Emily Keddell
@emilyked.bsky.social
Academic, mother. Not in that order. Some other things as well.
‘When in doubt, call us’ results in many unnecessary reports, even in non-mandated environments. Though it can be an opportunity for advice, rather than making a report.
Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...
Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...
Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children
In response to a relentless rise in calls to New York state’s child abuse hotline, alongside stark racial disparities, social workers, doctors, teachers and others are mobilizing to change the law.
www.thecity.nyc
May 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
‘When in doubt, call us’ results in many unnecessary reports, even in non-mandated environments. Though it can be an opportunity for advice, rather than making a report.
Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...
Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...
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🎬 New Film Alert!
Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with
@SpeakupSA explains:
🔹 How social workers should communicate
🔹 Key processes & terms
🔹 Support you can seek
📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83
Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with
@SpeakupSA explains:
🔹 How social workers should communicate
🔹 Key processes & terms
🔹 Support you can seek
📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83
April 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎬 New Film Alert!
Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with
@SpeakupSA explains:
🔹 How social workers should communicate
🔹 Key processes & terms
🔹 Support you can seek
📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83
Parents with learning difficulties often face barriers navigating children’s services. Our new film with
@SpeakupSA explains:
🔹 How social workers should communicate
🔹 Key processes & terms
🔹 Support you can seek
📽️ Watch here: ow.ly/iZf950VtS83
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Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
“This is our home, our land and we have the right to be here and to live a life of peace in our homeland. So we stay! ..let me also say that we watch on the internet the protest and the demonstrations – and it makes us feel we are not alone”
My interview with a Palestinian from Tulkarem in the West Bank - looking at the horrors being inflicted in the city by occupation forces www.counterfire.org/article/they...
‘They are destroying everything’: Israeli invasion of Tulkarem refugee camp
Michael Lavalette interviews Mohammed Amara, a resident of Tulkarem refugee camp, who describes the violence inflicted by the Israeli state and settlers
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
www.counterfire.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“This is our home, our land and we have the right to be here and to live a life of peace in our homeland. So we stay! ..let me also say that we watch on the internet the protest and the demonstrations – and it makes us feel we are not alone”
Attitudes towards responsibility for child wellbeing is an interesting factor, picked up in this study: the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and assessment of risk of future maltreatment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and their assessment of risk of future child maltreatment: a case study
Child welfare workers are required to assess, address, and make decisions about a multitude of complex issues related to child maltreatment, including child safety and wellbeing. This study aimed t...
www.tandfonline.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Attitudes towards responsibility for child wellbeing is an interesting factor, picked up in this study: the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and assessment of risk of future maltreatment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Justin Tipa catefully and cogently laying out the boundaries, nature and aims of rangatiratanga from a Ngāi Tahu perspective. understandably smarting at the inference but many excellent points. ‘We are not the radicals’ ngaitahu.iwi.nz/connect-2/co...
Ngāi Tahu Kaiwhakahaere Justin Tipa Hui Whakaū I Te Tiriti ki Ōnuku Waitangi Day 2025 Commemoration Speech
ngaitahu.iwi.nz
February 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Justin Tipa catefully and cogently laying out the boundaries, nature and aims of rangatiratanga from a Ngāi Tahu perspective. understandably smarting at the inference but many excellent points. ‘We are not the radicals’ ngaitahu.iwi.nz/connect-2/co...
The ‘granola nazis’ use the imagery and language of wellness to promote white supremacy aje.io/mfllhe
How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness movement
An emerging parallel economy peddles purity, health and fitness to promote wellbeing – and a political worldview.
aje.io
February 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The ‘granola nazis’ use the imagery and language of wellness to promote white supremacy aje.io/mfllhe
New Year’s resolution: only reviewing for the journals I’m either on the Ed board of, or actively editing. Mostly succeeding but my curious nature is wearing me slowly down.
February 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New Year’s resolution: only reviewing for the journals I’m either on the Ed board of, or actively editing. Mostly succeeding but my curious nature is wearing me slowly down.
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New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties oppose the widespread use of facial recognition technology, especially in public & quasi-public spaces like supermarkets.
Sleepwalking into a surveillance state with back door police access to private cameras.
#FRT #Privacy
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Sleepwalking into a surveillance state with back door police access to private cameras.
#FRT #Privacy
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
NZ needs to keep tabs on proliferation of private surveillance systems, watchdog says
The civil liberties watchdog is warning that NZ is sleepwalking its way to becoming a surveillance society as CCTV systems become more and more common in the country’s businesses.
www.thepost.co.nz
January 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties oppose the widespread use of facial recognition technology, especially in public & quasi-public spaces like supermarkets.
Sleepwalking into a surveillance state with back door police access to private cameras.
#FRT #Privacy
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Sleepwalking into a surveillance state with back door police access to private cameras.
#FRT #Privacy
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Palestinian teen on returning to his flattened home: “Our message to them, is we will live with dignity after our suffering” aje.io/s3c9de?updat...
Second Gaza ceasefire exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinians due
Hamas is scheduled to release four female Israeli soldiers in Gaza and Israel is expected to then free 200 Palestinians.
aje.io
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Palestinian teen on returning to his flattened home: “Our message to them, is we will live with dignity after our suffering” aje.io/s3c9de?updat...
