Roseanna Freiburghaus is a Frontline fellow who runs a blog about child migration in Europe and is part of the Children's Social Work Collective - a group of fellows who have set up and launched a new advocacy group for social work in the UK...

International Social Work Volume Issue Page - March lt br gt This article engages with International Social Work education The subject is new and in many countries especially in India content for teaching has only begun to be formulated While many attempts are being made across the world to provide international social work with a sound theoretical base these efforts are only beginning to take shape in India This article traverses the thinking experience and...

I was six months into my first year on the Frontline programme when everything changed overnight We were suddenly in a national lockdown due to COVID- At first I was worried How were the children and families I was working with going to cope...

International Social Work Volume Issue Page - November lt br gt Global forced migration rates are the highest since World War II This article presents an overview of migration and presents an original argument as to the imperatives for social work First global trends are presented and forced migration is conceptualised as an international phenomenon Second global responses are explored with a focus on legal and protection frameworks Finally existing policy practice and research gaps...

International Social Work Volume Issue Page - March lt br gt At the end of the presence of social workers became mandatory in Brazilian state-funded elementary schools This brief note explores the challenges schools may have in translating the new legislation from paper to practice The goal is to frame and advance the discourse of school social work in Brazil Among other topics this note discusses the role of social workers in educational environments in...

International Social Work Volume Issue Page - May lt br gt Drawing on academic and government literature and the authors' professional experience in working with child sexual abuse CSA this article details the current issues in Pakistan within a global context of Asia This discussion addresses the context of CSA in Pakistan causes and incidence of CSA reporting of CSA lack of effective structures to protect children public education for CSA and finally discusses the...

My guest is Michael Hames again who I've known for years and whom I worked with on several initiatives and investigations starting when he was at Scotland Yard...

million regional fund for children's social care including funding to support unaccompanied minors...

Vicky Ford addresses the Association of Directors of Children's Services ADCS annual conference...

International Social Work Volume Issue Page - May lt br gt This work is based on a theoretical research study on Southern Feminisms and Social Intervention developed at the National University of Mar del Plata Argentina The South is understood as a metaphor for human suffering systematically caused by the oppression and domination of an imperialist capitalist colonial and patriarchal North It is a very powerful geo-corporate-political and epistemological metaphor because it reveals and problematises...