Engage : Talking Social Services | Change – The Ever Constant
Alan Baird, Chief Social Work Adviser to the Scottish Government, shares his sector news and views in his brand new blog, Talking Social Services. Since my last blog, the new
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Engage: Personalising the agenda for social care in Edinburgh
Ensuring that the health and wellbeing of Edinburgh’s half a million residents is protected is not a job that we take lightly. Edinburgh Council’s Health and Social Care department this
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Engage: Abuse survivors are showing Theresa May’s inquiry the way
The Home Office’s planned inquiry into child sexual abuse across all areas of British public life has had a troubled start to say the least. While its panel has at
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Engage: The potential for social media in social work practice
Joanne Westwood, one of the speakers at a recent Research in Practice ‘Social Media in Social Work’ conference, writes about social media and ideas for integrating it into social work
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Engage: Creative Quarter – The importance of leisure
One of my biggest criticisms of the way social care currently works, and where there is a conflict with the principles of independent living, is its distaste for leisure activities.
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Engage: How are life-chances of children at risk in the UK?
Five out of 1,000 children in the UK will not live until their fifth birthday, reports Dick Skellington. There is a growing scandal in British society we tend to turn
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Engage: Improving ourselves to keep children safe
“The recent report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham is upsetting in so many ways, not least for the girls and young women who were abused. As is often the
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Engage: Care about poverty? Here are 10 reasons why you also need to think about ethnicity
Ethnicity matters when it comes to tackling poverty. But, says Helen Barnard, it’s not about broad generalisations. For the last three years we have funded research into the links between
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Engage: Social workers should be paid and trained like doctors
Social workers deal with messy, complex and ambiguous situations where off-the-peg solutions are often irrelevant. Take a mother who wants to feed a hungry baby, but her fridge is empty
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Engage: Outrage at privatising child protection should spark an overhaul of the whole system
The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore
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