Community Care
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found.
Save the Social Worker
APRIL 28, 2024
What about in social work? Do social work books help us to become better social workers? But more than that, The Kite Runner is also a book that enables us to reconsider what we do as social workers. In a profession like social work, this matters. But I don’t have time to read!
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Community Care
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. But the placement was such a success that the foster carer eventually became the child’s special guardian – and he went on to become a head boy of his school. A special boy.
Social Work Blog
AUGUST 18, 2022
Early in their careers, social workers learn the concepts of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. But how does self-care play out in real-life scenarios, when new social workers might not get the best supervision or insight into how to handle the stressors that come with the job of being a social worker?
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
To do things like this engages students with the association, and they get a better understanding about it as well.”. And, Riggs said, they get to engage with other students from a variety of schools, backgrounds and states, “all on the same webinar.”. We need social workers so badly.”.
Community Care
JULY 11, 2023
The Department for Education has proposed far-reaching changes to social workers’ roles under Working Together to Safeguard Children, its guidance on services for children in need of help and protection in England. By contrast, the proposed update to the guidance mentions ‘social worker’ just 23 times.
Save the Social Worker
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
I remember the first time I walked into a client’s room as a student social worker. Social work isn’t just about the outcomes. Starting out as a social worker, you may have wanted to do some form of the following. in social work, it’s the relationships between you and the client that matter.
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