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Promoting humane social work with families
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On 19 February 2016 I attended the conference about promoting humane social work at Kings College London which had been organised by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) in conjunction with the University of Bedfordshire and Making Research Count. For more details on this conference see the
BASW website.
I am very grateful to Brid Featherstone for inviting me. It was both an interesting and inspiring day. Have a look on
Twitter using #cpchange2016 for tweets about the discussions and issues raised.
I hope we can continue the conversation further at the Second Child Protection Conference on 3 June 2016
organised by the Transparency Project. We will be joined by many of those who spoke today - it is clear that top of the agenda must be to discuss how we can go about setting up an organisation for parent advocates;
it works in Finland and it works in NYC.
Why organise this conference?
Guy Sheenan (the current Chair of BASW) Brid Featherstone (Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield) and Maggie Mellon (Vice Chair of BASW) opened the...
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