Race- week 7

• Social Work
• Higher Education (degree)

Reading:

PDD Day

Research resources on anti-racist practice (Canvas).

E.g. Wayne Reid, BASW England’s Professional Officer, Social Worker and Anti-Racism Visionary shares his work on anti-racism in social work.

Complete a reflection on the key issues around racism and inequality, reflect on your own thoughts, feelings and behaviours as future SW practitioners, leaders and allies.

Think about it-

2 minutes by yourself-

1. What was your earliest/ first experience dealing with race and or/ racism?
2. Write this down and keep this to yourself for now. 
3. Jot down specific feelings that emerge/ resonate with you and thoughts you have.
   

Talk about it-

• In your small groups discuss your stories 
• Jot down feelings that emerge/ resonate with you 
• Send these words to our interactive class mind map via lesson up 

Functionalism- Race and Ethnicity

https://www.gov.uk/life-in-the-uk-test

Class Activity

1. In groups of 4 - look up the UNHCR website: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics
2. Identify the key differences and finding's since 2019
3. Create a poster
4.  Report these back to the class.

Changes to legal migration rules for family and work visas in 2024

On 4 December 2023 the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, announced future changes to visa rules in what he described as a “five-point plan” to reduce immigration.

The changes have now come into force, in accordance with two sets of revisions to the Immigration Rules released on 19 February and 14 March.

In groups...

1. Research the 5 key changes & why government decided to make these changes
2. Discuss the implications of this
3. Web page can be found https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9920/

(Quiz after)

Quiz

Group work - 10 mins

After watching the video discuss the following questions in your groups :

1. What may be some of the issues faced by unaccompanied asylum seeking children?
   
2. Can you relate this to social work roles?