Richard Servian
@serwianski.bsky.social
Sometime Social Worker, voyager, County Cricket fan, Labourist, 60/70s Rock Gods concert goer, Black Country dweller…. Read lots of fiction…
City council probe pledge into 'criminality' claims facing homeless 'exempt' 'supported' housing firm
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City council probe pledge into 'criminality' claims facing homeless housing firm
The demise of Midland Livings, linked to the city's rife exempt supported accommodation sector, was raised at a meeting of Birmingham City Council
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December 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
City council probe pledge into 'criminality' claims facing homeless 'exempt' 'supported' housing firm
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“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer.
‘So, what did you do wrong?’”
This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social
‘So, what did you do wrong?’”
This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social
“So, what did you do wrong?” | Lyric Essay
November 2025 is the first National Care Leavers Month, so here is a piece about the question I get asked most when people find out I grew up in care.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer.
‘So, what did you do wrong?’”
This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social
‘So, what did you do wrong?’”
This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social
Really? 'West Midlands Police reintroduces horses after 26-year absence'
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West Midlands Police reintroduces horses after 26-year absence
West Midlands Police has five new horses, which went into service on Monday.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Really? 'West Midlands Police reintroduces horses after 26-year absence'
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Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages | The Verge share.google/tFiz2i2UJeJ7...
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages | The Verge share.google/tFiz2i2UJeJ7...
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Regional care co-operatives to take responsibility for care placements across England, says MacAlister
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Regional care co-operatives to take responsibility for placements - Community Care
Josh MacAlister says that rollout of regional care co-operatives will be sped up and it will become future model for care system
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December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Regional care co-operatives to take responsibility for care placements across England, says MacAlister
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www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/12/01/r...
Ofsted 'children's homes providers putting profit before need' So Bears really do do it in the woods.
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Children’s home providers in England putting profit over need, says Ofsted
Watchdog says trend of care homes being registered in cheap areas, not where need is greatest, is ‘national scandal’
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ofsted 'children's homes providers putting profit before need' So Bears really do do it in the woods.
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It went to the Lords over 8 months ago. There has been no action in 2.5 months.
Why are the Lords delaying this important legislation?
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Why are the Lords delaying this important legislation?
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Ofsted annual report warns against ‘profiteering’ in children’s homes sector
Annual report sees great work being done by education and care professionals but there are concerns about the rapid growth in children’s homes, and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable children r...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It went to the Lords over 8 months ago. There has been no action in 2.5 months.
Why are the Lords delaying this important legislation?
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Why are the Lords delaying this important legislation?
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Nick Robinson doing his utmost to extend the NHS Residential Doctors dispute on the Today programme
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Nick Robinson doing his utmost to extend the NHS Residential Doctors dispute on the Today programme
‘Report shows social services facing massive rise in safeguarding concerns’ www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
Dudley Council report says safeguarding reports rose by 300 percent in a decade
Dudley Council social services are facing a huge 300 percent increase in safeguarding reports but resources to cope are in decline
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December 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
‘Report shows social services facing massive rise in safeguarding concerns’ www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
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📝 BASW is seeking clarification from the Home Secretary on how new plans for earned settled status will impact social workers.
We will always stand up for social workers and ensure that the voice of our profession is heard throughout government.
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We will always stand up for social workers and ensure that the voice of our profession is heard throughout government.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📝 BASW is seeking clarification from the Home Secretary on how new plans for earned settled status will impact social workers.
We will always stand up for social workers and ensure that the voice of our profession is heard throughout government.
🔗 basw.co.uk/articles/bas...
We will always stand up for social workers and ensure that the voice of our profession is heard throughout government.
🔗 basw.co.uk/articles/bas...
NHS exec taken over by DHSC with big cuts to local NHS organisation and the local resources they run . Will it improve the NHS? www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NHS exec taken over by DHSC with big cuts to local NHS organisation and the local resources they run . Will it improve the NHS? www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Maybe new rail/ light rail lines can make a difference..
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West Midlands Metro’s route draws a poverty line in Dudley, data shows
The route of the West Midlands Metro in Dudley draws a poverty line highlighting the gap between the borough’s rich and poor.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Maybe new rail/ light rail lines can make a difference..
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
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Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
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Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
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November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Bring back the West Midlands Tram Conductor! Now Trams will feel less safe and punitive.
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West Midlands Metro fines to increase to £100 in 2026
The service connects Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bring back the West Midlands Tram Conductor! Now Trams will feel less safe and punitive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Think The Serpent Queen on @channel4.bsky.social is far to good to be only on at 2am in the small hours …
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Think The Serpent Queen on @channel4.bsky.social is far to good to be only on at 2am in the small hours …
Interesting but not very enlightening letter by Simon Foster, WMPCC, who I voted for and supported at meetings. Seems to be some lack of recognition that anti Jewish (not just antiZionist) sentiment is around in the West Mids, a lot of it by ‘Gammon’ . committees.parliament.uk/publications...
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Interesting but not very enlightening letter by Simon Foster, WMPCC, who I voted for and supported at meetings. Seems to be some lack of recognition that anti Jewish (not just antiZionist) sentiment is around in the West Mids, a lot of it by ‘Gammon’ . committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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A reminder that the consultation for the Government Review of @socialworkengland.bsky.social finishes on 26th November www.gov.uk/government/g...
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A reminder that the consultation for the Government Review of @socialworkengland.bsky.social finishes on 26th November www.gov.uk/government/g...
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Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror
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Flag campaign chief praised by Tommy Robinson facing jail over ‘holiday scam’
Ryan Bridge, ringleader of the Raise the Colours movement heralded by ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson, is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain
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November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Duralex next to disappear? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Duralex next to disappear? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Dick Gaughan www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1Q...
By the People - Dick Gaughan
YouTube video by Robert Hulshof-Schmidt
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November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dick Gaughan www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1Q...
Shropshire going bankrupt
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Time ticking to save Shropshire Council from going bust
Shropshire Council's leader says it needs a government loan within weeks.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Shropshire going bankrupt
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France investigate Holocaust Denial on Musk's X/ Grok
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French authorities investigate alleged Holocaust denial posts on Elon Musk’s Grok AI
X chatbot suggested gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ‘designed for disinfection’ not mass executions Europe live
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November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
France investigate Holocaust Denial on Musk's X/ Grok
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Alan Milburn talking about 'whole systems failure' and 'vertical silos' and 'radical new approaches' . Has zzzPolicy theory moved on since the 90s or is this just Alan Milburn....
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Alan Milburn talking about 'whole systems failure' and 'vertical silos' and 'radical new approaches' . Has zzzPolicy theory moved on since the 90s or is this just Alan Milburn....
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To BASW members out there, you will be aware of recent events in BASW. Many questions remain unanswered and there is now a clear call for an EGM. I support that call and would encourage members to make use of this link to gather the necessary support. Thank you. forms.gle/iU9H8WoXzjWU...
BASW EGM?
What’s happening to our professional association?
Are you confident or satisfied with the explanations you have received about the financial health of our professional association, BASW? Are you confi...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To BASW members out there, you will be aware of recent events in BASW. Many questions remain unanswered and there is now a clear call for an EGM. I support that call and would encourage members to make use of this link to gather the necessary support. Thank you. forms.gle/iU9H8WoXzjWU...
A reminder that the consultation for the Government Review of @socialworkengland.bsky.social finishes on 26th November www.gov.uk/government/g...
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A reminder that the consultation for the Government Review of @socialworkengland.bsky.social finishes on 26th November www.gov.uk/government/g...