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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Two concrete, actionable pledges from Calum Gallacher, current Assistant General Secretary of the Social Workers Union and candidate for General Secretary in the upcoming election. SWU MEMBERS: Look out for your ballot papers in the post and vote for the change that’s needed! 👏

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This. Literally, putting his money where his mouth is. 👏👏👏 Just one among many good reasons to vote for Calum Gallacher for General Secretary of the Social Workers Union.

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

‼️Important opportunity for members with any concerns or queries regarding the changes at BASW over recent months to ask any questions at this end-of-year Q & A event with the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Interim CEO & members of BASW Council: basw.co.uk/events/basw-...

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BASW End-of-Year Q&A Meeting

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

BASW members! Help us to lead the conversation on AI in Social Work... Join our new member-led group to explore, influence, critique, and innovate around the use of digital tools, data, and emerging technologies in social work. Contact: rosanne.palmer@basw.co.uk

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Very sad to hear of the passing of social worker and activist Angi Naylor, who gave so much of herself, her humour, her unforgettable character, her time and energy to standing up for people and supporting others whenever and wherever she could. Rest well Angi xxx

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Resources Review Editor sought for Practice: Social Work in Action journal. Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community? Read on: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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Resources Review Editor needed for Practice

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Truly astonishing that other parties, politicians and the media aren’t taking Farage and his ilk to task over the fact that net immigration INCREASED as a direct result of Brexit. Do your homework and challenge this pernicious disinformation. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live

Nigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Largely unreported by the press, Wes Streeting attended the secretive, invitation-only Bilderberg 2025 summit at which politicians and billionaires met to opaquely and unaccountably discuss things that profoundly affect all of us. Why was he there? www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Wes Streeting mixes with tech billionaires at Bilderberg summit | Christian Kerr

Largely unreported by the press (save for a piece in the Daily Mail, of all places) was health and social care secretary Wes Streeting's attendance at the secretive, invitation-only Bilderberg 2025 su...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🔴‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...

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‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate

Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse – and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Once again, reporting on MacAlister and Frontline fails to mention that he co-founded Frontline with Boston Consulting Group - which remains on Frontline’s board - a $multibillion consultancy well known to be involved in deeply unethical activities.… 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Former social worker Janet Daby replaced by ex-Frontline chief Josh MacAlister as children's minister - Community Care | Christian Kerr

Once again, reporting on MacAlister and Frontline fails to mention that he co-founded the organisation with Boston Consulting Group - which remains on Frontline’s board to this day - a multibillion do...

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Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Drawing on timely debates and grounded in empirical evidence, Kalwant Bhopal reveals how #Race continues to shape access to power, opportunity and justice. #WhitePrivilege #CriticalRaceTheory #BLM Publishing next month:

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper. 1/

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

‘AI is here to stay, so we better adopt it’ isn’t a hopeful or empowered position. It’s capitulation in the face of coercion. More hopeful and empowering is to say, ‘let’s slow down on this until we better understand the implications so we can use it well and avoid inadvertent harm’.

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The BritCard is xenophobic techno-totalitarianism straight out of the fetid imagination of Morgan McSweeney, the unelected, six-figure salaried 'most powerful man in politics' and his shady Labour Together think tank that has totally captured the PLP.

Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

'AI increases what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt called “institutional thoughtlessness” – the inability to critique instructions or reflect on consequences.' Implications for social work? thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...

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Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix

AI’s social benefits are unproven but its harms are clear. We must kick out the bad politics and mould a better future, says Dan McQuillan.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

England’s state education system in one cartoon…

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"Since the dawn of devolution in 1999, Wales has proudly positioned itself as a nation that puts children’s rights at the heart of policy. But for too many babies, children, and young people – especially those in need of extra support – that promise remains unfulfilled."

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Wales must turn promises into rights for its children

Despite decades of promises, too many Welsh children still lack basic rights – now a bold new law aims to turn rhetoric into reality

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Rachael Cummings from Save the Children: "The situation is absolutely desperate.. this is the worst its ever been.. there is not enough food.. the water is dirty.. there is open sewage in the streets.. there is nowhere safe.. the overcrowding is extreme.. people are exhausted"

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Literally, a solution in search of a problem: OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models Welcome to the era of business-led public services. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models

Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“The public sector is viewed as one of the most fertile areas for the implementation of AI” Precisely why social work needs to slow down, exercise caution and remain in control, not be led by eye-catching promises of putative benefits from vested interests. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal

Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after ‘major failures’ in the past

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Beam, maker of the Magic Notes AI currently in 100+ LAs, admits that it could actually lead to MORE work and urges SWers to 'challenge the business case put forward by commissioners for using AI.' All while taking public £££ off the back of those business cases. www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Beam, maker of the Magic Notes AI transcription tool that's currently in over 100 LAs, admits that its tool could actually lead to MORE work for social workers. | Christian Kerr

Beam, maker of the Magic Notes AI transcription tool that's currently in over 100 LAs, admits that its tool could actually lead to MORE work for social workers. 'Speaking at BASW’s annual con...

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

'Frontline is a children’s charity. Everything we do aims to make life better for children at risk of harm.' thefrontline.org.uk/who-we-are/ Unless you're a child in Gaza- you don't count and it's fine to keep partnering with an org linked to war crimes against you. www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Some pretty damning stuff from FT's investigation into Boston Consulting Group's (founding partner of English 'children's charity' and provider of a fast track social work qualifyi...

Byline Festival @bylinefestival.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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Down The Rabbit Hole Of The Manosphere is just one of over 25 thought-provoking panels at Byline Festival 11-13 July Plus Comedy , Music, Art, Film & Workshops Full programme & tickets (going up soon) bylinefestival.com

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Very positive review of Teacher Education in Crisis: The State, the Market and the Universities in England which @joehanley.bsky.social and I have a chapter in: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole book available as a free to access e-book here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

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Teacher Education in Crisis: The State, the Market, and the Universities in England

Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

‘MEE asked BCG whether the firm was involved in the security operations to support Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [and] what role it had played with the foundation. BCG directed MEE to its statement from Thursday which did not answer the questions.’ www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-cia-...

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Ex-CIA officer running Gaza aid security advised Boston Consulting Group

Phil Reilly, who leads a private security company guarding food distribution sites in Gaza, was a senior advisor for US consultancy that has withdrawn from controversial aid project

Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Boston Consulting Group, key backer of @frontlinesw.bsky.social (Approach Social Work) complicit in war crimes. How long are we going to pretend involvement with BCG doesn’t reflect ill on the profession? Students and staff involved with the scheme need to find their voices on this.

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Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

‘I had seen the government’s AI-powered revolution first hand. And it was all hooey.’ Clueless ministers touting AI as the future of this country is a cause for concern and does not reassure that they have thought carefully about the implications of this policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK government embracing AI? I’m sorry, that’s nonsense and I can prove it | Chris Stokel-Walker

My freedom of information request revealed the inane use of ChatGPT by the tech secretary. Is this the future? I hope not, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker