150 episodes
Thoughts On The Social World David Niven: Social Work Expert
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- Society & Culture
Exploring social media in relation to social work, social policy and professional social care training. Discussion of vulnerable people and how they are portrayed in the media. Analysis of individual cases and how they are covered in television and printed media as well as online. How social media is impacting on children, families and vulnerable adults.
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157 Unseen, the Leading UK Anti-Slavery Charity
Unseen , the Leading UK Anti-Slavery Charity. Our talk covers ground related to law enforcement, survivor's welfare, training, the world wide nature of the crimes, predictions and the under application of legislation.
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156 Traffiking and Slavery. Follow the Money.
Traffiking and Slavery. Follow the Money. Such an important addition to the investigation and interruption of crimes that are conservatively put at costing over 150 Billion dollars a year. Karim Rajwani, B.A, F.C.A. C.P.A. ACAMS talks to me of his extensive history in several settings helping combat these scourges on our communities. We discuss the growth of these crimes as well as strategies adopted to support law enforcement. We talk about the huge need for more training, awareness raising accross the world. So much known yet so much to do including practical ideas that everyone can help with--such as challenging your own financial providers-banks, insurance companies etc - to say what training their staff has had in methods to shine a light on traffikers, slavery in all its forms and child exploitation. Currently he is an independent Financial Crimes Consultant advising financial instructions, consulting firms and FinTech’s and is also on several NGOs/NPOs advisory boards focused on fighting human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.
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155 Trapped in County Lines. Christina Gabbitas
In this episode I speak to award-winning children's author, Christina Gabbitas, about her book 'Trapped in County Lines'. This is a follow up book to 'No More Knives or County Lines'. We discuss why books like this are important in how we educate young people and their parents about issues like county lines. Christina shares the work she does with her book alongside the police and in schools and speaks of the power of storytelling around these difficult topics.
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154 Safeguarding Communications, Miriam Rich
The important process of keeping the public informed following a safeguarding event or tragedy. Truthfulness and sensitivity to all, especially victims and survivors.
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153 The small but important charity grows!
The project has changed since the last podcast, in a number of ways.
Firstly we operate as separate projects within the overall umbrella of The Remakery, there is a day for young people, a day for young learning disabled adults and a day for unemployed and those suffering from poor wellbeing.
This allows us to tailor the work undertaken to the needs of the group. -
152 Peter Garsden President of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers
Ten years on from my first podcast recording with Peter Garsden I speak with the President of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers again.