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Homecare: A Community Engagement Event

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Venue: External

No booking required

Invited speakers: Professor Sondra Cuban (Western Washington University, BIH Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College) and Dr Lydia Hayes (Cardiff University)


Panel: Liam ODonohue (Unison), Sarah James (Cabinet member for Adults & Health, Haringey Council), Amy Hulme (Living Wage Foundation), Bob Padron (Penrose Care), Mohammed Gbadamosi (NACAS), Ingrid Koehler (LGiU), Sondra Cuban and Lydia Hayes

This community engagement event focussed upon ‘homecare’, will discuss what quality homecare provision might look like and what the challenges associated with achieving this are. Two think pieces will be presented by the invited speakers to start the discussion. This will be followed by a panel of community representatives including homecare workers, Councillor Sarah James (Haringey), a Unison rep, a Homecare Agency manager, Amy Hulme from the Living Wage Foundation and Ingrid Koehler, LGiU, and a Q&A session with the audience.

 THIS EVENT IS FREE TO ATTEND - PLEASE REGISTER HERE

Sondra Cuban is an educational sociologist with an interest in immigration and education. She has worked in a range of educational settings including jails, libraries, community colleges, and non-profits, and with disenfranchised groups and non-traditional students. Her 2013 publication, Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry focused on immigrant women caregivers in England and their aspirations, trajectories, and mobilities. More recent scholarship in in the U.S. has focused on the nexus of economic justice and migrancy with Washington State. This work is featured in her 2017 book, Transnational Family Communication: Immigrants and ICTs and the film, Her Room by the Kitchen .

Lydia Hayes is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, Co-director of the Law & Gender Research Group and Co-director LAWLAB Research Centre. Lydia's research is about women, work and law. She is currently writing about gender based violence in care and also about racism in the organisation of care work in the UK. Recent publications include:. Restricting minimum wage protection on social care ‘sleep in’ shifts and Stories of care: a labour of law. Gender and class at work.

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