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Advance digital technologies and the disruption of the social – Book Project

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Editors are currently scoping the possibility of creating a book focusing on the challenges associated with the increasingly widespread use of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies in the welfare, social work and human services and society more generally. We are aware that the emerging transformative technologies and algorithmic governance and artificial technologies are introducing serious challenges for the future of these professions and their ability to remain relevant

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The legacy of Conservative rule for adult social care

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. Broadly, these were for significant investment in, and reform to , the sector to address issues including unmet need, workforce shortages and inadequate care.

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The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

The Guardian

Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London Soulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company We’re a long way from Annie. The Children’s Inquiry is a questing musical about kids in care – there are no moppet antics or life-changing benefactors. Instead, the pioneering theatre company Lung pursue the changing British care system over 150 years, exposing the heartbreakingly arbitrary way in which children’s fates can b

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