by David Niven | Dec 2, 2013 | Children & Social Care, Media, Mental Health, Social Work
Media portrayal of social work I’ve given media interviews today on both the radio and Sky News about an Italian woman who had her baby removed by caesarean section whilst detained under the Mental Health Act, authorized by the Court of Protection. The back...
by David Niven | Nov 29, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
Who are the excluded and the invisible in our country? Not long ago walking in Bath I came across the excluded and invisible in the course of one day when all the stories and scenes I saw were full of damaged or despairing people. In the morning I was the guest on a...
by David Niven | Oct 16, 2013 | Mental Health
In this day and age when we are fully aware that 1 in every 4 in this country will suffer from some sort of mental illness, we hear today that our mental health services are unsafe and at crisis point. With people being forced to travel hundreds of miles in some cases...
by David Niven | Oct 14, 2013 | Children, Children & Social Care, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
I’d like to talk a little bit about the needs of disabled children who have, of course, exactly the same human rights to be safe from neglect and abuse and be protected from harm in the same way as their non disabled peers. We know that research has shown that...
