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Can I ask please
@BBCNews
why shortly after this article was published, as it was becoming the most read article on the BBC news website last night, was the reference to this teacher joining the school through Teach First removed (the only edit made)?
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Four sweetest words in the English language: "passed with minor corrections" ☺️🎉
Massive thanks to the whole
@EducationBrunel
team (and in particular my doctoral supervisors
@annechappell7
& Ellen McHugh) - and everyone else who help me along the way. Now for a drink...
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Social workers: We are quitting in record numbers because we are unsupported, overworked, over surveilled, understaffed and under resourced.
Government: Here's a new National Framework adding 237 new "expectations" of you.
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Social workers have some of the worst working conditions, decreasing wellbeing, and have seen lowest wage growth of any sector in the past 10yrs. Yet 89% of SWs remain proud of the job they do. Gotta think that pride is doing some serious heavy lifting in keeping services afloat.
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Check out my new article "The Teach First Effect" in
@YorksBylines
.
"There is no real evaluation, understanding or even recognition of the impact that this growing network is having on our public professions, services and policy"
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"Every social worker is almost certain to be also an agitator"
- Clement Atlee, 1920
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I'm disappointed to see the only concrete proposal from Social Work England to address the retention, recruitment and workforce issues facing SWs is yet more research. We have enough research, health checks, longitudinal studies etc. already.
Action pls?
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PM: Social workers "ignored" victims due to "cultural sensitivity and political correctness"
Another MP: "Covid showed very clearly that social workers stayed at home and teachers had to go out and knock on doors"
Insulting doesnt cover it. Waiting on Chief SW to call this out?
PM criticised for 'offensive' comments about social workers - Professional Social Work magazine
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My network ethnography of
#socialwork
in England is included in the
#carereview
special edition of
@SW2020Covid19
that came out today, alongside some other really interesting articles. Thanks to the amazing collective!
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The chief social worker reminding us where her loyalties and priorities lie. This is the only tweet she has retweeted about the case...
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Accounting firms like PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY "at the heart of corruption in the UK". Sadly they are also at the heart of children's services and education in the UK. This all needs to change.
Essential read from
@premnsikka
and
@LeftFootFwd
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The most prominent and consistent theme I can identify in reading the
#MacAlisterReview
is arrogance. An extremely underqualified, inexperienced chair professing to have "gone further" than other reviews (which he refers to as "the stack") is something that should worry all of us
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So should end the storied political career of the first ever Teach First ambassador to become MP, an anti-woke, Brexit campaigning, common sense group signatory, lockdown skeptic.
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In announcing the National Review into death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes tonight, SoS Nadhim Zahawi stated repeatedly “Sunlight is the best possible disinfectant”. Completely agree, and so it is important to shine a light at who is leading this new review. A thread 1/8
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"Every social worker is almost certain to be also an agitator" (Clement Atlee, 1920)
"The field of social work is protest" (Skokane and Masgoa, 2019)
"[Within] dissatisfaction the seeds of resistance are sown" (Rogowski, 2020)
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To the surprise of no one, the government announced (through a pre-procurement notice) today that it will be extending the contract of social work fast-track Frontline, and likely it will be expanding (as each new contract has). There's a lot to unpick, so strap in. A thread 1/16
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Helping make sense of this chess obsession: Half the funding goes directly to English Chess Federation (ECF), whose president is right-wing journalist & son of former conservative minister, Dominic Lawson. ECF also sponsored by Sunak's Winchester College.
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Proud to be quoted in this article alongside many others raising concerns about the networked influences in the
#MacAlisterReview
. Good article by
@BylineTimes
@KatharineQ
(as always), but disappointing we are where we are.
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New Article just out applying Manuel Castells' theory of the Network Society to the opaque networks of power in children and family
#socialwork
in England, as well as the networks of counterpower that challenge them
DM me for a copy if you cant access 🙂
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Not a single mention of "social work" in Labour's plans for reform of health and social care systems, including no apparent role for social workers in the move to a National Care Service.
🙄
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New article just out in this really great issue on dissent from
@AotearoaJ
. All open access!!
"Social Work England: A regulator worthy of our collective dissent"- I discuss a range of issues with our new regulator & the early dissent from social workers.
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It begins... Minister for Children & Families Will Quince already using the
#MacAlisterReview
in parliament today to deflect from Qs about the habitual underfunding of children's services, widespread child poverty, and the poor working conditions in the sector. Get used to this.
