The Guardian

APRIL 21, 2022

In 1943, Branko Petrovi?, a teacher in Kikinda, Yugoslavia, was arrested for helping the wartime resistance movement, and was executed by the Nazis, leaving a nine-year-old daughter, Ljubica. He could never have foreseen the life that his daughter, later known as Ljubica Erickson, and who has died aged 88, would go on to have.

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Adoption 83

The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

My friend Vicki Martin, who has died aged 86, worked in social care for many years before becoming a social work assessor operating across the whole of Wales. Vicki’s life embodied social justice and the importance of investing in better futures for everyone.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

My aunt, Joan Bailey, who has died aged 91, was a hugely generous character, committed to helping improve the lives of people less fortunate than herself. She worked as a nurse for many years, then moved into social work at Springfield hospital in Tooting, south-west London, which specialises in mental health.

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The Guardian

JUNE 15, 2023

Melanie Phillips, who has died aged 64 of cancer, was one of the cadre of Black, Asian and minority ethnic people who trained as social workers in the early 1980s and joined the battle to protect Black and Asian children, and improve support to their families.

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Social Worker 53

The Guardian

JULY 26, 2023

My father, Eric Youd, who has died aged 88, was a youth and community leader in Oldham for more than 30 years. He was best known for managing Oldham community centre and also the multicultural Greenhill centre in the Glodwick area of the town in the 1980s, a decade in which riots were breaking out across many British cities.

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The Guardian

MAY 16, 2022

My mother, Gloria Randall, who has died aged 91, was a social worker who was attuned to the particular needs of Jewish refugee clients, having fled Nazi persecution aged eight. As a pioneer in the social work field of the new NHS, she was also a team leader in complex family care cases.

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The Guardian

JULY 25, 2023

My sister-in-law Marion Davis, who has died aged 67 from complications associated with Parkinson’s disease, was a social worker and a passionate advocate for children’s services. She argued that “the voice and the needs of the child … must always be heard”.

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Social Worker 45

The Guardian

MAY 27, 2022

My dad, Paddy Barry, who has died aged 84, had a long career as a social worker, working mainly with children. From 1974 to 1997 he was the principal officer for children’s residential and day care for Wandsworth council, in south-west London, which in those days ran more than 25 children’s homes across the borough.

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Social Worker 63

The Guardian

JULY 22, 2022

My friend John Small, who has died aged 74, was a social worker who rose to be deputy director of social services at the London borough of Hackney before returning to his native Jamaica to work as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies.

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The Guardian

APRIL 3, 2023

My friend and mentor Peter Westland, who has died aged 90, was one of the first directors of social services in the UK, and later had a significant influence on social care at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities (AMA), where he campaigned against the marketisation of care services.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 18, 2022

My friend Bill Milner, who has died aged 76 from mesothelioma, caused by exposure to asbestos, worked in the building industry during the 1970s and 80s. Bill had a hard life. He was taken into council care in 1954 when he was eight years old, with his younger brother, Fred, aged six, but never understood why.

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The Guardian

JULY 26, 2022

In the late 1950s a deep strain of community activism took root in North Kensington, west London. Many of the grassroots campaigns there over the next six decades – including notable battles against racism and for better housing – could be mapped through the life of Eddie Adams, who has died aged 85.

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Adoption 60

The Guardian

MARCH 31, 2023

My aunt, Eileen Evason, who has died aged 75, was a respected teacher, researcher and campaigner for social justice who became emeritus professor in social administration at Ulster University. Eileen spent her working life in Northern Ireland, where she identified with the people and the issues.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Although small in stature, my friend Michael Shamash, who has died aged 63, had a very big presence in the lives of many who knew him.

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Disability Advocacy University Social Worker 77

The Guardian

JULY 27, 2023

After Peter Westland became the first director of social services for the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1971, he not only mentored many of us social workers, but we became his friends.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 25, 2022

Child and adolescent psychiatrist whose work with bereaved young people resulted in the book When Father Kills Mother Dora Black, who has died aged 89 of cancer, was a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist who voiced a much-needed refrain, “but what about the children?”,

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Psychiatry 50

Social Workers Speak

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Elijah Nealy was a member: Elijah Nealy Obituary. The New York Times. Nealy, BA, MDiv, LCSW, PhD , died peacefully at his home in West Hartford, Connecticut after a difficult 18-month journey with cancer. In the loving company of his family, he took his last breath on Thursday, September 23, 2021.

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 5, 2022

Keith Hartman was a member: Obituary: Keith Hartman. Sarina Manifold, a licensed clinical social worker with specialized training in veterinary social work , helps pet owners through end-of-life decision-making and conducting memorial ceremonies. Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

October 4, 1935 – January 19, 2024 Diana Lee Guida Brown Throughout a career in social work at New York area hospitals, Diana Guida Brown gave passionate voice to the needs and dignity of hospital patients when she perceived them as being overlooked, sometimes going to the state house in Albany to fight for new legislation, or advocating for policy (..)

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Even families who had included these men’s names on Christmas cards, left their names off of obituaries. Where their beloved’s presence had protected them from scorn, their absence made them vulnerable to be thrown away. More than that, dignity and humanity arise only from equal opportunity.

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