by David Niven | Apr 23, 2014 | Children, Media, Social Media, Social Work
The television company True Vision that made Channel 4’s ‘15,000 Kids and Counting’ told me this morning that following the three one hour programmes they made on adoption – that took them 2 years – a huge increase of people contacted the...
by David Niven | Apr 22, 2014 | Social Work
More questions arise about the shake up in the family justice system. Firstly, there’s a good idea emerging that hopefully will reduce both time and tensions when divorcing couples go to court. On the good side, there has been advice to test a European style...
by David Niven | Apr 14, 2014 | Media, Social Media, Social Work, Uncategorized
Guest Blog by Deona Hooper I’d like to introduce Deona’s blog. I’ve guested several times myself on other blogs and I know it’s good to hear different opinions from time to time, even if they are like minded. I have regular guests on the...
by David Niven | Apr 10, 2014 | Children, Children & Social Care, Podcasts, Social Work
Initially I debate the current topic in the UK – should social services, especially child protection, be moved to the private sector? Julian Le Grand has created a storm by saying that services are inadequate and this would be drastically improved by...
by David Niven | Apr 7, 2014 | International, Media, Media Training, Social Media, Social Work
As somebody that is always talking abut the importance of the representation of social work in the media, in whatever form the media comes in, I was very encouraged to see the social media feedback documented in the online version of Community Care Magazine –...
by David Niven | Mar 26, 2014 | Bristol, Mental Health, Social Work, Training
Supervision I want to revisit a subject that unashamedly I’ve talked about quite a bit in the past. Good anecdotal evidence from across the country points to the fact that, for a number of reasons, supervision is not well practiced in social work and...
