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With The World Teetering

Gary Direnfeld

In my elementary school there was only one non-Jewish student in all my classes from Kindergarten to sixth grade. Continue to support those who need support. Be helpful. Look past the vitriol and lead a life of example. It seemed that where ever we shopped, everyone looked and sounded like our family.

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Mandatory CPD or ASYE boost needed to tackle Covid impact on social work education, finds study

Community Care

Mandatory CPD or enhancements to the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) are needed to address skills and knowledge gaps left by the disruption to social work education caused by the pandemic. Of 166 students surveyed by researchers for this report, 60.6% Of 166 students surveyed by researchers for this report, 60.6%

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Whose Homework is it Anyways?

Gary Direnfeld

There’s a new crop of students, now in first year university. Among them are students whose parents carried them through high school. Now in university these students are realizing there is an increased work load and yet far more independence. Some of these students will slack off. The work won’t get done.

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How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

Community Care

Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Attend community events and give information about social work at events where services such as the Red Cross, RNLI, the fire service have a presence. Be proactive in correcting items in the media when they get it wrong.

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The best advice for social workers: ‘Take care of yourself first – it’s not selfish, it’s necessary’

Community Care

But also, it’s okay that you don’t stay in a team or a service and that you try different things. Because that’s what helps with resilience and that’s what gives you that motivation. So, that would be my advice: don’t just go into a service and stay there for the rest of your career. What do they say? Put your mask on first.

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Fast-track programme to train 320 more social workers in £19m contract extension

Community Care

Following a five-week grounding in social work law and theory, mostly delivered online, the participants will be placed in units of four to six in NHS or local authority mental health services and expected to qualify as a social worker in one year.

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Pinterest Assignment for the Social Work Classroom

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Our goal was to breathe some new life into a stale assignment. The directions for the assignment are as follows: Students are required to create a HBSE Pinterest page ( www.pinterest.com ) that will be used to “pin” items that relates to content throughout the semester. Create a Page labelled with the semester and your (i.e.

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