Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Graduates of fast-track training schemes feel more prepared for social work but experience greater stress and less satisfaction once in practice, research for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. Postgraduate degrees – two-year generic university course, with 70-day placement in year 1 and 100-day placement in year 2.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Johnston’s appointment comes with children’s social care facing one of its biggest periods of reform in decades, on the back of the Department for Education’s (DfE) draft strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love, issued in February. Before that, Will Quince spent 10 months as children’s minister.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department for Education funding will go to 79 of the 153 authorities, who were chosen following an application process. Half of councils have been given a share of £11.7m to recruit 461 social work apprentices to bolster their children’s services workforces.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

Additionally, it provides an opportunity to educate people about the struggles, challenges, and triumphs that women have faced in their pursuit of equality and recognition. Consequently, many universities started offering courses in women’s history and women’s studies.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Routes into social work in England University undergraduate courses : three-year generic programmes, with fees of £9,250 a year, annual bursaries of £4,862.50 (£5,262.50 University postgraduate courses (1,148 starters in 2021): two-year generic programmes, with fees of about £9,000 a year, annual bursaries of £3,362.50 (£3,762.50

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

About social work apprenticeships Social work apprenticeships are degree-level qualifications that generally take three years, with apprentices spending at least 20% of their time in off-the-job training, delivered by a university or other learning provider.

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inSocialWork

MARCH 26, 2024

Lauri Goldkind Large language models, generative AI, natural language processing, ChatGPT and Dall-E are all conspiring to transform social work practice and education — at least, that’s the hype. University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Show Notes Goldkind_L_Episode_Transcript Download Cite this podcast – Sobota, P. 2024, Mar 26).

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In July, as part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we published an interview with Sharon Shoesmith , director of education and children’s services at Haringey Council when the Peter Connelly case (known at the time as Baby P) hit the headlines. Think about taking part in high profile documentary (fly-on-the-wall) programmes.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Japan College of Social Work and the University of New South Wales is co-hosting a joint workshop on field education. It is also supported by JASWE. It is a hybrid event (at JCSW, UNSW and online) and completely free with simultaneous interpretation.

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. This followed several days of strike action across the country, from November 2022 to March 2023, with walkouts also having taken place at specific universities since then.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There was “a universal recognition of the fact that change is needed” among a group, consisting largely of sector leaders, that the regulator has convened to tackle social work’s worsening recruitment and retention issues, Sarah Blackmore told adults’ directors last month.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje organised an international conference “Social Work and Social Policy in Times of Global Crises”. Julia Watkins, who was awarded due to her contribution in the Academic Alliance Universities for Democracy – AUDEM, Southeast Europe Academic Women’s Leadership Initiative (SEEW) and many others.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

On April 17, the University of Connecticut (UConn) Office of the Provost announced awards of promotion and/or tenure to faculty, including the School of Social Work’s Kathryn Libal, Ph.D. She is the UConn’s liaison with the Scholars at Risk Program and a founding member of the executive committee of Scholars at Risk USA chapter.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

They will do one of two courses approved by regulator Social Care Wales, both managed and delivered by partnerships of employers and universities. It includes taught days at university, work-based training, observation of practice and self-directed study and reflection. Pegging it to registration means employers have to do it.”

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

COVID-19 caused an unprecedented global pandemic that unmasked inequities in higher education. The pandemic interrupted conventional methods of learning and significantly changed the field of higher education. Universities were prompted to replace face-to-face lectures with online learning platforms.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 2, 2024

The UConn School of Social Work (SSW) is proud to announce that Professor Cristina Mogro-Wilson was elected to the board of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE). Wilson, an at-large board member, will join the current board in supporting GADE’s mission to promote excellence and equity in social work doctoral education.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers who serve clients who may be at risk for substance-related problems, including substance use disorders and substance-exposed pregnancies. We’re listening! Tell us what you know , think—and wish you knew—about client alcohol and other substance use.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 1, 2023

Prof Dr Azlinda Azman appointed new Higher Education DG Prof Dr Azlinda Azman , IASSW Treasurer has been appointed as the new Higher Education director-general effective Wednesday (May 31) until May 30, 2025, the Higher Education Ministry, Malaysia announced. More details at : [link]

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 6, 2023

Make a difference-Social Work without barriers: In response to sustainable development and public emergency IASSW invite you to join the International Conference of the ASEAN-Social Work Education and Social Development 2023. Lena DOMINELLI (Professor of University of Stirling) Prof.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They also said it should be included in social work courses in colleges and universities. Equipped with this information, we went about creating and testing training and education materials for social workers. This was achieved through co-production, which involved widespread collaboration. please do contact us!"

