The Right to Family Life
When the Right to Family Life Is Violated: “Trust Betrayed, Again and Again”
Photo by Karen A. Hart “The way parents in poverty are treated is massively disproportionate. When you’re scrimping on the (…) Read more
Social Worker Training Programme Study Group Eight Summary
Reacting to the findings of The Role of the Social Worker in Adoption – Ethics and Human Rights: An Enquiry, (…) Read more
British Association of Social Workers: ‘Austerity Has Exacerbated Difficulties’
This blog post was written in April 2018 by Guy Shennan, chair of BASW, the British Association of Social Workers. (…) Read more
Radical Practice in a Risk-Averse Environment: Learning from ATD Fourth World
The article Radical Practice in a Risk-Averse Environment: Learning from ATD Fourth World has been published by Aotearoa New Zealand (…) Read more
Division, Disrespect and Disengagement: on Relationships Between Social Workers and Parents
The guest post below was written by “Annie”, the creator of a website called Surviving Safeguarding. I launched my website (…) Read more
I am a person not a case study
The following is a presentation given by Andrew, a father whose family have been the subject of social service interventions (…) Read more
Austerity impacts children’s social care and practice
Photo by Nasrin Siege This article was written in 2017 by Anna Gupta for the Social workers and service users (…) Read more
Building a stronger more powerful voice for change!
After a very successful presentation at the British Association of Social Work (BASW) summit in January‘Talking about the future of (…) Read more
Child Protection: Building Trust in a Climate of Risk and Fear – Study Group 7
Family members at ATD Fourth World UK with direct knowledge and experience of poverty and child protection examined this difficult (…) Read more
Social Worker Training Programme Study Group Six Summary
The sixth Social Worker Training Programme study group centred on The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection, as (…) Read more