Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

turning a global crisis into a global opportunity – Linked on our blogs with A great way to kick off 2011 for the Robin Hood Tax, and later with Sign petition for the Robin Hood Tax.

• It’s simple: the financial crisis and the recession have left a massive hole in the UK’s public finances. Jobs and public services are at risk in the UK while many other developed and developing countries face a similar struggle.
• But there is another way. Thousands of Robin Hood supporters believe that banks, hedge funds and the rest of the financial sector should pay their fair share to clear up the mess they helped create. (Why we need Robin and links to topics).

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You need to know; Policy Library; Progress; Media; Latest; Get involved; Accessibility; Resources; Spread the word; Latest; Supporters; The Coalition; Around the world;
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How it works – the big idea: In a nutshell, the big idea behind the Robin Hood Tax is to generate billions of pounds – hopefully even hundreds of billions of pounds. That money will fight poverty in the UK and overseas. It will tackle climate change. And it will come from fairer taxation of the financial sector.   Continuer la lecture de « Robin Hood Tax »

Linked with Social Care online.

… The Social Care Institute for Excellence’s (SCIE) mission is to identify and spread knowledge about good practice to the large and diverse social care workforce and support the delivery of transformed, personalised social care services. We aim to reach and influence practitioners, managers and the sector leadership who have responsibility for service delivery in adults’ and children’s services. We recognise the central role of people who use services, children, young people, their families and their carers, and we aim to ensure their experience and expertise is reflected in all aspects of our work … (about 1/2).

Homepage; http://www.scie.org.uk/index.asp

Key resources: SC TV; Social Care Online; e-Learning; Good Practice Framework;
Adults; Families, Children; Workforce; Knowledge, Research; Tools, Gateways; Publications; Newsletters; News; Events; Help;
Address: Social Care Institute for Excellence, Goldings House, 2 Hay’s Lane, London SE1 2HB, UK;
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About 2/2 … /Our Role: SCIE is an independent charity, funded by the Department of Health and the devolved administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland.  Continuer la lecture de « Social Care Institute for Excellence SCIE »

Linked on this blog with In Defence of Youth Work.

Friday 15th April to Saturday 16th April 2011 – SWAN National Conference 2011, themes, programme and speakers:

• SWAN will hold its next annual conference in Birmingham (Avon Rooms, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham) … The theme of the conference will be building alliances in the struggle to defend services and challenge austerity measures … (details and updated speakers).
• Registration/Booking.
• Download the leaflet for the conference.
• SWAN National Conference 2011 in collaboration with In Defence of Youth Work.

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SWAN Organisation /Manifesto – 1. Social Work Today: Social work in Britain today has lost direction. This is not new. Many have talked about social work being in crisis for over thirty years now. Continuer la lecture de « Social Work Action Network SWAN »