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I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
January 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
Is all IPV the same, and how do differences impact families and children of n the cp system? Check out this article at CHA
doi.org/10.61605/cha...
doi.org/10.61605/cha...
Coercive control and situational couple violence in families with child protection involvement: A case-file analysis
Published article 3008 Children Australia
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Is all IPV the same, and how do differences impact families and children of n the cp system? Check out this article at CHA
doi.org/10.61605/cha...
doi.org/10.61605/cha...
In a week where yet again we hear teachers ‘need more training to recognise and report’, this great article appears, aiming for a more critical engagement. Full article: Nuance as Praxis for Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nuance as Praxis for Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities
As social work instructors, we have observed students increasingly wanting to engage in critical conversations about mandated reporting. Few resources are available to support instructors in facili...
www.tandfonline.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
In a week where yet again we hear teachers ‘need more training to recognise and report’, this great article appears, aiming for a more critical engagement. Full article: Nuance as Praxis for Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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And a excellent example of how rigorous and useful unfunded research can be
Why do academics do unfunded research? Resistance, compliance and identity in the UK neo-liberal university
This article explores the understandings of academics who carry out unfunded research and the nature of their academic identity, in a context where research funding is realigned to government and c...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:58 AM
And a excellent example of how rigorous and useful unfunded research can be
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Our systematic review of parents' experiences of child protection during & after pregnancy is freely available doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... Big thanks to contributors, original researchers, & participating parents! @emilyked.bsky.social @lisamorriss.bsky.social @karenb-2.bsky.social #academicsky
December 13, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Our systematic review of parents' experiences of child protection during & after pregnancy is freely available doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... Big thanks to contributors, original researchers, & participating parents! @emilyked.bsky.social @lisamorriss.bsky.social @karenb-2.bsky.social #academicsky
“What has happened in Gaza has shown us that there is no international law”. Staff for Palestine at Uni of Otago tried for a 2nd time yesterday to get the uni council to divest from the Israeli military. We were declined. Universities and all civil society institutions must act aje.io/rmvd1n
Experts: International law has failed Gaza
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed tens of thousands. Al Jazeera asks why international law has been disregarded.
aje.io
December 10, 2024 at 5:57 PM
“What has happened in Gaza has shown us that there is no international law”. Staff for Palestine at Uni of Otago tried for a 2nd time yesterday to get the uni council to divest from the Israeli military. We were declined. Universities and all civil society institutions must act aje.io/rmvd1n
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Some good news. If the moral argument doesn't work, maybe the bottom line will convince Israel to stop killing Palestinian children.
#ShutDownNation Part 7:
130 top Israeli economists sent the Israeli PM a “clear and emphatic warning” of the “high probability” of Israel’s – highly militarized – economy and society falling into a “spiral of collapse.”
Read more ➡️ loom.ly/1ODZOws
130 top Israeli economists sent the Israeli PM a “clear and emphatic warning” of the “high probability” of Israel’s – highly militarized – economy and society falling into a “spiral of collapse.”
Read more ➡️ loom.ly/1ODZOws
December 5, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Some good news. If the moral argument doesn't work, maybe the bottom line will convince Israel to stop killing Palestinian children.
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I am also skeptical of “evidence-based policy.” The idea is often predicated on indifference to the reality that the production and use of evidence is endogenous to political processes. Evidence is important. But it is fundamentally political. So, whether & how it gets used is a matter of power.
November 27, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I am also skeptical of “evidence-based policy.” The idea is often predicated on indifference to the reality that the production and use of evidence is endogenous to political processes. Evidence is important. But it is fundamentally political. So, whether & how it gets used is a matter of power.
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"This decision defunds Māori research and researchers by stealth" Tahu Kukutai in my latest for @science.org on cuts to the Marsden Fund, NZ's only fund for "blue-sky" research; features Paul Spoonley, @nicgaston.bsky.social et al www.science.org/content/arti...
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:21 PM
"This decision defunds Māori research and researchers by stealth" Tahu Kukutai in my latest for @science.org on cuts to the Marsden Fund, NZ's only fund for "blue-sky" research; features Paul Spoonley, @nicgaston.bsky.social et al www.science.org/content/arti...
Full article: Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice
This qualitative study utilized interviews with American Indian/Alaskan Native young adults with lived expertise in foster care, Tribal child welfare workers and court professionals to gather train...
www.tandfonline.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Full article: Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We urgently need to Make Object Permanence Great Again - because this government seems fixated on the notion that problems cease to exist if you don't look at them, and stop everyone else from even trying.
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 PM
We urgently need to Make Object Permanence Great Again - because this government seems fixated on the notion that problems cease to exist if you don't look at them, and stop everyone else from even trying.
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Great demo in London today. #FreePalestine
November 30, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Great demo in London today. #FreePalestine
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Congratulations @drmuireann.bsky.social and co authors on this new publication
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland
Based on an analysis of 14 national child welfare policies, the paper explores how relational and cultural continuity are framed in national foster ca…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Congratulations @drmuireann.bsky.social and co authors on this new publication
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia
This paper reports on interviews with 30 individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, or South Sudan, all of whom had resettled in South Australia. Participants were interviewed abou...
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:53 AM
“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....