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Panicking over the past – Opinion piece by Mark Smith
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in the present, the Jimmy Savile affair opens up the whole of recent history as a site for us to panic…
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Moral Panics for the 21st Century – Opinion piece by Prof. Viviene Cree for @SWSCmedia Debate
Like many others, I have been interested in the idea of moral panics for a long time, probably since I first read Stan Cohen’s ground-breaking book, Folk Devils and Moral…
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Moral Panics and Social Work: towards a sceptical view of UK child protection – @SWSCmedia Debate
Children and families social work has been prone to periodic involvement in scares and moral panics, e.g. the Munchausen by proxy syndrome of the 1970s, glue-sniffing in the 1980s, satanic…
Social Media for Social Work and the ethics of online engagment – Debate Summary
Thank you for joining @SWSCmedia debate on “Social Media for Social Work and the ethics of online engagement: An evening with BASW”. This debate was used for crowdsourcing social workers opinions…
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Frontline: The Fast-track Social Work Training Scheme… @SWSCmedia Debate
Thank you for joining @SWSCmedia debate on Frontline and for sharing your views. We are very pleased to have offered the first public open debate about Frontline where all participants could…
Frontline: The Fast-track Social Work Training Scheme… @SWSCmedia Debate
There has been much said about Frontline, the newly proposed fast-track social work qualifying programme, in different papers and media including the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Independent,…
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Social Work & Child Protection: A Broken System?
In a recent speech at the Institute of Public Policy Research, Education secretary Michael Gove started his speech by saying: “I want to begin with an admission. The state is…
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What can we learn from Savile’s case?
TV star Jimmy Savile, who died last year at the age of 84, is believed to have been one of the UK’s most prolific sex offenders. Estimates suggest that as…
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#SWSCMedia Debate Summary: Internet & Child Abuse Offenders – what are the current challenges? With Special Guest Mark Williams-Thomas
Thank you for joining us and for sharing your views on “The Internet & Child Abuse Offenders – what are the current challenges?” @SWSCmedia. It was a lively evening with excellent…
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The Internet & Child Abuse Offenders – what are the current challenges? – Opinion piece by Mark Williams-Thomas
The Internet has created a global gateway and market, with no boundaries or distances to travel. As a result the policing of online child abuse offenders has required a co-ordinated…
