Category Archives: Social Media

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Debate Summary for 29-Nov-2011 on Use and Application of Social Media In Social Work and Social Care Education

Debate Summary for 29-Nov-2011 on Use and Application of Social Media In Social Work and Social Care Education Thank you to all those who joined the debate and contributed to…

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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…

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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…

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