If children are to be protected and their families, properly supported, the child protection system needs real investment and reform.
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Families need support to care for their children safely, rather than having their children removed.
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
Salaries are not the only factor making it hard to keep talented people on board.
Children’s voices are being omitted from their care records, with devastating effect.
In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
Medical social workers coordinate care, an especially important job in complicated cases. Just as nurses and doctors are feeling burned out, these unsung heroes are feeling the burn, too. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
Mothers are dying prematurely after their children are taken into foster care.
A new Channel 4 drama has drawn criticism from social workers for its representation of the profession.
Social workers are there to help, not to rip families apart.
99% of people who disappear come home again. A third of them don’t stay.
While the global health community has made mental healthcare a priority, South Africa is not following suite. The impact is felt most acutely by poor people suffering from mental health disorders.
Making the NHS a seven-day service would intensify the pressure on the groaning social care system.
The Channel programme is meant to protect children, but it could be breaching their rights.
After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…
Rotherham Metropolitan Council has released its independent report on the handling of child sexual exploitation cases in the borough between 1997 and 2013. The author of the report, Professor Alexis Jay…
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 because she can’t…
Social work is at a crossroads. As the next election cycle begins, the country’s social workers are caught between two completely different visions of their profession. One is based on the ideal of a democratic…
Child protection social workers appear in the media for all the wrong reasons. Most of the time, after a child abuse inquiry, they’re blamed for not doing enough or for acting too hastily and removing…
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer Social Work, Teesside University
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Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Social Work, Monash University
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Associate professor, Head of Centre for Evidence and Implementation, Parenting Research Centre
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in social work, University of Salford
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Researcher at the Centre for Health Systems Research & Development, University of the Free State
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Daryl Higgins is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Social Work Researcher and Teacher, Keele University
