Engage: Mental health services are failing young autistic people
More and more is being done to raise awareness of mental health problems at a public and policy level, and understandably so. One in six adults in the UK has
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Engage: After the election – The voice of social work and social workers
The largely unexpected election results have led to a much stronger opposition in Westminster, mainly through the increase in Labour seats. The result, which also saw the collapse of the
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Engage: Our journey to provide residential services in the Highlands
Buying a house is, experts agree, the single most stressful thing any of us will ever do. Finding and securing the perfect property is, we are told, more fraught than
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Engage: How to settle social care funding once and for all
Branding it a “dementia tax” was inspired – opponents of the Conservative Party’s election manifesto railed against its fundamentally unfair proposals for dealing with the social care costs of increasing
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Engage: Foster Care – The heart of our care system
There’s a common myth that does the rounds in the run-up to all elections. We’ve all heard it: the belief that the work of local authorities grinds to a halt
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Engage: British Association of Social Workers – Manifesto for Social Work
The British Association of Social Workers have produced a Manifesto for Social Work that they hope the next government will fulfill following the general election. Here BASW Chair Guy Shennan
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Engage: Could you make the difference in the life of vulnerable children
Thousands of foster carers need to be recruited each year. Foster Care Fortnight (8-21 May), run by the UK’s leading fostering charity, The Fostering Network, not only calls for more
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Engage: News media still protect powerful men accused of sexual misconduct
When Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was finally fired after years of sexual harassment claims, it seemed like a welcome break from the norm: an exceptionally powerful man accused of
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Engage: How should social workers challenge poverty?
Austerity campaigner Charlotte Hughes considers what social workers and other professionals should be be doing to challenge poverty, austerity and stigma… More than a million people in the UK are
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Engage: The UK’s hidden homeless – lone women parents most likely to suffer
Growing numbers of women in England are experiencing ‘hidden homelessness’ – living in precarious arrangements without privacy or their own legal living space – according to new research. Women’s homelessness
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