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Pelé, Sports, and Hope

Beyond Advocacy

The King of Football, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pelé, was among the notables who passed away in 2022 , a list that includes Pope Benedict XVI, Queen Elizabeth II, Sidney Poitier, Bill Russell, Barbara Walters, and many more familiar names as the early television generation begin exiting the planet.

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Children’s Social Work Collective: a new advocacy group for social work in the UK

The Frontline

My passion for getting involved in policy work really stemmed from my first experiences of volunteering in Northern France with unaccompanied minors (children who have travelled alone through Europe in search of safety). There were only two legal options for unaccompanied minors to get to the UK at the time.

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Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain

The Guardian

No matter that leaving the EU has tangled up businesses in form-filling, fees and a new world of unbelievable complexity: Rishi Sunak says he wants to “go further and faster in using the freedoms Brexit has given us to cut the mass of EU regulations and bureaucracy holding back our growth”.

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International Conference for Social Work Students

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Available in more than 500 languages , it is the most translated document in the world. However, in the course of the transnationalization of social problems in the globalized world, the importance of human rights as a strong instrument in the field of social work becomes more significant. Duration of the conference : 2 days.

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Equitable Education

The Critical Blog

However, these are not binary situations and research has shown that the best education systems on the world have both equity and excellence. The first is Coronavirus (Covid-19), the invisible and lethal pandemic that has swept the world, affecting millions across the globe, and claiming the lives of hundreds and thousands.

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When Governments Practice Foresight

Social Work Futures

Imagining the future with citizens: Participatory foresight and democratic policy designn in Marcoussis, France (2021). Foresight in the state public service in France: An overview (2020). Visions from France and Japan (2022). Features of effective systemic foresight in governments around the world (2021).

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Why Assess?

The Critical Blog

Notable psychiatrists have challenged the objective basis of psychiatric diagnoses: the reliability of diagnosis (Rosenhan, 1973 ), the arbitrary tendency to medicalise behaviour (Szasz, 1974 ; Lane, 2008 ), and the presentation of subjective, fallible personal judgements as objective diag- noses (Frances, 2013 ). London: Routledge.