Dr. Nayyara Tabassum is Evidence Officer in the Centre for Ageing Better. (828 words) In the UK, as soon as the lockdown was announced by Boris Johnson in his televised address on 23 March 2020, one of the first things ? Continue reading ?
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Dr. Nayyara Tabassum is Evidence Officer in the Centre for Ageing Better. (828 words) In the UK, as soon as the lockdown was announced by Boris Johnson in his televised address on 23 March 2020, one of the first things ? Continue reading ?
In this post, Stan Burridge, Director of Expert Focus (a user-led consultancy), reports on how COVID-19 is impacting on workers who support people leaving prison to find accommodation and resettle in the community. He speaks to two workers from the Cumbria ? Continue reading ?
In this post, Stan Burridge, Director of Expert Focus (a user-led consultancy), reports on how COVID-19 is impacting on workers who support people leaving prison to find accommodation and resettle in the community. He speaks to two workers from the Cumbria ? Continue reading ?
Families are often reluctant to engage with social workers, but there seems to be a shift towards families valuing their social worker more.
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Memories from World War 2 Welcome back to all. After six years non stop , I took a breather. Now it feels right to restart and expand and I hope you?ll be pleased with the result. This is the first in the new series of podcasts that will be more of a magazine format [?]
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Doncaster Children’s Services Trust is calling for experienced social workers to support its ongoing response to provide vitals support for our children, young people and families across the borough.
The Trust are seeking committed individuals to help them continue their journey to ‘outstanding’ as they work with vulnerable people who need a little bit of extra support.
Julie Mepham, Director of Children's Social Work at the Trust says: “We are loo...
Challenging times force us to look beyond our usual ways of working. The pandemic is pushing us towards more collaboration and more creativity.
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Dr Bernadette Moorhead is Lecturer in Social Work and Human Services at the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia. This is the first in a series of dispatches from the academic social work community ? Continue reading ?
Having trained as a children and families social worker, I quickly learned that the key [?]
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Dr Carl Purcell, NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King?s College London. His book, The Politics of Children?s Services Reform: Re-examining Two Decades of Policy Change, is just out. (849 words) As we emerge from the current crisis, ? Continue reading ?