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Engage: Bereavement by suicide – how traumatic events can make us stronger

By Tara Lal11th September 2015Engage

Tara Lal’s brother took his own life when she was just 17. Here she blogs about how his death affected her, and how over time her grief made her a

Engage: Is 30 hours of free childcare worth fighting for?

By Helen Barnard9th September 2015Engage

Good childcare provision is more about quality than quantity, says Helen Barnard. The Conservative’s flagship policy to give all families 30 hours of free childcare a week offered a ray

Engage: We must work together to prevent child trafficking

By NSPCC4th September 2015Engage

The NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC) is working with Vietnam, Nigeria and Romania to help stop vulnerable children from being trafficked into the UK. Thousands of vulnerable children and

Engage: Dementia and Politics – from the social work perspective

By Professor June Andrews20th August 2015Engage

The last few years in the UK have been marked by a surge in interest in dementia from politicians. It dates from the dawning realisation that dementia costs more than

Engage: How Jeremy Hunt’s seven-day NHS plans will punish social workers

By Sarah Pollock14th August 2015Engage

Sarah Pollock, Lecturer in Social Work argues that Government plans will increase the challenges facing social workers Proposals to offer routine NHS England services seven days a week have already

Engage: Vanessa Lodge on new moves to tackle Female Genital Mutilation

By Vanessa Lodge7th August 2015Engage

This is the time of year when young girls may be taken abroad for female genital mutilation (FGM). Vanessa Lodge, Chair of the national FGM steering group for NHS England,

Engage: Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that’s why they’re not heeded

By Melanie Lovatt6th August 2015Engage

As part of the government’s strategy to cut the human and economic cost of alcohol misuse, it currently recommends that men and women shouldn’t regularly drink more than three to

Engage: ‘Compound Harms: What the Literature Says About U.K. and U.S. Transgender Young People in Survival Sex’

By Lorna Barton30th July 2015Engage

Transgender (trans)* young people engaging in survival sex in the United Kingdom and the United States is a major research gap and this blog will introduce a limited selection of

Engage: How to implement the University of Birmingham’s research into social care micro-enterprises

By Chris Wilson23rd July 2015Engage

In July 2015, the University of Birmingham released a report ‘Micro-Enterprises: Small enough to care?’ The report summarised the findings of a two year evaluation of micro-enterprises in social care