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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great news that my co-authored editorial 'Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety' with Dr Leona Vaughn has been selected by Critical and Radical Social Work for the 2026 student reading list. You can see all 9 selected articles here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Jour...

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Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

✨Wear and share your social work solidarity!✨ How about gifting someone with a SWWB t-shirt, tote bag or sticker this festive season? Order by Friday for Christmas delivery! social-workers-without-borders.teemill.com Every purchase supports our work! #WeAreSocialWorkersWithoutBorders

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New research reveals that thousands of children in the UK are having life changing decisions made about them without being heard. Read the joint report 'Raising Children: Safeguarding Children in Parental Deportation Decisions' here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research...

Raising Children: Safeguarding Children in Parental Deportation Decisions

The Home Office is not meeting its legal duty to safeguard children under Section 55 of the Borders Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009

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Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

‼️New research reveals that thousands of children in the UK are having life changing decisions made about them without being heard. This is the first empirical study of the legal and procedural protections afforded to children with a parent facing deportation. Full report: tinyurl.com/46m9n5r8 1/

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Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

‼️An exciting opportunity. Could you be our next Managing Director? ⚡ We're looking for someone who is energised by, and committed to, our work and values, and who will bring new vision and fresh energy! Find out more about the role & apply here: tinyurl.com/mvyadpue. Closing date: 9am on 12th Jan

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Vacancies - Social Workers Without Borders

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share! @socialworkerswb.bsky.social socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

As more and more bad actors weaponise notions of child safety to legitimise racist attacks on immigration/migrants it’s so important to see cross-sectoral opposition! 💥

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Antonio La Picirella, Day 3 on ‘Handala’

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings!

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Back on strike! Sign the petition below to demand Durham University management rule out compulsory redundancies & work with @ducu.bsky.social to find non-staff cost savings! ✊🏼❤️

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

As we gear up for strike action tomorrow & Saturday, we'd like to take a moment to extend heartfelt thanks to those who've donated to our hardship fund, including: IWW Northumbria Branch (£300), UCU Birmingham (£100), the OU branch (£250) and numerous individuals giving generous personal donations.

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Times & places for today's strike action: 8.30–11.00 Pickets at main crossroads entrance (by the 'What Lies Beneath' map) 11.00–12.30 SGIA Teachout: Whose History? Statues and the Politics of Decolonisation, online & in Dunelm House B16 Friday 12.30–14.30 Branch Strategy Session, Dunelm House Lounge

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Nathalie Huegler @nhuegler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our new paper is out led by @lauriewroe.bsky.social & with Delphine Peace on learning from #Contextualsafeguarding Across Borders with refugee young people in Germany. Interesting to be bilingual researcher on the project - reminder of how language/trajectories shape contexts & concepts.

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#Socialworkers! #Migrantjustice activists - give Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social a follow on here 👀❤️

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Also, while we're talking about our strike, a lot of students have been asking how they can support us (being fully aware of who actually has their backs in this uni), and what it means to cross (or not cross) a picket line in this case. We'll defer here to our excellent Instagram team on this one.

Should I cross a picket line?

A: "Don't cross a picket line" can mean not going to work if your colleagues are on strike or not giving money to a business if its workers are on strike.

It doesn't mean you need to disrupt your studies! To support the strike you could stop by the picket line on your way to the library, or email Uni management to ask them to work with us.

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Very proud as UCUC treasurer to have authorized a payment of £500 to the Good Law Project today!

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Jamie Callahan @profjamiec.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Mgt just refuses to call off compulsory redundancies, saying they want to prioritise “voluntary” severance. This is a classic risk aversion dilemma—the more people believe the Uni will sack them anyway, the more likely they are to take the VS £ although they’d rather stay. That’s not voluntary!

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sign sign sign! Our jobs are on the line!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/04/2025

Solidarity with UCU members at Durham Univeristy Striking today. Staff are standing up against job cuts and defending the future of education! ✊ #ProtectEducationNow #UCU

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Rally time! Jamie lays it out!

Jamie speaking to the picketers and supporters at the Durham UCU strike rally, the branch banner in the background.

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs. An attack on one is an attack on all! Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed! We are *all* the university!

