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How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

Community Care

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it.

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Social work’s public image ‘pushing people out of frontline roles and making families distrustful’

Community Care

Some newly qualified practitioners reported that their families and loved ones had expressed concerns about their career choice, found the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA) and South East Sector Led Improvement Programme’s (SESLIP) Big Listen study. The media’s negative coverage of the job does not help.

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Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back

Community Care

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Haringey Council swiftly sacked her.

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Profiles in cowardice: Terrified of demagogic politicians, family police agencies in two states prolong the agony of a five-year-old and his mother.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The New York Times published a deeply reported, deeply moving story Sunday about one immigrant mother’s desperate quest to find and reunite with her five-year-old son. Indeed, though Massachusetts media are doing a notably better job of covering these issues in general, year after year, they still give Mossaides a free pass.

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Democrats’ Communications Problem Is Not Karine Jean-Pierre

Beyond Advocacy

A key, if not the key, to the Presidency is the spokesperson for the administration, the press secretary. Jody Powell, Carter’s press secretary, was not especially memorable. Mike McCurry, Clinton’s longest press secretary, was exceptional. He was a master at managing the media and controlling the narrative.

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Children abandoned in the OTHER Arizona desert

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

He’s been banned from some social media spaces for running a “troll farm.” None of the facts about what really happened to Stewart was uncovered by an Arizona news organization. The Republic quoted exhaustively from Hoffman’s press release gloating about his triumph. (I I can’t link to it due to their paywall.)

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Miracle in Pinellas County, Florida! Child Abuse suddenly plummets by 50%! (Unless there’s some OTHER reason the sheriff suddenly found a way to stop taking away so many kids)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Later, Gualtieri bragged about refusing requests from the former “lead agency” running foster care in the county, Eckerd Connects, to please stop taking so many kids. The DCF press release is not a testament to sudden success but to horrifying long-term failure – by Eckerd Connects, by the sheriffs and by DCF itself.