by David Niven | Nov 13, 2014 | Children, Children & Social Care, Conference, law, Media, Media Training, Newly qualified social workers, Podcasts, Research, Social Media, Social Work, social work education, Training, Training Courses, Uncategorized
JSWEConference Part 6. Thoughts of newly qualified workers and social media in social work education. A final roundup of interviews from the conference. Firstly an interesting discussion with three newly qualified social workers from the University of Dundee, Leanne ,...
by David Niven | Aug 29, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Conference, Media, Podcasts, Research, Social Media, Social Work, Training, Training Courses, Uncategorized
Three more excellent interviews from the Joint Social Work Education Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London. Firstly, Tim Kelly , Dean of Social Work and Community Education who Chaired the whole event, talks of his vision of social work. Then Amanda...
by David Niven | Aug 18, 2014 | Children, Conference, Podcasts, Research, Social Work, Training
The second of this series features John Devaney, Director of Social Work Education at Queens University , Belfast and his co-presenter John Carpenter, Professor of Social Work from the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. John Devaney was 20 years...
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 | Mar 13, 2014 | Children, Children & Social Care, Podcasts, Social Work, Training
David Akinsanya is a successful campaigner for Looked After children. The reason for his work is due to his complex and troubled story. David was brought up in care and consequently experienced many troubling events. My interview with David discusses these events and...