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 2, 2023

Date: 18th January, 2023, Hybrid Mode, (Hybrid event/ in person Nelson Mandela University). CO-HOSTED BY IASSW/ ASSWA/ NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY/JOHANNESBURG UNIVERSITY/ASASWEI. TITLE: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORK IN REALISING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. Please register to get meeting link : [link]. Time: 9h00 to 17h00.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 19, 2024

He turned down a place at Oxford University, deciding instead to launch his career in the charity sector. He started by delivering cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and alternative education programmes in prisons before becoming COO of City Gateway who provide support to at-risk children and women in Tower Hamlets.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

President and Fellows of Harvard College that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. More directly, the ruling forbids all colleges and universities in the United States from taking race into consideration when admitting students.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

It is a fun process as new adjuncts bring new ideas and energy to the role, and I have been reminded of my early days in social work education as an adjunct instructor. I often think back to that experience as my boot camp for my career as an academic in social work education. Learn your boundaries as a social work educator.

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The Critical Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is a succinct, thoughtful, and rigorous guide to the role of the special educational needs coordinator (SENCo). Christopher Roberston of the SENCo Forum Advisory Group has reviewed Developing Your Expertise as a SENCo edited by Helen Knowler, Hazel Richards and Stephanie Brewster which we published on 3rd October 2023.

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Doin' The Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We are now offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series at Columbia University , Michigan State University , and the University of Houston. She also works in higher education in retention of Native students and is a PhD student in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 5, 2024

Watkins is the founding director of the Gender and Health Research (GendHR) Lab, the Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research, and the award-winning Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project, which leverages technology to provide mental health education and social support for young Black men.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

New data from the university admissions service Ucas shows that this year more than 25,000 students who accepted places on social care degrees or subjects allied to medicine had studied a BTec, a qualification the government intends to drop as part of its new skills and post-16 education bill, to be debated in the House of Commons on Monday.

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Her teaching and scholarship focus on multicultural praxis in communities, organizations and higher education. Her current projects include identifying strategies for multicultural community-based research and practice, multicultural education for social work practice, and identifying effective methods for learning about social justice.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. However, critics within the profession have long raised concerns about the lack of attention and resources directed at other routes into social work, particularly university courses.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 25, 2023

Preparing Future Social Workers for Data-Driven Practice: A Panel Discussion with Universities in Moldova and the USA Information about the webinar: Join Data for Impact (D4I) on May 31 at 8–9:00am EDT (15:00–16:00 EET) for a webinar on preparing future social workers for data-driven practice.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 28, 2021

on the theme “The Pandemic that Shook Social Work Education It is a collaborative effort from academics, students, practice teachers and service users from across the globe exploring social work’s educational response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, focusing specifically on how they have responded to the many issues and challenges that emerged.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

Contributor to the report, Keith Godfrey, Professor of Epidemiology and Human Development at the University of Southampton and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre said: “Adverse child experiences have lasting impacts that impair a child’s ability to fulfil their potential.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

Editor’s Note: Christa McCrorie (she/her), LICSW-PIP, is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a social worker with a private practice, Creative Therapeutic Solutions, LLC, where she specializes in queer needs and trauma processing. What are my areas of expertise? What do I know about adjunct teaching?

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Doin' The Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The University of Houston has a phenomenal social work program that offers face-to-face master's and doctorate degrees, as well as an online and hybrid MSW. and “but you’re getting an educational experience.” and “but you’re getting an educational experience.” Go to [link] to learn more and register. We hope you will join us!

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 31, 2024

Went on to graduate from New York University and completed postgraduate work at Columbia University. We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system, but also for those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity." -- Dorothy Height Whitney M.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court began hearing two cases concerning admissions criteria using affirmative action as one means of determining who gets coveted entry into Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. We would not be here had this country seen the value in educating all its citizens. Supreme Court.

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