Carl Purcell, co-author of 'Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools', discusses the impact on schools of the tension between safeguarding and educational responsibilities, amid contradictory policies imposed on them.…Read more

The consequences of the Roe v Wade reversal are devastating. The victory of the pro-life lobby means women will die. Judith Orr elaborates why we shouldn’t be complacent even in the UK where abortion rights have majority support. …Read more

“The mad yellow book” gives a voice through a graphic novel to the marginalised working-class experience. Lisa McKenzie of Working Class Collective reflects on how The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class brought people together, through the solidarity it created virtually. …Read more

The study of the global political economy is the understanding of recurrent and periodic crises and is now perhaps more important as a discipline than ever. Phoebe Moore and Mònica Clua-Losada launch our newest journal, Global Political Economy and explain its relevance and raison d’être.…Read more

Dan McQuillan looks at the dangerous capacity of AI to criminalise women in the wake of Roe vs Wade and calls for ways of coming together that invert algorithmic exclusion via mutual aid and solidarity.…Read more

Gary Craig, co-editor of The Modern Slavery Agenda, looks at how Mo Farah revealing his story now has raised public consciousness about slavery.…Read more

Space for relational and community-based support are limited by the dominance of market-oriented, computer-based tasks, medication and risk-focused interventions. Rich Moth looks at how neoliberal reorganisation of services has actually taken community mental health practice in the opposite direction.  …Read more

Launching their book ‘Social Work with the Black African Diaspora’, Paul Michael Garrett and Washington Marovatsanga call for more expansive and less Eurocentric ways of perceiving the social work task.…Read more

Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more

The Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People talk about their new survey, why they are running it, and how the previous survey helped shape Greater Manchester's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…Read more