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…
Category Archives: Open Learning and Tools
Welcome to @SWSCmedia’s TwitteRama TwitteRamba Twitter Party
We are happy you could make it and Thank you for joining us this evening. Please read these instructions carefully… We Thank Dr. Jonathan Scourfield and Dr. Martin Webber for…
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 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,…
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…
Early Intervention: Concept, Context, “Realities” and Prospects…
In her final report on England’s child protection system, Professor Eileen Munro recommended the government place a statutory duty on local authorities and their partners to ensure they have made appropriate provision…
The Use/Application of Social Media in Social Work Education Has Wonderful Potential… – by Dorlee M.
While I was fortunate to attend and graduate this past September from one of the leading graduate social work schools in the United States, my school did not demonstrate the…
Use and application of social media in social work and social care education
Bear with me for a bit as I am going back into my personal work history to go forward to the use of social media in social work. This opinion…
The role of social media in social workers’ continuing professional development – by Dr.Martin Webber
I love Twitter. I’ve only been on it a matter of months, but now I wonder how I can live without it. The banter, puns and wordplay often make me…
