Every day in this country social workers perform countless acts that make a real difference to the lives of thousands of people. What these social workers do involves kindness, compassion,…
Next week there a are a number of events and important events and activities (both online and face-to-face) to celebrate Social Work Week #SWweek, beginning with World Social Work Day #WSWDay (Tuesday,…
SWSCmedia: What made you decide to do this programme with BBC? Annie Hudson: We were approached by the BBC in autumn 2009 about doing a follow-up to ‘Someone to Watch…
There are at least 24 million children around the world living without parental care. As far as we know. More shocking is that we don’t know for sure how many…
This literary review calls for families and children in developing countries to be supported in waysthat are appropriate to the conditions, culture and resources available rather than through approaches to…
We are sorry for the delayed posting of our summary. We have had some technical problems and it has now been resolved. Therefore, below is the summary of this week’s…
Praxis, lest you be unaware, is the Klingon moon, utilised as a key energy production facility, which is foolishly destroyed due to over-mining by those furrow-browed permagrumpies in Star Trek:…
My best example of the relationship between theory and practice comes from my own work as a clinical social worker doing psychotherapy. In this case I’ll illustrate the process of changing…
An ill timed tweet mentioning Paulor Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed bought an invitation from @swscmedia to contribute an opinion piece to this week’s debate on “The fusion of…
Social Work and Social Care professionals are involved in the lives and everyday lived “reality” of their users of service ranging from identifying their needs, to allocation of resources, to…
