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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.

Thoughts On The Social World David Niven: Social Work Expert

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 18 Ratings

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.

    158 Global Social Work Agenda in A Precarious World

    158 Global Social Work Agenda in A Precarious World

    It is the recording of the Global Social Work Talk from 28th March 2024. The Global Social Work TALK aimed to deliver “ideas to change the world”.

    • 58 min
    157 Unseen, the Leading UK Anti-Slavery Charity

    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. 

    • 44 min
    156 Traffiking and Slavery. Follow the Money.

    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.

    155 Trapped in County Lines. Christina Gabbitas

    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.

    • 28 min
    154 Safeguarding Communications, Miriam Rich

    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.

    • 30 min
    153 The small but important charity grows!

    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.

    • 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

Schlates ,

Another great episode

I would love to hear an episode on supervision

MC2712 ,

Social World Podcast

Great insight into many contentious topics. With many experienced guests. Gives the listener a real feel of whats happeneing in todays social work world.

Mark - (Social Work Student)

TonyDomaille ,

Filling the gap

So useful to have these podcasts to fill the gap in reporting in the media. Yes the papers and sometimes digital media talk about these issues but more often than not they are skated over. Good stuff.

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