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As we learn more & more what a nasty piece of work Gavin Williamson is, it's important to remember he also launched the
#MacAlisterReview
, appointed probably the most controversial person he could to chair, & ignored widespread concerns about early processes, before being sacked.
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I am a doctoral student at
@EducationBrunel
undertaking research on “Podcasts as Social Work CPD”. If you are a social worker in England then I am keen to hear your views on social work podcasts and CPD. For more info please email me at joseph.hanley
@brunel
.ac.uk
Please share🙂
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Pertinent considering the current political climate: My latest video on networks (11mins), this time looking at Frontline and Corporate Connections.
Why is a social work organisation so enmeshed in the financial and business world?
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"We are therefore disappointed but sadly not surprised that, once again, there is a lack of recognition of the demanding, highly-skilled, and often emotionally challenging work that social workers undertake" -
@BASW_UK
on
#carereview
@CareReviewWatch
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While we are often told (without evidence) that there's a a negative public perception of social workers, I think we should be far more concerned with the negative perception held by many in policy making circles, often the same people telling us how negative the public are!
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Many social work students also have to work part-time and/or have caring responsibilities but because of full-time, unpaid placements have to do this at night and weekends. 3 day weeks not an option.
Social work student finance needs urgent review.
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No uni social work programme would have been able to weather this level of failure & scandal over the past few years, but Frontline continues to be funded & favoured. Thankfully the person who led during this time is no longer in post... he is now just leading the
#carereview
😬😬
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So sad today to hear of so many colleagues in teaching education f***ed over by the ITT market review. The networks, ideology and opportunism involved has been well documented. But it is sadness I feel most profoundly. Other professions take note: it can happen here and will!!
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"The government should stop 'doing to' the social work profession in England, and start working with, and listening to, it"
Excellent article from
@robin_23_99
in this month's
@BASW_UK
PSW magazine:
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Received today🤨
So that's about 100k social workers completing 220k CPD records nationally. 97.5% of those records are never viewed & those few that are this is the extent of feedback. For a profession with an ongoing workload & vacancy crisis, this should be unacceptable.
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DfE doesn't like independent research/voices it hears.
DfE creates What Works.
DfE makes What Works "independent".
DfE hears what it wants from What Works.
DfE heavily funds What Works to play this role.
DfE claims independent research/voices being heard.
Did I miss a step?
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Confirmation today the Early Career Framework (ECF) is coming to social work, replacing the ASYE with a 5 year programme. Government promises it will "improve retention" and ensure "strong start" for SWs.
Funny, it has had the exact opposite impact in education. A 🧵 1/8
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After 20 years of Teach First, the teaching profession in England is still facing a recruitment and retention crisis. Why then is Teach First still so often uncritically treated as a solution to teacher vacancy rates?
Really dissapointing to see
@rtenews
running puff pieces on Teach First today as "news". No discussion of Teach Firsts failures, high costs, harm to profession(s), problematic sponsors etc - worried its suggestive of new plans afoot to expand to Ireland...
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Whether you agree or not that we should be targeting more men to become social workers, we should all be able to agree they should not be funnelled towards fast-track qualifying routes that provide disproportionate funding, & are specifically focused on leadership/networking. 1/4
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Priorities for Social Work England: Introducing a new framework for social work students to add to an already crowded landscape.
Non-priorities: student financial disparities, social work students using food banks, frozen bursary levels, rising student debt, lost placements...
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"Bursary level for masters & undergraduate students on university courses is appallingly low particularly when you compare that with the fact that on fast-track courses they dont even pay any fees. That makes the cruelty as well as the inequality of the funding... indefensible"👏
Emeritus Professor
@Junethobu
shares her reflections on the social work profession, cultural competence, burnout, learning from foster carers, and advice for social work students & NQSWs in an interview with the Social Workers Union (SWU):
#SocialWork
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Interesting timeline:
2019: Frontline awarded £45m new DfE contract.
2021: Frontline founder/CEO MacAlister appointed by DfE to chair "independent" care review.
2022: New tailor made DfE tender of £80m for Frontline still run by MacAlisters close friends/associates.
Independent?
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Good to see
@BASW_UK
highlighting social work podcasts in this months PSW:
@TheAandFPodcast
@EffectivePrac
@RichardDevineSW
@mgoat73
et al.
I'm on the last stages of my doctorate looking at SW podcasts and CPD, some interesting findings on the horizon (hope people will agree!)
