The British Association of Social Workers welcomed AI systems that free up time for face-to-face work, but said they “must never replace relationship-based social work practice and decision-making”. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/28/social-workers-england-ai-system-magic-notes

Interesting data roles in non-profits for this week has already landed in hundreds of inboxes. If yours is not one of them you can read it here https://buttondown.com/likeaword/archive/interesting-data-roles-in-non-profits-2024-09-29/

Artificial intelligence case studies: Good practice by local authorities | EHRC https://equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/artificial-intelligence-case-studies-good-practice-local-authorities

CDDO adds analytics engineer and machine learning engineer roles to its capability framework https://cddo.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/18/how-were-continuously-improving-the-digital-and-data-capability-framework/

Introducing the Government Data Quality Community https://www.gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-government-data-quality-community#localgov

For Tenants, AI-Powered Screening Can Be a New Barrier to Housing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-11/ai-powered-tenant-screening-tech-worries-fair-housing-advocates

MHCLG insights on scaling data standards in local government https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/03/setting-the-foundations-for-effective-data-use-in-local-government/

This week's selection of nonprofit datajobs is out https://buff.ly/3ZycXXm

11 nonprofit data jobs (and one other data job) this week. Mostly for looking for analyst or engineer type skills https://buff.ly/47uPsQH

As a fairly new convert to houseplants the appearance of new shoots on an umbrella plant really delights me