Helen Scholar
@drhelenscholar.bsky.social
Retired social work academic, still interested and involved, but with more time for socialising, singing, walking, researching my Irish family and ag foghlaim Gaelige (slowly).
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Why the dossier that took down the BBC might be wrong
YouTube video by LBC
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November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏
History.
A call for papers on 'Ritual Artefacts & their images for medieval liturgy' in Madrid next January with special focus on 'three main categories of liturgical artefacts' ritual objects (such as reliquaries, crosses, censers), vestments and liturgical books. eventos.urjc.es/137188/secti...
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
CONTESTING NEOLIBERAL REFORM OF STATUTORY SOCIAL WORK IN SWITZERLAND AND ENGLAND: DISCRETIONARY SPACES, COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE AND ETHICO-POLITICAL PROFESSIONALISM
Moth, R. et al / The British Journal of Social Work
#openaccess #socialwork
doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...
Moth, R. et al / The British Journal of Social Work
#openaccess #socialwork
doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...
June 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Boston Consulting Group, key backer of
@frontlinesw.bsky.social
(Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes.
How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession?
Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.
@frontlinesw.bsky.social
(Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes.
How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession?
Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.
June 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Boston Consulting Group, key backer of
@frontlinesw.bsky.social
(Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes.
How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession?
Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.
@frontlinesw.bsky.social
(Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes.
How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession?
Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.
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An unusual favour. I have a chance of potentially making money from TikTok to help pay costs incurred when doing @projectinfant.ie.
If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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June 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
An unusual favour. I have a chance of potentially making money from TikTok to help pay costs incurred when doing @projectinfant.ie.
If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
Enter Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir and close ally of Musk. Thiel and his company are now central to Trump’s newest plan: building a massive government-run database on every American.
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Enter Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir and close ally of Musk. Thiel and his company are now central to Trump’s newest plan: building a massive government-run database on every American.
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Enter Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir and close ally of Musk. Thiel and his company are now central to Trump’s newest plan: building a massive government-run database on every American.
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I try to visualise the work that my volunteers & I do at @projectinfant.ie, but sometimes I need it in front of me.
These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658.
It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658.
It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
May 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I try to visualise the work that my volunteers & I do at @projectinfant.ie, but sometimes I need it in front of me.
These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658.
It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658.
It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
The planned 2 year social work induction, replacing the ASYE "is likely to be a deterrent for those who might have thought of employment within local authority children’s services, increasing recruitment difficulties" - Important analysis here from Ray Jones.
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/23/r...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/23/r...
Ray Jones: a critique of the DfE's children's social work reforms - Community Care
Planned children's social work reforms risk increasing the number of child protection cases and undermining family support, says Ray Jones
www.communitycare.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
"My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it." time.com/7285045/resi...
"My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it." time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
"My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it." time.com/7285045/resi...
"My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it." time.com/7285045/resi...
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![[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dhhz5k7owf4kreqz2hr3ml2/bafkreibf6vaooblixs7bmeqtyxiolz3pexgx7v6qhs5tercmbnhsmvogry@jpeg)
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
May 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I heard earlier that a local school is mandating trousers for female students from September because of the number of upskirting incidents...by boys..
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I heard earlier that a local school is mandating trousers for female students from September because of the number of upskirting incidents...by boys..
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The last time social work student bursaries increased was 2014. That’s the year of the ice-bucket challenge, Scottish independence vote, Interstellar, King Joffrey’s death, Brazil World Cup, Pharrell's "Happy"... That is history, and this is a scandal.
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/01/s...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/01/s...
Social work bursary levels frozen for 11th consecutive year - Community Care
Social work bursary rates worth £1,200 to £1,900 less annually than they would have been had they kept pace with inflation since 2014
www.communitycare.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The last time social work student bursaries increased was 2014. That’s the year of the ice-bucket challenge, Scottish independence vote, Interstellar, King Joffrey’s death, Brazil World Cup, Pharrell's "Happy"... That is history, and this is a scandal.
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/01/s...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/01/s...
@socwkhistory.bsky.social I wonder if anyone can suggest sources of information about the role of "social workers" in hospitals prior to implementation of the 1926 Adoption legislation? I am helping someone to identify her adopted father's birth family. He was born in hospital in March 1926.
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@socwkhistory.bsky.social I wonder if anyone can suggest sources of information about the role of "social workers" in hospitals prior to implementation of the 1926 Adoption legislation? I am helping someone to identify her adopted father's birth family. He was born in hospital in March 1926.
Funding pulled first from Unlocked Graduates and now Think Ahead. Is the writing on the wall for the Teach First model?
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/04/30/f...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/04/30/f...
Fast-track social work scheme to end in 2027 after government decides to withdraw funding - Community Care
Department of Health and Social Care will not renew Think Ahead's contract to deliver fast-track mental health social work scheme
www.communitycare.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Hawthorn’
Trees, 1963.
Artist: SR Badmin
Trees, 1963.
Artist: SR Badmin
May 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Hawthorn’
Trees, 1963.
Artist: SR Badmin
Trees, 1963.
Artist: SR Badmin
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It’s the things you don’t realize Musk will cut until he does. DOGE has slashed funding for a reading program serving dyslexic children at the historic Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky.
April 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It’s the things you don’t realize Musk will cut until he does. DOGE has slashed funding for a reading program serving dyslexic children at the historic Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky.
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Here's the UKs upcoming Trump
April 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Here's the UKs upcoming Trump
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An ‘Executive Order’ is not, legally speaking, a thing by itself.
A president has no universal power to rule by mere decree.
An Executive Order only has legal force to the extent other laws (constitution, statutes) provide for that order to have effect.
A president has no universal power to rule by mere decree.
An Executive Order only has legal force to the extent other laws (constitution, statutes) provide for that order to have effect.
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
An ‘Executive Order’ is not, legally speaking, a thing by itself.
A president has no universal power to rule by mere decree.
An Executive Order only has legal force to the extent other laws (constitution, statutes) provide for that order to have effect.
A president has no universal power to rule by mere decree.
An Executive Order only has legal force to the extent other laws (constitution, statutes) provide for that order to have effect.
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