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Frontline has failed. Their new contract proves it.
New article with
@robin_23_99
in the July
@SWU_UK
newsletter, highlighting the implications of the new Frontline social work qualifying contract, and what it says about Frontline's unfortunate legacy in social work in England.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems quite odd for a Department for Education contract with an "independent" advisor, who recently completed an "independent" review, to be referred to by his first name in the contract: "we expect Josh to..." 🤔
#MacAlisterReview
Details of Josh MacAlister's new advisory role with the Department for Education released, focused on implementing his review. Duties include to "assist in maintaining the positive relationships built during the review" 🤨
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As expected the
#MacAlisterReview
has recommended expanding DfE powers to intervene & force children’s services into trusts, cherry-picking only two “good examples” of trusts to make this case, while ignoring all others. This abuse of evidence has always been MacAlister's M.O.
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Out of Harms Way was launched today to much praise. I don't wish to discuss the details of the report, as has been done elsewhere. What I do want to highlight though is that this is once again very much a report of the dominant policy network. A thread 1/6
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Spending most of today marking
#socialwork
student assignments. The level of legal knowledge, reflection and critical analysis from students often coming from non-traditional educational backgrounds brings me a lot of hope for the future our profession.
#SocialWorkAtItsBest
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Josh MacAlister has made a (publicly funded) career out of criticising social workers, from Frontline, to his Blueprint, to the
#carereview
. The validity of his arguments aside, there was a way he could have made these points that didnt stigmatise social workers☹️
@CareReviewWatch
Josh MacAlister has publicly criticised child protection social workers for being overreaching and intrusive, institutionally biased against families.
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After 20 years of Teach First, the teaching profession in England is still facing a recruitment and retention crisis. Why then is Teach First still so often uncritically treated as a solution to teacher vacancy rates?
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Excellent/worrying research from
@pmcfadden5
@JillManthorpe
et al.
70% of social workers in England feel staffing levels unsafe, 2/3 planning to leave the profession, and those who feel staffing levels unsafe twice as likely to express desire to leave.
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New article just out exploring the splitting of social work qualifying into fast-tracks and apprenticeships. A challenge to the "many routes are good" argument.
"ultimately it is the segregation itself is doing the most damage to the profession"
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The more I read about the Early Career Framework (ECF) coming to social work, the more worrying it is. The ECF has been a DISASTER for early career teachers/mentors. The idea of imposing that on NQSWs is unconscionable & should be collectively resisted by the whole profession 1/3
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Social workers are leaving recording CPD later & later every year. Its clear (regardless of intentions) this is nothing but a performative process for the majority of social workers.
Resultantly: how many records will be written by AI Chatbots this year?
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I am noticing more & more abuse/derision aimed at female academics/professionals who raise concerns about dominant networks, on here & elsewhere, something I dont experience to any significant degree, despite always squawking on. I think I need to be better at calling this out.
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Want to know more about why so many of us are concerned about the negative impact of Frontline in social work?
This 15 point blog does a nice job summing up the key issues concisely, including links for more information.
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Its very sad that for the next few years children social care & resources will be focused on a move a national agency model & this will be used by the government to deflect from every concern/issue raised for the foreseeable future.
Child poverty rising? National agency! etc.
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Whenever DfE is asked about the crisis of social work retention/recruitment, they point to funding of fast-tracks as their response (note fast-tracks have not helped in these areas).
This is another major issue with these programmes, as they allow the DfE to deflect in this way.
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This utter outdated tripe being fed into parliament from Gove on social work yesterday - literally zero reflection of the damage his reforms & partners (Frontline, Narey etc.) have had on the sector over the past 10 years.
Trigger warning for all in the sector before reading!
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Social Work England recruiting Head of Policy to "Lead the development & review of policies & positions that support the regulation of the social work profession"
Required: "Ability to understand business needs"
Not required: Knowledge/experience of SW 😕
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Social work students skipping meals, using food banks, using warm banks, no time/money for hobbies, working long hours alongside full-time placements.
"This is not only bad for students but worrying for the profession at a time of staff shortages"
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I have been off twitter for a couple of weeks (for ☺️reasons). But in the meantime private firms partnered with orgs in children's social care and education have continued to demonstrate almost daily why they should not be anywhere near our services/professions.
