Ian Thomas

Social Worker. Author. Recovering Addict. TEDx Speaker. Care Experienced. A man on a mission to evoke a compassionate response to human suffering.

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

Feeling very proud and grateful to Graduate with a First Class Honours in Social Work 🙏🏼👨‍🎓 A huge thank you @BCUSocialWork for a dedicated teaching team producing world class social work education.

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

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[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

I'm excited to share Part 2 of #lifeafterprisonpodcast- How I got Clean in Prison... Here I discuss my awakening and slowly finding my humanity ✨️🌎❤️
Also, I'll drop a link in the chat to the Research I ref with @DrJustinRogers 📖

https://t.co/OOaPFuUcZH

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

Loved being part of the Life After Prison podcast, check out the first episode of two! Massive shout out to Jules & Zak for their engagement and ability to hold a safe space for people to share to those that care ✨️❤️🤲🏽
https://t.co/CPyf39juio

[Rees Foundation @ReesFoundation]

‘A great day presenting our latest research to the Children & Young People Research group @ Open University. Currently heading up on a new publication that explores Men and Loss, with a key focus on Suicides of Care Experienced People in Custody.' @Ianpresents @DrJustinRogers

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

The Constitution is a monolithic imagined reality, developed in 1778. Has our insights to human life not evolved? In my view America have snookered their own evolution on this one.
BBC News - Supreme Court ruling US gun rights
https://t.co/pN4ooD6Pd4

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

A great day presenting our latest research to the C&YP Research group at the @OpenUniversity with @DrJustinRogers This work is gaining traction and interest from key steak holders, what an honour... Big thanks to @ReesFoundation for their support 🙏

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

The government: We want a high-wage economy.

Also the government: Don't ask for a higher wage.

[LBC @LBC]

'Do you want me to carry on? I can carry on.'

This Shelagh Fogarty caller slams a previous caller for being appalled by strike action by rail workers.

@ShelaghFogarty

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

Love the positive messages walking up the steps to this Train Station 🚉

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud" 🌈 🌤

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

After a full day in the office yesterday, I stepped into my back garden for some fresh air...
#digitalnomad #vanlife

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

I have come away for a personal writing retreat, I wanted to start my day early and enjoy the morning Sun ☀️
Not bad office space eh? 😄
#digitalnomadlife

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

I often think about this, so apt! 👌🏽

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

What doesn’t kill you will likely

•dysregulate your nervous system
•trap itself in your body
•steal your spirit + your will
•kill the hope inside you

I don’t know what “makes you stronger” means, but

let’s STOP glorifying trauma as a life lesson we’ve been blessed with.

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

If qualifications were formally handed out from the ‘university of life’ those with lived experience would graduate with masters and doctorates! 🎓🧬

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

Taking a Wedding or Funeral service I try to represent the people I am serving. More unorthodox, more memorable. The weekends wedding required me to be somewhat, theatrical in my role as celebrant...
"By the Power you have invested in me I pronounce you......." 🦸‍♂️💘😲👏

[Richard Devine @RichardDevineSW]

Most the research on parents experience of child protection;
Social Workers need to be less suspicious, kinder, more compassionate & better at listening.

Every SCR;
Social Workers need to be more scrupulous in investigation, suspicious, less trustful of what parents say.

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

It hurts to think that people might love me. It also hurts to thank that they don't.
For me, this can be the dichotomy of #Trauma

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

**So PROUD** Of #WOLVERHAMPTON LA Children services- #ofsted inspection speaks very positively of PA'S supporting #careleavers with an #Outstanding Category for #socialworkPractice 👇 ✊🏼 👏 Great contributions by #alwayshHope Project by #innovationunit
https://t.co/tsm5E8qEmr

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

#prisonreform is evolving and I'm honoured to part of this work with @tassieghilani for #careexperienced people in custody. Today's feedback says it all...
"Such an uplifting and thought-provoking training, definitely one of the best I have been to on TEAMS."
#insights22 #hmps22

[Ian Thomas @Ianpresents]

Do you work or study in the #Criminal #Justice System? I'm presenting with Tassie Ghilani- Criminal Justice Policy Advisor. At the #Insights22 to discuss Cohesive Care for Care Experienced People and Custodial settings.

[Rees Foundation @ReesFoundation]

Our event at the HMP Festival, Insight22, is running on the 20th May. It's called ‘Cohesive Care for Care Experienced People and Custodial Staff’ - if you'd like to attend, head to https://t.co/uVJfMRnigo #Insights22 @hmppsinsights