Social work news
CSWM news
2 days ago
Step Up to Social Work: 2023 Application deadline extended
The deadline for the popular fast-track social work course has been extended to 3rd April
External news
1 week ago
Abstracts (French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)
International Social Work Volume Issue Page - March lt br gt...
External news
1 week ago
News from our societies: ICSW: A decade of global activities on social protection floors
International Social Work Volume Issue Page - March lt br gt...
External news
1 week ago
Five pillars of well-being for social work in times of local and global challenges
International Social Work Volume Issue Page - March lt br gt...
CSWM news
1 week ago
Wakefield Social Worker Recruitment Day (Children & Young People's Service)
If you're considering permanent work, then turn up to Wakefield's DROP-IN recruitment day
External news
2 weeks ago
‘Everybody needs to be on board’: Individual and organisational youth worker experiences of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training and implementation in a multi-cultural Singaporean context
International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Despite growing knowledge of intervention outcomes associated with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy practitioner-centred processes of training and implementation especially involving social workers of the same organisation in a non-Western Asian setting remain research gaps Over year using in-depth qualitative interviews with Singaporean youth workers to understand individual and organisational experiences of training and implementation findings indicated that chronologically and cumulatively the combination of a formative training experience...
External news
2 weeks ago
Government pushes ahead with rollout of SEND social work lead role
The government will strongly encourage councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability SEND provision it said today It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers DSCOs in its improvement plan for SEND...
External news
2 weeks ago
Councils no longer getting additional payments for taking asylum-seeking children from hotels
The Home Office has ended a scheme to give councils additional payments to incentivise them to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from hotels on its scheduled date As of today authorities will no longer receive for each child they...
External news
3 weeks ago
A good casework relationship and Buddhist philosophy
International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Thus far casework practice has been based solely on reason In this article we propose that to form a good casework relationship between worker and client it is important to adopt a mental state that goes beyond reason This refers to a state of mind wherein the workers themselves abandon their attachment to the 'self' obsession with the self...