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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. Be proactive in correcting items in the media when they get it wrong. Support those using services to link with the local media to tell their story.

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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.” It’s from ProPublica, which told the full story that Arizona media missed. Between 2008 and 2020, the number of Newspaper newsroom employees plummeted by 57% - and there’s no end to the decline in sight. Yes, ProPublica had an advantage.

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Race and the media

The Socail Issue

TweetI’ve been thinking since the Harry and Meghan interview and the subsequent debate sparked by the nonsensical claim from the Society of Editors that UK media isn’t bigoted.

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Honour stories: a passion for supporting care colleagues

Social Care

The media coverage was so much more than I expected and it was so lovely to see a positive story about social care on the front page of our local newspaper, rather than the negativity often associated with our sector. There are many unsung heroes in social care.

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ISOLATION: WHEN SOCIAL MEDIA IS OUR WINDOW INTO THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Blurt It Out

In relative terms, social media is new and we’re all still finding our feet with it. Whilst it often gets quite a negative rap in the media, for those of us who are living with mental ill health, it can act as our window into the outside world. WE CAN STAY UP TO DATE We can use social media to stay up to date with news.

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Why volunteering is good news for the social care workforce

Social Care

We were looking for “Chatty Companions” – people who could spend time with residents on a one-to-one basis, doing puzzles, reading newspapers and helping residents stay in touch with the outside world. We promoted this in local media and on social media and received a fantastic response.

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The Los Angeles Times is getting child welfare wrong again – and that’s bad news for Los Angeles children

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Normally, there is a news peg for stuff like this – some big event in the news prompting a newspaper to offer this kind of additional “context.” Former Washington Post editor Ben Bagdikian explained it decades ago in his seminal work of media criticism The Media Monopoly. Prominently.