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Social Work Sessions is a podcast which provides information through discussions with people in social work, from the front line, academia and elsewhere.
Hosted by Carolyn Smith, Principal Social Worker for Adult Social Care in Somerset Council.
Please get in touch with us with feedback or requests for future episode topics: SWSPodcast@somerset.gov.uk
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Wellbeing tips for Social Workers
In this special episode to mark Social Work Week, Carolyn Smith talks to two of Somerset Council's Advanced Practitioners, Amanda Rae and Jana Taylor about Wellbeing and the transformative role social workers play in people's lives. But we need to look after ourselves.
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Relational Activision and Co-design, with Tim Fisher
Tim Fisher has been a social worker for over 15 years and is currently a service manager in London's Camden Council. Tim's Masters Degree research focussed on empowerment models in social work and he has published academic writing on community approaches.
He has collaborated with organisations to develop restorative practice, under the banner To Love is to
Act. This encourages people towards Relational Activism, which means taking action in the everyday and making change happen through personal and informal relationships.
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Mental Capacity and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, with Chris Hamilton
Chris Hamilton is an experienced social worker and leader of Somerset's Mental Capacity and DoLS Team. Carolyn Smith talks to Chris about his past and his work in Somerset. Chris speaks passionately about communicating decisions so that non-professionals can understand them and what 'best interest' actually means for people and their families.
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Social work with older people, with Dr Phoebe Beedell
Dr Phoebe Beedell is a Senior Research Associate in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University. In this episode of the Social Work Sessions, Dr Beedell talks to Carolyn Smith about her recent research project into social work with older people (SWOP), undertaken with the Universities of Birmingham and Bristol, and Effective Practice , funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
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Legal Literacy with Professor Michael Preston-Shoot
In this episode of the Social Work Sessions, Professor Michael Preston-Shoot talks to Carolyn Smith about legal literacy; the ability to connect relevant legal rules with ethical and rights-based practice; and how legal literacy informs defensible decision-making.
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Social Work England - Philippa Geddes on the work of the Social Work regulator
Philippa Geddes, from Social Work England, talks to Carolyn Smith on the work of the Social Work regulator.