What is in store for Social Work and Social Care in 2012? (Twitter Debate 2012-01-10)
Welcome to the first of our weekly debates for 2012. It was excellent to see the rapidly growing number and range of our participants and we would like to Thank…
Category Archives: Live Debates
Season’s Greetings from @SWSCmedia
Wishing Everyone the Very Best of the Festive Season… We Thank You for your support and look forward to seeing you in the New Year in our debates… We started…
Debate Summary for 13-Dec-2011 on Social Work and Social Care Employment in Times of Austerity
Last Tuesday, there was another exciting @SWSCmedia debate with social workers and social care workers from around the global participating. In fact, we had participants from 6 different countries who…
Social work and the recession – a lost generation of social workers? – By Nushra Mansuri
Part of my job includes representing BASW at recruitment job fairs such as Compass and Community Care Live. One of the saddest things I have come across in the last…
Social Work Employment in a Time of Austerity – By Ermintrude2
On Tuesday at 8pm (GMT), there will be a scheduled discussion on Twitter hosted by @swscmedia about employment in the field of social work. This blogpost is written with that…
Social Work and Social Care Employment in Times of Austerity – By Victoria Dixon
‘Employment prospects in times of austerity’: it feels like one of those terrible jokes where you just don’t get the punch line. That sounds pessimistic I will grant you but…
Social Work and Social Care Employment in Times of Austerity
The rhetoric of better government services and increased support for vulnerable individuals and their families is contrasted with the harsh reality of significant budget cuts, reduction and/or closure of services,…
Debate Summary for Early Intervention: Concept, Context, Realities and Prospects… (6 December 2011)
Debate Summary for 06- Dec. – 2011 on Early Intervention in Social Work and Social Care Thank you to the wonderful participants in our lively and rich debate… it was…
Early intervention and social class: A critique of the potential for notions of preventative work to reinforce the social control functions of social work…
I have been invited to write an opinion piece for an online debate tomorrow night entitled “Early Intervention: Concept, Context, Reality and Prospects”. Although it is difficult to challenge the…
Early Intervention: Concept, Context, Realities and Prospects – Is this the time? – By Nushra Mansuri
In some respects, the concept of early intervention is almost like the Holy Grail to social workers; many of us would dearly love to be engaged in it, recognise the…
