Christian Kerr
@realchristiankerr.bsky.social
Social worker. Lecturer. Elected director: BASW. Resource review editor: Practice - Social Work in Action. Co-editor: The Future of Children’s Care - Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform. And then…
BASW members! Help us to lead the conversation on AI in Social Work... Join our new member-led group to explore, influence, critique, and innovate around the use of digital tools, data, and emerging technologies in social work.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BASW members! Help us to lead the conversation on AI in Social Work... Join our new member-led group to explore, influence, critique, and innovate around the use of digital tools, data, and emerging technologies in social work.
Contact: rosanne.palmer@basw.co.uk
Contact: rosanne.palmer@basw.co.uk
Very sad to hear of the passing of social worker and activist Angi Naylor, who gave so much of herself, her humour, her unforgettable character, her time and energy to standing up for people and supporting others whenever and wherever she could. Rest well Angi xxx
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Very sad to hear of the passing of social worker and activist Angi Naylor, who gave so much of herself, her humour, her unforgettable character, her time and energy to standing up for people and supporting others whenever and wherever she could. Rest well Angi xxx
Resources Review Editor sought for Practice: Social Work in Action journal.
Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?
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Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?
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September 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Resources Review Editor sought for Practice: Social Work in Action journal.
Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?
Read on: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?
Read on: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Truly astonishing that other parties, politicians and the media aren’t taking Farage and his ilk to task over the fact that net immigration INCREASED as a direct result of Brexit.
Do your homework and challenge this pernicious disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Do your homework and challenge this pernicious disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live
Nigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship
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September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Truly astonishing that other parties, politicians and the media aren’t taking Farage and his ilk to task over the fact that net immigration INCREASED as a direct result of Brexit.
Do your homework and challenge this pernicious disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Do your homework and challenge this pernicious disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Largely unreported by the press, Wes Streeting attended the secretive, invitation-only Bilderberg 2025 summit at which politicians and billionaires met to opaquely and unaccountably discuss things that profoundly affect all of us.
Why was he there?
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Why was he there?
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Wes Streeting mixes with tech billionaires at Bilderberg summit | Christian Kerr
Largely unreported by the press (save for a piece in the Daily Mail, of all places) was health and social care secretary Wes Streeting's attendance at the secretive, invitation-only Bilderberg 2025 su...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Largely unreported by the press, Wes Streeting attended the secretive, invitation-only Bilderberg 2025 summit at which politicians and billionaires met to opaquely and unaccountably discuss things that profoundly affect all of us.
Why was he there?
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Why was he there?
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They never change unless we make them: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
They never change unless we make them: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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🔴‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...
‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse – and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
bylinetimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🔴‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...
Credit to workers and unions taking a stand against Coventry council’s contract with US spy tech firm Palantir for AI ‘solutions’ in children's services, which the council is now reviewing.
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What price social workers' time? Why a council’s decision to use Palantir AI in social work and children's services is alarming beyond belief | Christian Kerr
Credit to workers and unions taking a stand against Coventry council’s contract with US spy tech firm Palantir for AI ‘solutions’ in children's services, which the council is now reviewing.
Sadly, ca...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Credit to workers and unions taking a stand against Coventry council’s contract with US spy tech firm Palantir for AI ‘solutions’ in children's services, which the council is now reviewing.
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Once again, reporting on MacAlister and Frontline fails to mention that he co-founded Frontline with Boston Consulting Group - which remains on Frontline’s board - a $multibillion consultancy well known to be involved in deeply unethical activities.… 👇
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Former social worker Janet Daby replaced by ex-Frontline chief Josh MacAlister as children's minister - Community Care | Christian Kerr
Once again, reporting on MacAlister and Frontline fails to mention that he co-founded the organisation with Boston Consulting Group - which remains on Frontline’s board to this day - a multibillion do...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Once again, reporting on MacAlister and Frontline fails to mention that he co-founded Frontline with Boston Consulting Group - which remains on Frontline’s board - a $multibillion consultancy well known to be involved in deeply unethical activities.… 👇
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Coventry council’s decision to use US spy-tech firm Palantir’s AI in social work, Send and children’s services is ALARMING BEYOND BELIEF - here's why...
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What price social workers' time? Why a council’s decision to use Palantir AI in social work and children's services is alarming beyond belief
Coventry council’s decision to use US spy-tech firm Palantir’s AI in social work, Send and children’s services, including to aid in case-note transcription and other time-intensive administrative task...
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August 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Coventry council’s decision to use US spy-tech firm Palantir’s AI in social work, Send and children’s services is ALARMING BEYOND BELIEF - here's why...
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Drawing on timely debates and grounded in empirical evidence, Kalwant Bhopal reveals how #Race continues to shape access to power, opportunity and justice.
#WhitePrivilege #CriticalRaceTheory #BLM
Publishing next month:
#WhitePrivilege #CriticalRaceTheory #BLM
Publishing next month:
buff.ly
August 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Drawing on timely debates and grounded in empirical evidence, Kalwant Bhopal reveals how #Race continues to shape access to power, opportunity and justice.
