Engage: What it really feels like when a loved one goes missing
Each year, more than 250,000 missing person reports are made to the police in the UK alone. The loss can have a profound emotional effect on the families left behind,
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Engage: New Cardiff office will give voice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse
I am delighted to be opening the Inquiry office in Wales this week and speaking directly with some of the organisations who provide support for victims and survivors of child
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Engage: Sexuality and social work – how is the social worker doing?
For more than 10 years now I have been working as a social worker assisting sex workers. Humanitas PMW in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a NGO that offers specialized support
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Engage: Child migrants taken to Britain – now they need support and psychological care
Hundreds of unaccompanied child asylum seekers are being taken to Britain, moved from a camp in Calais, northern France, as its closure begins. There were 387 unaccompanied minors in the
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Engage: Kindness Matters – Exploring the power of everyday words and actions
Gradually it comes into focus, when you step back from the routine. Words and acts of kindness – even very small – are part of what makes us human and
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Engage: Moving Forward: Flexible pathway supporting young autistic people into employment
The National Autistic Society Scotland – Moving Forward team, give an insight into how their project supports young autistic people into employment, further education or volunteering opportunities. The Moving Forward
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Engage: Valuing The Workforce – Alan Baird, Chief Social Work Adviser
The past few weeks has seen considerable attention being paid to the value placed on a workforce, which in Scotland, is now in excess of 200,000. One in every thirteen
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Engage: Drug and alcohol-related deaths: What of those left behind?
According to popular wisdom death is the great leveller, affirming our common humanity whatever our status in life. But our recent study of people bereaved by a drug or alcohol-related
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Engage: Essential information on pay for social care employers in Scotland
On 1st October 2016, all adult social care workers in Scotland are to be paid at least £8.25 per hour. Here, HR and Employment Law director of Peninsula, Alan Price,
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Engage: Connect, communicate and care on World Suicide Prevention Day
“I have met many parents who have lost a child to suicide,” explains Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory
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