004 Parenting; Reporting abuse; Homeless children
The Social World Podcast
After a good look at some of the inside pages in the media I discuss:
- A new book by a Swedish psychiatrist criticising liberal parenting and challenging a long held belief in Swedish society concerning the ways that children are disciplined (or not as the case may be).
- The comments by the just stepped down Attorney General saying he thinks it should be a criminal offence not to report child abuse. This is in the light of many occasions that have been reported where professionals such as teachers, doctors, priests etc have been aware of child abuse occurring but chosen not to report it.
- In the run up to the festive season we hear shocking reports of at least 80,000 homeless children in the UK. This is a report published by Shelter who point out the disgraceful conditions that some families have to live in and ministers who say that there’s already enough money being given to local authorities to sort this.
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003 Missing children; e-learning; short stories
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In this weeks podcast I provide information and sites, ideas and thoughts about how to get help and information regarding missing children.
Then an interview with Dr Neil Thompson talking of new e-learning initiatives which my company David Niven Associates has agreed to promote in association with Neil.
Today’s podcast finally finishes with some short and sweet stories from the social world.
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002 Legislation;Social Worker of the year;Future issues
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Welcome to the social world podcast second edition. Today I am going to cover 3 main topics.
Firstly a look at new legislation being proposed to further control sex offenders.
Secondly an interview with one of our Associate trainers at David Niven Associates Jenni Randall who has been nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Social Work of the Year Awards in November. She reminisces on her work with Looked After children.
Finally a brief look into the future and what the next generation may have to cope with.
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001 Introductory Episode
Episode 001
Welcome to the the first episode of the Social World Podcast . This will become a weekly event and I hope you can join us, contribute and enjoy.
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It’s amazing sometimes how the dividing line blurs between the written and the spoken media. However I’m going to try and make some kind of distinction between them from now on.
I’ve been persuaded to start a podcast as it seems there’s a growing audience and opportunity to listen, learn and pass on information. It also gives a chance to do some nice interviews. It’s like having your own radio programme. God knows I might even put some music in the background.
I am going to carry on the themes that I began to establish in the blog, everything ranging from injustice through to good practice as well as sprinkling in bits of the world’s stupidity and probably a few nuggets of absolute magic.
It’s quite exciting being able to have what they call a multi-platform communications system. I just hope that we can use it to our best advantage and that I can start some genuine dialogue about subjects that have lived with me for years.
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