
The common forum that Elon Musk destroyed will never be replaced—and that’s okay.
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This episode of Sliced Bread is really good on the actual evidence base between running shoes and incidence of injury. May relate to some of your experiences @philjohn76
bbc.co.uk
Are barefoot shoes better for your feet?
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This is one of @researchIP's resources that does this. It looks at evidence from across the four nations of the UK that offer alternative approaches to working with families affected by poverty, which is super useful
researchinpractice.org.uk
Professor Kate Morris and Brid Featherstone talk about their powerful body of research and their radical vision for family support and social work.
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Since moving to England I've seen how much different parts of the UK could learn from each other. This @BASW_UK podcast perfectly illustrates this, particularly around learning from the integration of health and social care in Northern Ireland
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Rhagolwg cynhwysfawr ac arbennig o'r Tour De France fel yr arfer! #TDF2023
✍️Dyma ni gyfeillion! Mae'r awr fawr wedi dod. Mae'n bryd cael rhagolwg blynyddol Y Ddwy Olwyn o'r Tour de France, â'r ras lai nag wythnos i ffwrdd. Cawn ddadansoddi'r cwrs a'r ffefrynnau a gofyn, a ydy hi wir yn ras ddau geffyl am y crys melyn? Mwynhewch! https://t.co/ZUJtM2DnMZ
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Went to see this today and it really was brill. Incredible acting, hell of a way to spend my lunchbreak!
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Feet still haven't touched the ground. I'm going to milk it by posting this bit of my speech, which is really very important to me. Diolch bawb. X
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"The city has moved toward fully integrating social work into the activities of its main library branch. People seek support here, because it’s the last truly public space" https://t.co/cS17J7iHV7 < Really interesting piece on the role of libraries in parts of the USA
thewalrus.ca
Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence
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"There are parallells with adult social care. A country that undervalues care becomes an uncaring one" < Really good New Statesman long read on childcare has become unaffordable
newstatesman.com
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.
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