by David Niven | Jan 15, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Media, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
Gary Glitter, Jonathan King, Jimmy Savile, Stewart Hall were all convicted of child abuse. Bill Roache, Dave Lee Travis and Rolf Harris are all on trial for alleged abuse. Freddie Starr was rearrested today with allegations of sex abuse. I started thinking about all...
by David Niven | Jan 14, 2014 | Child Abuse, Media, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
Changing the image of social work I was interviewed on BBC radio about a social worker in Swindon who had been struck off for falsifying records and failing to act when a young girl with learning difficulties disclosed abuse. It wasn’t the bad practice...
by David Niven | Jan 3, 2014 | Media, Media Training, Social Work, Training
BASW Media Training With the recent media training I delivered to the new professional officers at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) it made me think again about how important it is to hear the voices of social workers in the UK. There’s so...
by David Niven | Dec 17, 2013 | Media, Media Training, Social Media, Training
Courses in Bristol, March and April 2014 I’m very excited to be offering media training at David Niven Associates. I just thought that after having years of continuing experience of being interviewed on television, radio and social media and running a training...
by David Niven | Dec 9, 2013 | Media, Social Work
Using the media I know I’m always talking about the media and its importance, but we can’t avoid addressing the issue of blame in the training that we offer at David Niven Associates. There seems to be a national obsession with all forms of the media focussing on...
by David Niven | Dec 5, 2013 | Media, Podcasts, Social Work
Being Interviewed on Radio Today’s Social World Podcast includes two radio clips from interviews I gave during the week gone by. Celebrity abusers and then— Reflections on a tragic case. For the second part of the podcast, I talk about routes into social work...
