by David Niven | Oct 31, 2013 | Media, Social Media, Social Work, Training
“For a newly qualified social worker the landscape they’ve qualified into could not be more challenging” What does the world hold for a Newly Qualified Social Worker? Especially with the reputation that much of the media has accredited to the...
by David Niven | Oct 18, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Training
Child Exploitation and Child Trafficking Listening to the counter child trafficking global online conference http://counterchildtrafficking.org/ that’s on it’s last day today has made me think of some of the acute challenges and terrible situations...
by David Niven | Oct 7, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work, Training
Children in court The judicial system in this country is in serious need of an overhaul, especially where children are the witnesses. The NSPCC published research to show that last year in England and Wales there were 23,000 reported cases of child sexual abuse and...
by David Niven | Oct 4, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Media, Social Work, Training
Children and social workers I have done many radio interviews and some television over the last few days about the terrible tragedies of children who have died at the hands of their parents and nothing takes away the question ‘could any more have been done?’. Every...
by daveniven | Sep 20, 2013 | Media, Social Work, Training
Social work and the media One of the things that I offer through David Niven Associates is media training, both basic creation of a media plan for individuals or organisations as well as a plan of what to do and how to manage situations in a crisis where your...
by daveniven | Sep 12, 2013 | Children, Media, Social Work, Training
Media training for social workers Again there’s all sorts of talk of social work in the media and how social workers are represented with one or two of the extreme newspapers enjoying their normal attempts to reinforce stereotypes and the social work community...
