1/ This thread is a shorter version of a much longer guest blog I have written about the #KeepCaringTo18 campaign on @SWConcern's blog page here: socialwhatnow.medium.com/guest-blog-by-… 2/ The campaign’s fighting to get the Government to guarantee care for all under 18-year olds in state care in England. Under Government proposals to regulate currently unregulated accommodation, 16- and 17-year-olds will have no right to receive care.

This thread is also missing some things...

Can you provide a source for claim 26% of social work graduates are not in social work jobs to start with? Are you including in this 26% those in residential child care, voluntary sector roles, community work roles, adult sector roles?

https://twitter.com/JoshMacAlister/status/1286718198033854464

If so a problem is the narrow definition of what social work is. I'm proud graduates from trad courses go into the above roles - an entirely appopriate use of skills gained on a SW degree. SW includes statutory SW roles, it is not restricted to them, most of us always said so.

1/9 The search goes on for the organisation, outside of central Government, which was consulted about SI445 and fully supports the changes....

Gov Memorandum accompanying SI445 stated the DfE 'consulted informally with the sector' before introducing the SI

https://twitter.com/LGAChildren/status/1257227150299664384

2/9 The Memo stated Gov had consulted the LGA over SI445, yet @LGAChildren says it was not consulted

Thread on UK Gov claim it could not respect 21 day Parliamentary consultation period for The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, which undermined safeguards for children in care. They claimed waiting would put services under 'extraordinary pressure' Covid presents big challenges for services. But is there evidence children's homes are currently under the 'extraordinary pressure' claimed? Not according to an Independent Children’s Homes Association report that staffing levels are at 95% despite Covid cypnow.co.uk/news/article/c…

Thread about a new free online social work magazine which will run during the Covid Crisis: Social Work 2020 under Covid-19, managed by an initial editorial collective of @Acsocialwork @AnnaGupta2 @SocialWhatNow @GMacIntyre293 @Abyd56 and myself #SocialWork2020Covid19 The magazine arises out of a belief that there is much currently going on of high relevance to social work and social care in the UK under Covid-19, but there lacks an accessible format to bring some of those discussions together in a timely way