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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

She is an expert in generative AI, machine learning in social work, social media use, online education, and teaching with technology. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. The full article can be downloaded here and shared with your local social services agencies.

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The Victoria ClimbiƩ Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.

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Agile working failing to meet social workersā€™ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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How can we protect peoples mental health during the cost-of-living-crisis?

MQ Mental Health

Stakeholder consultations involving representatives from key sectors, including people with personal experiences of mental health conditions, researchers from health and social sciences, community and charity organizations, mental health practitioners, and leaders from both private and public sectors.

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Thoughts from the storage boxes

The Vintage Social Worker

The prevailing political dogma was that fostering and possibly adoption were the best option and significantly easier on the purse strings. Our standardised interviewing techniques certainly do not allow exploration of many of these issues. And yet we closed and cut and closed again.

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ā€œMaybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the stateā€™s ā€œchild welfareā€ system theyā€™d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now letā€™s flash forward to 1989.

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NASW Media News Hits ā€“ December 2021

Social Workers Speak

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.