Archive for October 2024

Members of the Quality Hill Tenant Union launched a rent strike on Oct. 1.

Opening the ceremony at the Tullyglass House Hotel, Ballymena, Patricia Higgins, chief executive, Northern Ireland Social Care Council, said: “I’ve been very proud today to celebrate the hard work, dedication and achievement of our social workers.

The introduction of Progress comes after Frontline’s Pathways programme was scrapped in April after DfE stopped funding the scheme, which launched in 2022, two years earlier than expected. Frontline’s chief executive Mary Jackson announced the end of the leadership scheme at a meeting of the Education Select Committee.

The headquarters of the central Post Office in Naples, located in Piazza Matteotti, has been occupied by social workers from Gesco who displayed a banner reading “Welfare is not a luxury.”

The City of Airdrie has released its 2024 Houselessness Estimation Study…. The top three reasons cited for housing insecurity were high housing costs (rent/mortgage exceeding income), health challenges (including illness, mental health concerns, and physical disabilities), and low vacancy rates, with an estimated one per cent of rental units available in Airdrie.

Unicef and the Malaysian Association of Social Workers (MASW) called for the urgent passage of the long-awaited Social Work Profession Bill to address the critical shortage of trained social workers in Malaysia, particularly for the country’s most vulnerable communities.