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

ON STRIKE as a member of Durham UCU in response to Durham University management’s proposed staff cuts of £20m. University management has refused DUCU requests to stop compulsory redundancies & to work with us to find non-staff cost savings. Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Full themed section for Critical and Radical Social Work with Dr Leona Vaughn @bupjournals.bsky.social now online 👀 Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety. All available here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... (Accidentally deleted original post)

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Rachael Owen's and Jenny Lloyd have a new book with @brisunipress.bsky.social Documenting their extensive experience of working alongside practitioners to change systems. The book is about how we feel and do systems change- plus poems! policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/doing-real-l...

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Doing Real-Life Change in Children’s Social Care

Doing Real-Life Change in Children’s Social Care - Embedded Research in Practice; For years, parents, young people, scholars, campaigners and politicians have called for change in the way that service...

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Read the full editorial here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Know anyone who might be interested in a part time Operations Manager role at Social Workers Without Borders? Take a look below and please share! @socialworkerswb.bsky.social www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/social-...

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Operations Manager | Social Workers Without Borders | CharityJob

Apply now for Operations Manager. , £33,000 per year, find a career with meaning today

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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

From an idea in the NWSSDTP Youth Risk Research Network @livunihss.bsky.social , to fully fledged special issue: 📢'Race Class & Weaponisation of Child Safety' Thanks to amazing co-editor @lauriewroe.bsky.social & our contributors bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #race #class

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Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is such an important and timely special issue. It's well worth a read! @theswag.bsky.social @michaellavalette.bsky.social #SocialWork #ChildProtection

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Myself and @drleona.bsky.social have edited a new Special Collection for Critical and Radical Social Work: 'Race, Class and the Weaponisation of Child Safety' - now available online! Editorial here: shorturl.at/nj4O9 Links to the other papers in the thread below (almost all Open Access!) 👇

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Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety

"Race, class and the weaponisation of child safety" published on 24 Feb 2025 by Policy Press.

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

New book chapter 'Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality' with Will Mason in the Handbook on Crime and Inequality from @stephenfarrall.bsky.social and @susanmcvie.bsky.social Available here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... And here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

On my way home from Warwick Law School, talking about the politicisation of child safeguarding, racist folk devils and the ‘soft’ power of the State. Much more organising to do against the racist policing of Black young people and their communities under the guise of safeguarding

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“Pine Grove (fire camp) carries on this unique legacy of labor exploitation, employing teenage boys and young men — many of whom have been incarcerated for a significant portion of their youth — to do life-threatening work that serves communities they haven’t had a chance to be part of as adults.”

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

International Federation of Social Workers issues censure against the Israeli Union of Social Workers for not acting to promote peace in Palestine “The IUSW’s refusal to request the Israeli government exempt social workers from combat roles is a breach of the Statement of Ethical Principles”

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Really recommend this book for all social workers - story of Malik Al Nasir’s journey through our broken care system & his friendship with & mentoring from Gill Scott-Heron. It’s a wild ride & a powerful reminder of what care really looks like. Essential reading for social work students!

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New Year is a time for plans and manifestos. In this #ACFM microdose Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I go back to the source and read The Communist Manifesto by OGs Marx and Engels. Listen as we explore a text containing 'banger after banger' quotations novaramedia.com/2025/01/03/a...

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Reading the Communist Manifesto | Novara Media

The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of Marx and Engels' endlessly quotable 1848 tract.

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A K K A S 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 @hokkolorob.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

From 2022 to 2024, 100,000 people died trying to cross the English Channel.

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

2025 work intentions: 1. Work & organise with projects & people up for challenging power & supporting resistance 2. Do so whilst remembering that my time belongs to me not the institution - support my local Union branch 3. Continue to make complaints about rude reviewers 😆 - culture needs to change

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I haven’t really joined in on here yet! But myself and the wonderful Steve Crossley have just wrapped up this terms Abolitionist seminar series 💥 for the Communities and Social Justice research group at Durham Sociology - and it was great! For those of us working in practice reform - a must!

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Important news today! 🎉 Proud to work with @migrantsorganise.bsky.social and many others to fight for access to justice.

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Social work Bluesky - who has traced the roots of UK social work in Britain's imperial/colonial past? In the way that say policing is traced to the quelling of unrest in occupied Ireland etc?

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A great (and beautiful!) safeguarding resource from @actbuildchange.com and The National Survivor User Network: assets.actbuildchange.com/production/f...

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Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

www.contextualsafeguarding.org.uk/resources/to...

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