An update 🧵:
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Arrived today ☺️
Looking forward to getting stuck in. w/
@vasilios_
@AaronCWyllie
@CarolineJBald
@mlavalette
@richmoth
et al.
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Yet more evidence of the poor retention & conditions of social work today. & all the government can point to is increasing the 1 year ASYE to a 5 year Early Career Framework & a vague promise to fund 500 more apprenticeships, a drop in the ocean. Shameful
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So thats approx. 1/3 of Frontline graduates out of practice after 2 years, and another 1/3 already in management/senior roles after 2 years (both conservative estimates). Remind me again how Frontline is going to solve the retention crisis?
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My short article on the launch of Frontline's new Headline programme aimed at heads of services. Why we should be worried about this colonisation of social work, and who is behind it.
In this week's
@SWU_UK
newsletter:
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It was an amazing journey with great people to put together this network map. I hope that people will go in and explore. Some examples to demonstrate - lets start with the most connected org in the map: Teach First (more connections than the DfE!!). 1/8
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New article with
@McgrathBrookes
@HigginsMartyn
applying the work of Mark Fisher to Social Work Reform:
"it is the pantomime of reform within these narrow neoliberal circles which ultimately prevents any real, meaningful reform or change occurring"
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Based on what we know about Josh MacAlister, I think we can safely say there are a number of areas/orgs/people that will avoid any scrutiny under his
#carereview
.
Here's a few we can pretty much guarantee will escape any challenge (add your own!):
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Whether you agree we need more men in social work or not, we should all be able to agree they should not be funnelled towards fast-track qualifying routes that provide disproportionate funding & are specifically focused on leadership/networking 1/3
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An initial draft of the Knowledge and Skills Statement (KSS), drafted by Chief Social Worker Isabelle Trowler, included a requirement for SWs to demonstrate "positive attitudes" towards politicians.
Imagine if Trowler had been successful including that, given current events...
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My original network ethnography of Children's Social Care in England (2021) - I hadn't looked at it in some time. I can't really believe I managed to do it all without arrows overlapping with names. Full article here:
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Great piece in
@SWU_UK
newsletter from Carol Reid on privatisation in SW:
"When we see privately run organisations like Frontline replacing our public services and receiving lottery-figure sums for the privilege, we should not dismiss it or roll our eyes. We should be angry"
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"How can social work students be expected to support others, when they themselves are desperately struggling to survive the cost-of-living crisis?"
Really important campaign from
@BASW_UK
@SWU_UK
@RebekahPierre92
calling for a fairer funding approach.
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Not all charities are created equal.
Some are heavily influenced by corrupt political networks.
Some are supported, and even founded by, corrupt private organisations.
Some are widely acknowledged to have done substantial damage to the sectors in which they operate.
Some...
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Exciting to be presenting some very very (very) early findings of my Doctoral Study on Social Work Podcasts today as part of
#edbrunelconf2021
#socialwork
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MacAlister, chair of
#carereview
, has made regular pronouncements that social workers are incompetent. The influence of this seen in past few days, particularly by those in his network. And why wouldnt he, his entire career has been made from criticising SWs, & its been lucrative
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Much as it started (private invitation only launch) the
#MacAlisterReview
continues to rely on friendly networks and favours as it releases its report and launch date early to some and keeps others guessing. Influence of networks & inclusion/exclusion will be all over the report
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"We need to turn our fire on the real target" - Labour MP hopeful Josh MacAlister referring to the Tory politicians he has collaborated closely with for over a decade, whose policies he has facilitated & who have afforded him no end of funding/influence.
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Not entirely sure why, but just noticed that our recent article examining the controversial Josh MacAlister (BCG) led Blueprint is now open access🤷♂️
Get it while this glitch in the matrix remains (or just DM me for a copy if it doesn't).
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"Beware false promises from the Tories... and judge them on what they’ve done over the last 14 years, which is nothing" - Labour candidate Josh MacAlister describing the Tory government he collaborated closely with on children & family policy for a decade+
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And there we have it. After a decade+ of being a central cog in harmful Tory policies in children's services, and a selection process mired in controversy and protest, Josh Macalister is Labour candidate for Copeland, an almost certain Labour seat according to polls.
🔴 COPELAND: Josh MacAlister 186; Markus Campbell-Savours 126.
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For anyone frustrated by how much people are picking apart the proposals in the
#MacAlisterReview
, I submit the real thing you are frustrated about is how easy those proposals have been to pick apart.
