045 Tessa Munt MP
A strong supporter of social work and a survivor of abuse, she talks of her commitment to protecting the vulnerable and disadvantaged in our communities.
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040 JSWEC Part 6 Social Media
JSWEConference Thoughts of newly qualified workers and social media in social work education
read more044 Chair of BASW
An interview with Guy Shennan, the recently elected Chair of the British Association of Social Workers. Then, a short interview I...
read more043 Ruth Smith Editor Communit...
RUTH SMITH is Editor and Content Director of Community Care, the multi-award winning information service for social workers. She is...
read more042 Alan Wood President ADCS
An interview with Alan Wood, President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. Currently DCS for Hackney and...
read more040 JSWE Conference Part 4
Three more interviews from the Joint Social Work Education Conference. Firstly Clare Parkinson,Lucille Allain and Helen Hingley-Jones...
read more040 JSWEC Conf Part 3
Three more excellent interviews from the Joint Social Work Education Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London. Firstly, Tim...
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The 16th UK Joint Social Work Education Conference and 8th UK Social Work Research Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 23–25 July 2014.
read more038 Academic Analysis of Socia...
Kieran is a media linguist and communication consultant. His PhD research explored the language of media interviews and he is now...
read more037 Professional Officer in En...
Professional Officer for the British Association of Social Workers, Nushra, gives an excellent interview/discussion. We talk about...
read moreSocial workers in the media...
Kieran File (PhD) is a Media linguist, Managing director and trainer at Reactive Sports Media and Associate media trainer at David...
read more036 Working with Children in C...
Practical discussion with Jenni Randall and David Akinsanya, providing advice for front line staff and students. Jenni was awarded...
read more035 Social Work in the Media &...
TV and Radio interviews reflecting child protection cases. I often get approached to give these in response to negative stories as...
read more034 President of Russian Union...
Antonina Dashkina, President of Russian Union of Social Workers and Social Pedagogues, Vice President of INGO Conference, Council of...
read moreThe social work in the media s...
For a long time now I’ve had particular opinions about how social work and the media react together. I’ve heard plenty of...
read more033 BASW UK Conference and AGM
I attended the BASW UK conference and AGM and spoke at a workshop entitled ’embracing a media we love to hate’. It was an...
read more032 The work of the NSPCC
This Podcast features Jon Brown as my guest. We talk of developments in child protection, the work of the NSPCC and the future...
read more030 Reflecting on important is...
I highlight the future interviews scheduled for the programme including Dame Tessa Jowell. – Privatising child protection...
read more029 The Global Agenda for Soci...
David Jones talks about the origins of The Global Agenda for Social Work and the work it is completing during our interview. A common...
read more027 Media Representation &...
I’ve included an interview from The Media Show on the BBC for you. We discuss adoption and surrounding topics as well as, in my...
read moreChild Sex Offenders as Terrori...
I remember in 1997 standing in Scotland Yard with the then head of the Paedophile Unit watching the arrival of a large furniture van...
read moreAdoption and social work on te...
The television company True Vision that made Channel 4’s ‘15,000 Kids and Counting’ told me this morning that...
read moreTechnology in Social Work Prac...
Guest Blog by Deona Hooper I’d like to introduce Deona’s blog. I’ve guested several times myself on other...
read moreThe representation of social w...
As somebody that is always talking abut the importance of the representation of social work in the media, in whatever form the media...
read moreDigital Age of Social Work
Compass Jobs Fair I’ll be speaking on the 19th March in Birmingham at the Compass Jobs Fair following ‘World...
read moreHow can social work get better...
Today’s Guardian article in the social care network slot does echo so many things that I’ve been saying over the last...
read moreMissing Children Services
A shocking statistic in this country, and for that matter many many other countries, is the number of children who go missing every...
read morePublic Child Protection Debate
I was part of a child protection panel today on an online forum organised by The Guardian. I shouldn’t have been surprised but...
read moreCelebrity Abusers
Gary Glitter, Jonathan King, Jimmy Savile, Stewart Hall were all convicted of child abuse. Bill Roache, Dave Lee Travis and Rolf...
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