Robbie Gilligan
@robbiegilligan.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Active in research relating to children in care, care leavers and care experienced adults.
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Eileen Munro questions overhaul of child protection conference chair role and raises concerns about non-social work qualified staff taking on cases
Munro: children's social care reforms 'very likely to fail' due to scale of change and lack of testing - Community Care
www.communitycare.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Eileen Munro questions overhaul of child protection conference chair role and raises concerns about non-social work qualified staff taking on cases
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This is evil.
How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?
Whay happened to “never again”?
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How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?
Whay happened to “never again”?
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
Nine of Gaza doctor's 10 children 'killed in air strike'
An Israeli air strike hit the home of a doctor in Gaza killing nine of her 10 children, according to the director of the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
www.rte.ie
May 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is evil.
How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?
Whay happened to “never again”?
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
How much barbarsim roes it take, how many war crimes, how at innocent lives lost to such butchery, how much genocide before the world finally days stop?
Whay happened to “never again”?
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
April 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
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Pope Francis beautiful 2025 Easter message. ( which he wrote & had read )
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www.vatican.va/content/fran...
"Urbi et Orbi" - Easter 2025 | Francis
Urbi Et Orbi Message of His Holiness Pope Francis - Easter 2025
www.vatican.va
April 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Pope Francis beautiful 2025 Easter message. ( which he wrote & had read )
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known.
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April 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known.
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LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m
April 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Kirsty Kitchen talks about the need for co-ordinated and consistent national policy and shares the @birthcompanions.bsky.social charter for women with involvement from children's social care www.birthcompanions.org.uk/resources/bi... #PartnershipC
The Birth Charter for women with involvement from children’s social care
www.birthcompanions.org.uk
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Kirsty Kitchen talks about the need for co-ordinated and consistent national policy and shares the @birthcompanions.bsky.social charter for women with involvement from children's social care www.birthcompanions.org.uk/resources/bi... #PartnershipC
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Mississippi, once ranked 49th in #education test scores, is now among the top 20 for 4th grade reading. The state's literacy reforms offer a model for closing early literacy gaps nationwide. An education policy scholar explains (Harry Anthony Patrinos @uarkansas.bsky.social #edusky)
Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform
The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.
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March 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Mississippi, once ranked 49th in #education test scores, is now among the top 20 for 4th grade reading. The state's literacy reforms offer a model for closing early literacy gaps nationwide. An education policy scholar explains (Harry Anthony Patrinos @uarkansas.bsky.social #edusky)
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State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
March 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Atlantic has released the Signal messages.
My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.
They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.
If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.
#FireHegseth #FireWaltz
My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.
They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.
If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.
#FireHegseth #FireWaltz
March 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Atlantic has released the Signal messages.
My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.
They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.
If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.
#FireHegseth #FireWaltz
My company's client data includes financial info and personal information.
They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security.
If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired.
#FireHegseth #FireWaltz
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Steve Baguley talks about how helpful and useful NICE's guidance is on transitions www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng43 #SupportingTransitions
Overview | Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services | Guidance | NICE
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March 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Steve Baguley talks about how helpful and useful NICE's guidance is on transitions www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng43 #SupportingTransitions
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Springtime on the campus. Trinity College Dublin just now.
March 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Springtime on the campus. Trinity College Dublin just now.
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“Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian”
Local democracy in action
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Local democracy in action
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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian”
Local democracy in action
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Local democracy in action
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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So thrilled and grateful to see this generous, deeply thoughtful review.
“There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."
“There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."
Americans prefer to believe that homelessness and employment are mutually exclusive. For @washingtonpost.com, I reviewed @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s paradigm-shifting book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, with a little detour into Sarah Jones’s DISPOSABLE. Gift link: wapo.st/4irDbBx
Review | Who gets housing, and who is ‘disposable’?
Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us” and Sarah Jones’s “Disposable” reckon with how American society has drawn lines that assume certain people are undeserving of security
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March 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
So thrilled and grateful to see this generous, deeply thoughtful review.
“There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."
“There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."
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The Ardagh Chalice • Limerick
In September 1868, a man was digging potatoes alongside the bank of an old ringfort, close to the village of Ardagh. As he did so, he uncovered one of the greatest treasures of Ireland: The Ardagh Chalice.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
In September 1868, a man was digging potatoes alongside the bank of an old ringfort, close to the village of Ardagh. As he did so, he uncovered one of the greatest treasures of Ireland: The Ardagh Chalice.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
March 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Been visiting the Spring Hill playground for about 11 years - it’s just been redeveloped and was looking fab yesterday in the early morning. Word had spread by this today and it was jam packed with kids and parents enjoying the new amenities. Well done DLR! @marthafanning.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Been visiting the Spring Hill playground for about 11 years - it’s just been redeveloped and was looking fab yesterday in the early morning. Word had spread by this today and it was jam packed with kids and parents enjoying the new amenities. Well done DLR! @marthafanning.bsky.social
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Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of the London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
March 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Mapping disease: John Snow, English physician, pioneer of epidemiology, born #OTD 1813; his studies of the London cholera epidemic in 1854 (Broad Street water pump) determined that it was a water borne disease, and led to reforms in public health, urban water supply & waste disposal.
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This unlocked post is about the importance of knowing how to speak and *not* to speak to other people, to attend to others with our words and silence. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-etique...
The Etiquette of Speech
How to stop talking and listen
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March 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This unlocked post is about the importance of knowing how to speak and *not* to speak to other people, to attend to others with our words and silence. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/the-etique...
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Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
March 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Agatha Christie was married to Max Mallowan for 46 years. She once said, "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
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Mario Luis Small & Jessica Calarco (@jessicacalarco.bsky.social) published "For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research" in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/t...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Mario Luis Small & Jessica Calarco (@jessicacalarco.bsky.social) published "For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research" in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/t...