At the launch of Anne Longfield Young Lives Big Ambitions. Listen to next month's podcast for more.

Thrilled to be shortlisted in this year's BASW social work journalism awards for my investigation into the use of the 'golden hellos' by local authorities to attract social workers. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted too 🎉

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for the wonderful BASW #SWJournalismAwards24. In particular, my colleagues Anastasia Koutsounia ComCareSharmeen and Joanna Silman and Fiona Simpson from our sister publication Children & Young People Now . For a flavour of why they've been nominated see this 🧵

Really enjoyed doing this month's Children & Young People Now podcast to talk about attending the launches of Anne Longfield's book Young Lives Big Ambitions and #FreeLoavesonFriday edited by Rebekah Pierre cypnow.co.uk/podcast

BREAKING NEWS: Newham Council become 92nd in UK to Treat Care Experience as a Protected Characteristics Full list of councils; Cumberland Council Westmorland and Furness Ashfield District Council Manchester Redcar and Cleveland Southend on Sea Borough Council Edinburgh Wigan

Privileged to chair this very important panel today alongside stellacreasy Ellen Broomé Lucy Rigby KC MP and Kiran Mahil #PBC2024

⭐️ It's almost time for our #BASWConf24 evening event - the second annual Social Work Journalism Awards! 🤞 Good luck to all our finalists across our eight categories. 🧵 Keep an eye on the thread below where we'll be announcing all our 2024 winners! #SWJournalismAwards24

Best of luck to everyone shortlisted! Particularly my Community Care colleagues 🤞🤞

Great piece by Amrit Virdi on why party manifestos need a greater focus on health visiting to support young children. This has been called for by NSPCC and iHV cypnow.co.uk/news/article/s…

AS: Earlier this year, #ADCS24 published a paper called Childhood Matters, it is an urgent call to arms to put children and families at the heart of all national policy decisions... I shared these statistics back in April and I’m doing so again as quite frankly, they are shameful

🗣️ The lovely ‘One Day’ video delegates at #ADCS24 watched now is available via this link marketingderby.co.uk/news/youngster…

Rebekah Pierre .Rebekah Pierre gets a laugh when asked what her message to new gov would be. 'Please practice what you preach.. the last gov saw 10 ministers in 10 years, yet they kept preaching about social work workforce stability' #ADCS24

I'm back for Day 2 with really interesting discussions on contextual safeguarding #ADCS24

#ADCS24 over and out - a really great and insightful conference with more coverage coming your way in the coming weeks. Thanks @adcs