High profile child sexual exploitation campaigner Sarah Champion has visited Sheffield Hallam University to help mark the launch of a new social work course which looks at how social workers’
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A Ukrainian concert pianist who became embroiled in a row with social workers after his son was taken into foster care has been criticised by a family court judge. The
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The latest year’s statistics on criminal justice social work have been published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician. Figures from ‘Criminal justice social work statistics: 2013-14’ show that the successful completion rate
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Two City of Edinburgh Council social workers have had their contempt of court conviction quashed by a judgment from the Court of Session on Friday. The pair, referred to AB
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Social worker Shaun Woosey has been struck off the the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Register on the grounds of misconduct after serious failings over a protracted period put
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To mark the centenary of social work at Edinburgh in 2018, applications are invited to carry out doctoral research on the history of social work education in Scotland, focusing on
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This week a group of 10 students from the Department of Social Work, Care and Justice at Liverpool Hope University are on a field trip visit to Israel and Palestine
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Bookings are now being taken for the Specialist Award Module entitled ‘Reminiscence, Life Story Work and Life Review: Narrative methods, theory and application across the life cycle’. The post qualifying
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The first-ever national document to outline how social workers should respond when working with someone with alcohol and drugs problems has been launched. Leading social work and health organisations have
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A packed lecture theatre welcomed keynote speaker Dr Ray Jones, Professor of Social Work and author of ‘The story of Baby P, setting the record straight,’ to Southampton Solent’s Itchen
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