Sun.Feb 16, 2025

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Catalysts for Change: Racial Equity in Social Work Education

N.A.H

In this clip, I talk with my good friend and fellow Macro Social Worker and Equity Advocate Surabhi Pandit about how our activism organizing dialogues on race and equity as graduate students at The University of Michigan School of Social Work contributed to her Social Justice Origin Story. It all started with an incident where a class discussion exposed unexamined underlying racial biases and prompted a group of Black students to initiate broader, organized dialogues to address the issues.

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Social workers to sit on panels considering assisted dying requests under amendment to bill

Community Care

Social workers would sit on three-person panels set up to review adults’ requests for assisted dying under a proposed amendment to the bill to legalise the practice. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, sponsor of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, has proposed that the panels – which would also comprise a psychiatrist and a senior lawyer – should consider requests for an assisted death that had been already signed off by two doctors.

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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris

The Guardian

My dads journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: well be lost if they succeed in sending them home One bitter absurdity now sits at the heart of British life. It centres on the NHS, our strained systems of social care and an ever-more toxic and hateful conversation about immigration. Without hundreds of thousands of people who have come to the UK from abroad, the most basic aspects of how we look after old, infirm and ill people would simply colla