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11 years ago
Chair of BASW
An interview with Guy Shennan the recently elected Chair of the British Association of Social Workers Then a short interview I gave on the situation in Birmingham concerning stress in social work and its impact on morale and service delivery Guy Shennan qualified as a social worker in having trained at the University of...
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11 years ago
JSWEConference Part 5
Three more great interviews from this year's JSWEConference Such a rich vein of content I hope you enjoy them Today's interviews include Juliet Koprowska Senior Lecturer in Social Work at York University talking about exploring the use of self revealed through examination of real social work encounters Sam Baeza from the University of Chichester whose...
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11 years ago
Ruth Smith Editor Community Care
RUTH SMITH is Editor and Content Director of Community Care the multi-award winning information service for social workers She is responsible for all content and digital products across Community Care from the news website communitycare co uk to the paid for information service Community Care Inform Children and Inform Adults Her expertise includes how to make information...
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11 years ago
Alan Wood President ADCS
An interview with Alan Wood President of the Association of Directors of Children's Services Currently DCS for Hackney and previously Chief Executive of the Learning Trust credited for taking education in Hackney from the worst in the country to a position of excellence in years He also caused a storm with quoted comments in...
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11 years ago
JSWE Conference Part 4
Three more interviews from the Joint Social Work Education Conference Firstly Clare Parkinson Lucille Allain and Helen Hingley-Jones exploring contemporary uses of baby and young child observation Secondly David McKendrick talking of a mixed method evaluation of Twitter chat designed to encourage connectivity and professional identity in new social work students Finally John Dow a service...
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11 years ago
JSWEC Conf Part 3
Three more excellent interviews from the Joint Social Work Education Conference at Royal Holloway University of London Firstly Tim Kelly Dean of Social Work and Community Education who Chaired the whole event talks of his vision of social work Then Amanda Taylor discusses the value she has found in social work book groups and...
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11 years ago
Influential abusers and Neglect.
This episode has two interviews I gave on topical child care subjects The first talks about the influence of Peter Righton a convicted abuser who was influential in changing systems of care for looked after children in the s and s There still could be much to discover about not only his behaviour but...
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11 years ago
JSWEC Conf. Part 2
The second of this series features John Devaney Director of Social Work Education at Queens University Belfast and his co-presenter John Carpenter Professor of Social Work from the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol John Devaney was years a social work practitioner and joined the University in He is also...
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11 years ago
JSWEC Conf. Part 1
The th UK Joint Social Work Education Conference and th UK Social Work Research Conference Royal Holloway University of London -- July...
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11 years ago
Parent Abuse Mirror or Mirage
Jane Evans trauma parenting specialist discusses the important issue of child to parent abuse ahead of Mirror or Mirage Is Adolescent to Parent Abuse a mirror image of Domestic Abuse or is this simply a mirage Are there cross-overs or contrasts between Parent Abuse and Domestic Abuse An exciting conference being held in Bristol on th...