#WhitePrivilege #CriticalRaceTheory #BLM
Publishing next month:
#WhitePrivilege #CriticalRaceTheory #BLM
Publishing next month:
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This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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August 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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‘AI is here to stay, so we better adopt it’ isn’t a hopeful or empowered position.
It’s capitulation in the face of coercion.
More hopeful and empowering is to
say, ‘let’s slow down on this until we better understand the implications so we can use it well and avoid inadvertent harm’.
It’s capitulation in the face of coercion.
More hopeful and empowering is to
say, ‘let’s slow down on this until we better understand the implications so we can use it well and avoid inadvertent harm’.
August 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
‘AI is here to stay, so we better adopt it’ isn’t a hopeful or empowered position.
It’s capitulation in the face of coercion.
More hopeful and empowering is to
say, ‘let’s slow down on this until we better understand the implications so we can use it well and avoid inadvertent harm’.
It’s capitulation in the face of coercion.
More hopeful and empowering is to
say, ‘let’s slow down on this until we better understand the implications so we can use it well and avoid inadvertent harm’.
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I'm tired of being treated like a crank because I want to uphold the integrity of the institution and of education more generally. I'm tired of my opinions, shaped by hours and hours of research, being dismissed because they don't align with what admin already decided they wanted
August 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I'm tired of being treated like a crank because I want to uphold the integrity of the institution and of education more generally. I'm tired of my opinions, shaped by hours and hours of research, being dismissed because they don't align with what admin already decided they wanted
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At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks
August 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks
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I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.
The BritCard is xenophobic techno-totalitarianism straight out of the fetid imagination of Morgan McSweeney, the unelected, six-figure salaried 'most powerful man in politics' and his shady Labour Together think tank that has totally captured the PLP.
July 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The BritCard is xenophobic techno-totalitarianism straight out of the fetid imagination of Morgan McSweeney, the unelected, six-figure salaried 'most powerful man in politics' and his shady Labour Together think tank that has totally captured the PLP.
‘We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.‘
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‘1 — We will not use GenAI to mark or provide feedback on student work, nor to design any part of our courses. | Christian Kerr
‘1 — We will not use GenAI to mark or provide feedback on student work, nor to design any part of our courses.
2 — We will not promote institutional GenAI products built on unethically-developed foun...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
‘We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.‘
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'AI increases what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt called “institutional thoughtlessness” – the inability to critique instructions or reflect on consequences.'
Implications for social work?
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Implications for social work?
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...
Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix
AI’s social benefits are unproven but its harms are clear. We must kick out the bad politics and mould a better future, says Dan McQuillan.
thesociologicalreview.org
July 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
'AI increases what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt called “institutional thoughtlessness” – the inability to critique instructions or reflect on consequences.'
Implications for social work?
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...
Implications for social work?
thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...
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England’s state education system in one cartoon…
July 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
England’s state education system in one cartoon…
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has published a case note and some case summaries relating to AI and academic misconduct.
What is clear from the note and summaries is that we educators need to get better at a few things...
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What is clear from the note and summaries is that we educators need to get better at a few things...
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The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has published a case note and some case summaries relating to AI and academic misconduct. | Christian Kerr
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has published a case note and some case summaries relating to AI and academic misconduct.
What is clear from the note and summaries is ...
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July 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has published a case note and some case summaries relating to AI and academic misconduct.
What is clear from the note and summaries is that we educators need to get better at a few things...
www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...
What is clear from the note and summaries is that we educators need to get better at a few things...
www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...
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"Since the dawn of devolution in 1999, Wales has proudly positioned itself as a nation that puts children’s rights at the heart of policy. But for too many babies, children, and young people – especially those in need of extra support – that promise remains unfulfilled."
Wales must turn promises into rights for its children
Despite decades of promises, too many Welsh children still lack basic rights – now a bold new law aims to turn rhetoric into reality
bylines.cymru
July 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Since the dawn of devolution in 1999, Wales has proudly positioned itself as a nation that puts children’s rights at the heart of policy. But for too many babies, children, and young people – especially those in need of extra support – that promise remains unfulfilled."
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Rachael Cummings from Save the Children: "The situation is absolutely desperate.. this is the worst its ever been.. there is not enough food.. the water is dirty.. there is open sewage in the streets.. there is nowhere safe.. the overcrowding is extreme.. people are exhausted"
July 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Rachael Cummings from Save the Children: "The situation is absolutely desperate.. this is the worst its ever been.. there is not enough food.. the water is dirty.. there is open sewage in the streets.. there is nowhere safe.. the overcrowding is extreme.. people are exhausted"
Literally, a solution in search of a problem: OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models
Welcome to the era of business-led public services.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Welcome to the era of business-led public services.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models
Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Literally, a solution in search of a problem: OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models
Welcome to the era of business-led public services.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Welcome to the era of business-led public services.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...