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7 years ago
Claudia Megele Online Safety
The internet can be a dangerous place and protecting the vulnerable from those who prey on them is becoming more and more important Claudia is an expert on digital engagement and online safeguarding She is co-chair of the Principal Social Workers' national network She is a fellow of National Institute of Health Research NIHR and...
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7 years ago
'Don’t expect a survivor to tell you her experience of undergoing FGM'
Specialist social workers explain how they support women and girls affected by the practiceWhen social worker Sam Khalid not her real name first began working with women affected by female genital mutilation FGM she found there wasn't much awareness of the brutal practice in the UK She was in her first year at university in on a placement with a Women's Aid team The service I was placed in was just starting its FGM unit...
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7 years ago
Jenni Randall & her Looked After children project
A fantastic folk rock CD to raise funds for Looked After Children...
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7 years ago
Global Institute Social Work (GISW)
I'm very pleased to have been invited on to the International Advisory Board that Tiong Chairs and in this interview he lays out the vision and the opportunities for the GISW at its five year anniversary...
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7 years ago
DBS to operate from CRB and ISA offices
The CRB will still be merged with the Independent Safeguarding Authority ISA in Darlington to create the new Disclosure and Barring Service DSB in However it has been confirmed that the DSB will operate from both the existing sites rather than from just one -- as the Home Office had suggested in February The Continue reading DBS to operate from CRB and ISA offices...
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7 years ago
Chris Walters and various topics
GISW Glass and non prescription drugs...
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7 years ago
We want to attract the right people with the right values to social care | Caroline Dinenage
New government recruitment campaign will raise the image and profile of the sectorThis year we are celebrating the th anniversary of our amazing NHS but we must not forget that adult social care is also marking years The National Assistance Act that created many of the core elements of the modern social care system came into effect on the same day as the NHS act In the NHS's birthday month we have heard many stories...
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7 years ago
The UK project giving refugees another chance at childhood
Young refugees face unspeakable trauma to get here But a cross-charity initiative is helping them to rebuild their livesIt is hard to be an adult when you feel like you haven't had the chance to be a child This simple statement has stayed with me over the last months of working with young refugees and asylum seekers Among them a -year-old boy forced to sleep in a railway station for months and another who witnessed...
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7 years ago
UN: spend an extra £5tn by 2030 to tackle global 'care crisis'
Report highlights risk of rising inequality against women worldwideThe world economy faces a looming care crisis risking further division between men and women across the planet according to a UN report calling for governments and companies worldwide to spend at least an extra tn tn on care by Making the case for spending on support for children old people and the neediest in society to double by the end of the next decade the UN's...
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7 years ago
Theresa May got it wrong with her cash boost for the NHS. Here's why
Assessing what the health service needs is essential before giving it more money to meet demandFour key things were missing from Theresa May's announcement of extra money for the NHS There was no admission that there is an NHS crisis that needs tackling Or that money is needed now for both the the health service and social care Without this emergency cash injection there will be insufficient time and resource to make the necessary preparations...