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FYI - please pass to any colleagues (from any discipline), students, or service users you may think will be interested, Kind regards, Barbara ________________________________ From: Social Work Action Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 23 December 2010 08:11 Subject: Subject: SWAN Conference 2011: Flyer attached and booking now open Dear SWAN member/colleague, Please find attached the flyer for the Social Work Action Network's next annual conference in April 2011. This event will aim to reflect the growing movement against the ConDem coalition's austerity measures which has been transformed in recent weeks by the student rebellion against fees and education cuts. The conference will have the key theme of building alliances in the struggle to defend social and youth work services and challenge cuts to the welfare state and benefits. The conference, organised in collaboration with In Defence of Youth Work, will bring together social workers, youth and community practitioners, service users, students and educators to share experiences of this struggle and help to build and broaden the movement against austerity. The flyer contains information about the conference programme and speakers and how to book for the event. Speakers include Professor Sue White (critic of social work targets), Bob Williams-Findlay (Disabled People Against Cuts) and many others. Further details are available on the SWAN website:http://www.socialworkfuture.org/ <https://owa.bham.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=08d42cdf0a14446a84277fcb06d5557 c&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.socialworkfuture.org%2f> <https://owa.bham.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=08d42cdf0a14446a84277fcb06d5557 c&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.socialworkfuture.org%2f> We would also like to invite people to submit proposals for seminars and workshops at the conference which reflect their experiences of the campaigns and movement against austerity as well as other related topics. We have attached the call for workshops and seminars which includes details of how to submit your proposal. We are particularly keen to encourage presentations from those in practice, people who use services, carers and students. Please feel free to circulate both these documents as widely as possible. The next meeting of West Midlands SWAN will take place on Tuesday 11th January at 630pm seating area outside Room 714, 7th Floor Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham. All welcome. We hope you have an enjoyable festive break. In solidarity, Social Work Action Network ___________________________________ The Community Psychology List has a new website/blog at: http://www.communitypsychology.co.uk/ There is a threaded discussion forum: http://www.communitypsychology.co.uk/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi There is a twitter feed: http://twitter.com/CommPsychUK To post on the website blog, forum or twitter feed, contact Grant or David at the email addresses below. David Fryer ([log in to unmask]) or Grant Jeffrey ([log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK