Fri.Apr 19, 2024

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CALL FOR EDUCATION COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE FOR IFSW-ASIA PACIFIC – VOLUNETEER POSITION

International Federation of Social Workers

IFSW Asia Pacific is looking for ONE Regional Representative to the IFSW Education Commission. This is a voluntary position.

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Of course a society that demonises poverty will try to prosecute vulnerable, unpaid carers | Zoe Williams

The Guardian

The scandal, revealed by the Guardian, didn’t occur in a vacuum. The right’s casting of the poor as parasitic benefits cheats underpins it all The unpaid carer’s allowance in this country is £81.90 a week. It’s hard to see what serious thought went into arriving at that figure – any calculation of how much it costs to live on, for instance, or how much an unpaid carer is saving the government.

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Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers

The Guardian

Poet says government has rejected some 2022 MacAlister recommendations because reforming system is not a vote winner UK politics – latest updates The poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay has accused ministers of ignoring “brilliant” recommendations to improve the “dysfunctional” children’s social care system in England because they are not vote winners.