Social work news

• Do social workers hold mothers entirely responsible for their children’s safety?

  20-12-2023 14:45
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Parents are essential to a social worker’s job as they work to make home a safe place for a child to live in.
  However, the weight of cooperation with children’s services may fall more heavily on the mother, on whom society often lies the responsibility of familial health.
  Mothers are viewed by the world as the parent who should nurture, feed, care for and protect their children.
  
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• ‘Why trusting children matters in social care’

  20-12-2023 09:37
  
  By David Jones*
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  Recently, I went to the wedding of a young woman who used to be in care at the home I worked in.
  Jasmine had told me she regarded this as a fitting occasion to acknowledge some important events in her life, which she saw as vital in shaping her. She also wanted to share this celebration with those people whose interventions she would never forget.
  One such intervention had i
  
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