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Career Profiles – Social Work Assistant

By Iain MacDonald21st January 2014New To Care

If you want to help and support people in the community, this could be a great job for you. Social work assistants help qualified social workers. The clients you work

Lancashire Police Community support officers axed in favour of social work

By Iain MacDonald14th January 2014News England

Plans to spend millions of pounds on 48 new PCSOs have been scrapped in favour of a social worker led early intervention scheme. Lancashire County Council’s previous Tory administration had

What do social workers do in hospitals?

By Tricia Fronek12th December 2013Engage

It was a pleasure to interview Shelley Craig and Barbara Muskat about hospital social work this week. Their research is published in an article called Bouncers, Brokers, and Glue: The

My First Taste of Social Work in the UK

By Social Work Shenanigans17th November 2013Engage

I have officially been at work for a few weeks now and it was quite an exciting, overwhelming and frustrating experience full of meeting various team members, signing up for

Career Profile – Social Worker

By Iain MacDonald10th October 2008New To Care

If you want to make a positive difference in the community, a career as a social worker could be a perfect choice for you. To become a social worker you

The APEL Route To Social Work

By Iain MacDonald18th May 2006Education & Training

Care Appointments meets two men who’ve made the transition from Social Care to Social Work… So just what exactly is Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)? In basic terms, it’s