This situation - shortage of Health & Social Care Professionals, including #SocialWorkers and resulting lengthy waiting lists - is having significant and enduring negative impact on those awaiting essential services: irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…@IASW_IRL
How can social work strengthen intergenerational solidarity? Join our free webinar on Tue, 18 March (1:00-2:00 PM) to explore this year’s #WSWD2025 theme with expert speakers.
Don’t miss it—register today! 🖥️➡️ bit.ly/3EsJt4o@sarahmdonnelly1@IFSW@IASW_IRL
“School makes me feel slow”
This @thejournal_ie investigates article delves into the usage of reduced timetables and their disproportionate impact on #Traveller and Roma children and children with specific educational needs.
thejournal.ie/investigates-i… 1/
Our new travelling exhibition is looking for community venues willing to host us for a few days or more.
During the exhibition, we can facilitate creative workshops & discussions around the theme of inclusion and the barriers people face
#LeaveNoOneBehindatdireland.ie/wp/leave-no-be…
We are delighted to launch our new Strategy Statement this morning, where we outline our 5 new Strategic Priorities for the next 3 years.
The Strategy is also available in a number of accessible versions:
Easy to Read
Braille
ISL
Find out more: ihrec.ie/about/strategy-stat…
ALT 3 versions of IHREC Strategy Statement, including Easy to Read and Braille
Join @IASW_IRL for a special World Social Work Day webinar on 18 March! 📅
Expect inspiring talks from @sarahmdonnelly1 & Valerie O Brien on kinship care, intergenerational solidarity & sustainable societies. #WSWD2025#SocialWork
Register for Free!➡️bit.ly/3EsJt4o
Parents of children with special needs have to 'jump through hoops' to access basic supports and services, the deputy leader of the Social Democrats has said
rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/022…
FLAC STATEMENT: Urgent Law Reform is needed to give effect to the Recommendations of European Human Rights Commissioner on Traveller Accommodation and Evictions.
The recommendations align with calls from FLAC for meaningful legal changes. @eilis_barryflac.ie/news/2025/02/26/urge…
‘Inaction or silence by Health Professional Associations in the face of the documented targeting of the health system and the civilians of Gaza must be read as complicity’. Irish Healthcare workers for Palestine's paper published in Journal of critical Study of communication and Disabilty today
criticalstudycommunicationdi…
‘Inaction or silence by Health Professional Associations in the face of the documented targeting of the health system and the civilians of Gaza must be read as complicity’. Irish Healthcare workers for Palestine's paper published in Journal of critical Study of communication and Disabilty today
criticalstudycommunicationdi…
A final reminder that a book launch event for 'Critical theory for Social Work' is happening this week. This in-person event will take place in the space outside the TRiSS Seminar Room in the Arts building at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday from 5-7.
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Book Launch Update
Delighted to announce, my latest book 'Critical Theory for Social Work' will be officially launched by Professor of Social Work at Trinity College Dublin, Dr Stephanie Holt, & Adjunct Professor & CEO of the Irish Association of Social Workers, Vivian Geiran.
If you have some time, please do read the article below, from the Irish Foster Care Association Journal, 2021 issue of ‘Foster’, titled “Through the eyes of a child – my first hand experience of the foster-care system through the lens of ‘dual culturalism” 1/
Applications are now open for workshop presentation proposals for the joint BASW NI & @IASW_IRL conference, 'Social work & migration: promoting social justice, sustainability & human rights'.
Find out more & download a presentation proposal template at basw.co.uk/policy-and-practi…
ALT AI generated image in the style of an oil painting depicting figures walking along a road in a sandy environment beside a body of water overlaid with the text “Social Work and Migration: promoting social justice, sustainability and human rights
All day conference
Thursday 20 November 2025
Fairways Hotel, Dundalk
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS”
The image is also overlaid with a dark blue rectangle fading to opacity and the BASW NI and IASW logos.
I was incredibly delighted to be present to bear witness to todays’ event in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, which officially launched the Limerick Traveller Network’s “Traveller Education Change” project report. 1/
There’s still time to secure your place at the upcoming @IASW_IRL Anti-Racism Advisory Group conference! I’m really excited to be speaking at the Jan 24th conference alongside two impressive #SocialWork leaders, Diane Ihirwe and Karima Abbes 1/
I am delighted to announce a book launch for 'Critical Theory for Social Work'. This event will take place at Trinity College Dublin. Limited discounted books will be available. Light refreshments will be served.
Details at the link below.
eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-…@Eventbrite
Delighted to contribute some thoughts on Ecosocial Policy to this episode of the Social Work Education Podcast. An interesting discussion in good company. See link below:
@EASSW@SWSP_TCD@IASW_IRLopen.spotify.com/episode/5rH…