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Not looking forward in the next 12 months to explaining to social work students that on top of demonstrating:
72 PCF Descriptors
50 SWE Professional Standards
10/11 PQS KSS
109 KSBs (apprentices)
They can anticipate adding:
237 National Framework Expectations
78 SWE KSBs
🙄🙄
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There are several important motions up for discussion at the
@basw_uk
AGM next week, but this one on the future of the Chief Social Worker role I feel is particularly noteworthy.
"it appears that the role has been used to advocate for government policy"
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It's pretty shocking that the government keeps funding and expanding the remit of schemes like Teach first and Frontline when the problems they were designed to address have not only persisted, but worsened substantially, since they were founded.
"The 2012 Frontline proposal report outlined five “problems” that Frontline was designed to address. It has failed to address any of these five problems since it was founded, despite huge government funding and rapid expansion"
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What do teaching & social work have in common? A decade+ of fast-tracks (Frontline, Teach First) & their DfE sponsored subsidiaries/networks causing major damage, while also letting politicians to use them to claim theyre making positive investments/reform
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Some quotes from sw students in my research discussing the impact of fast-track training on them and their futures. Thanks to all those who participated. Remember these students r also more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Seems... wrong? 🤷
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I also submit that you need to recognise that much of the work highlighting the various weaknesses in the report has been done in people’s own time, in contrast to the 1.5 years and huge government resourcing the review team had. It shouldn't be this way.
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In a previous thread I predicted 6 key players that would avoid scrutiny in the
#MacAlisterReview
. Not only have they all avoided any scrutiny, but the review relied heavily on them for evidence & has shaped key proposals around them. A sequel thread 1/10
Based on what we know about Josh MacAlister, I think we can safely say there are a number of areas/orgs/people that will avoid any scrutiny under his
#carereview
.
Here's a few we can pretty much guarantee will escape any challenge (add your own!):
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Details of Josh MacAlister's new advisory role with the Department for Education released, focused on implementing his review. Duties include to "assist in maintaining the positive relationships built during the review" 🤨
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Just one of the dozens of reasons Josh MacAlister is not an "Independent" chair & is unsuited to be heading the children's social care review. He was founder and CEO of Frontline until 2021, Frontline's umbrella network Transform Society currently collaborating with Caretech 1/7
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My doctoral 👨🎓 thesis "Look who’s talking: Social work podcasts as continuing professional development in England" is now available to download from the
@Bruneluni
library 🔖. Access here:
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A new study from Teach First finds need for more "high quality" teachers 🤨
Wasn't that ostensibly the issue they were set up to address over 20 years ago?
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My article on recent developments with the Social Work Degree Apprenticeship published in
@BASW_UK
Professional Social Work magazine.
Strong interest, challenge to fast-tracks, but also surveillance, wasted resources, British Values and segregation of students. Pain & Gain!
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DfE advertising for new Chair of Social Work England (£450 a day)- predictably no requirement for them to have any knowledge/experience of social work, but they are required to "make a strong contribution" and "respond proactively" to government policy.🙄
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Despite what some have suggested, the
#carereview
Case for Change is incredibly uncritical and forgiving of the government, including providing them with a lot excuses to justify their decimation of children's services over the past decade, and not introduce more funding now.
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Oh wow, my talk tomorrow "The rise of the Teach First empire and the fall of England’s professions" at
@OfficialUoM
for
@tepl_uom
is completely SOLD OUT!
Looking forward to it even more now, and the discussions that follow.
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Good response from
@BASW_UK
in relation to the
#MacAlisterReview
. Many important points including in relation to IRO proposal, Frontlines role in downgrading the profession, failure to understand SW role & the lack of evidence behind many recommendations.
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Cool to see
@SWU_UK
are going to be running this essay competition for social work students again - focus on Social Action also very nice to see!
Entries open 21st March - four £500 prizes.
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Social work student bursaries and education support grants now frozen for 9 YEARS!
Meanwhile fast-track programmes like Frontline and Think Ahead continue to be disproportionately funded for cohorts that are disproportionately white, male, middle class.
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The stories from individual social workers in the comments under this article are worth a read, in particular by those making decisions in/for Social Work England. The impact that this has had is an absolute scandal and the regulator should be ashamed.
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Frontline yet again being granted lightening quick access to the new minister, part of a trend. Amongst many concerns, it is worrying how this quickly inducts them into a particular view of SW, significant for ministers with no experience/understanding in this area.
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