Welcome to Frontline’s podcast, where I’ll be chatting to social workers and sector experts about the key topics impacting them and the children and families they support. We’ll also share reflections and takeaways along the way, so you can con...

Hannah speaks to four guests about empowering children's voices in social work and why this is so needed. Everyone shares different insights on how social workers at all levels can listen to, capture and empower children’s voices. We hope you e...

Hannah speaks to four guests about sparking change in social work and why this is so needed. Everyone shares different insight on how social workers at all levels can lead change, whether it's small or big, in order to better support children a...

Alexa Robinson is working with a team in Middlesbrough and Teesside to launch the first Christmas Dinner initiative in the area, providing a positive Christmas experience for young care leavers. Tom and Alexa discuss the importance of this, rec...

Kelly Gittens is an experienced social worker and Frontline fellow who is passionate about working with and encouraging more men into the profession. As a social work academic, his research has an emphasis on fathers and domestic violence, and ...

Richard Smith is currently delivering the Future Pathways service, a targeted employability programme for young Londoners that supports them into sustained work, apprenticeships or education, which sits under Catch22’s employability division. R...

Tommy Gale is a social worker and Frontline fellow who specialises in cases involving child exploitation and edge of care concerns. He is also the founder of InsideUni, a non-profit social enterprise that aims to provide all students with the i...

Basheba Baptiste is a 25-year-old creative producer and the founder of Care to Culture - a non-for-profit that uses the creative arts to support children and young people in the social care and youth justice systems. As a care leaver herself, B...

Welcome back to Stories of Change! In our first episode of series four, we speak to Lisa Hackett, Frontline’s chief social worker. With 26 years of experience in the sector in a variety of roles, Lisa recounts stories from over the years that h...

From children's residential care home key worker to Assistant Director for Children and Families at North Yorkshire County Council, Martin Kelly OBE has a wealth of experience working in the social work sector. In 2015,  he led the design ...

Raised in Alabama in the United States, Nicole moved to the UK in 1990s. She started her career at a rape crisis centre whilst at university, and has worked in domestic abuse, on the front line and for charities, for over two decades since....

Wayne Reid is an anti-racism visionary for the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Over the last year, in light of the murder of George Floyd, and resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Wayne has taken action to address racism...

Mary Jackson is Frontline's new Chief Executive. Mary describes her path to the leadership position she is in today as not an obvious one. As a teen growing up in Wellington, New Zealand, she studied photography. However she has always been dri...

As a young child, Adam was persuaded to participate in the arts. The experience was life changing for him, and had a big impact on his personal development, confidence and self-esteem. Doors began to open which he never knew existed. Because of...

Mark Riddell is the National Implementation Adviser for Care Leavers at the Department for Education. A care leaver himself, Mark spent years working with a range of organisations to campaign for better support for care leavers before training ...

As practitioners and researchers, Jahnine Davis and Nick Marsh found that time and time again, the experiences of minoritised and marginalised children and young people remained absent and unaddressed in research, policy and practice. After yea...

Over seven years ago, Frontline Chief Executive, Josh MacAlister, stepped out of the classroom, set up and launched Frontline. As a teacher, he realised how important it was for children to have a safe and stable home life, and the impact that ...

Having befriended a homeless man at his local tube station, Alex Stephany asked himself, “What can I do to empower this man to make the change he wants to see for himself?” In this episode, you'll hear how this relationship led him to found Bea...

In this episode, we spoke to Frontline fellow and Principal Social Worker, Daniel Comach. Having been in the profession for 18 years, Daniel is passionate about changing the system so social work, and social workers, can be the best it and they...

In this episode, we spoke to Darren Laville, founder and CEO of The Epiphany People. Placing families at the heart of all their work, The Epiphany People was set up in 2018 to support families with the emerging challenges of bringing up childre...

In this episode, we spoke to Katie Cosgrave, Senior Programme Manager at youth leadership charity RECLAIM. Like Frontline, RECLAIM exists to break down barriers in society for children who face disadvantage. Katie is proud to be working class, ...

In this episode, we spoke to Liam Hackett, activist, and award-winning founder and CEO of Ditch the Label. After 10 years of ignoring it, Liam, alone in his bedroom, took to the internet to post about his experiences of being verbally and physi...

In this episode, we speak to Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, a former teacher, care leaver, and founder and Director of Lighthouse. Lighthouse is a social enterprise pioneering a new model of children’s home. The new approach aims to radically improve o...

In this episode, we speak to bestselling author and mental health campaigner, Rachel Kelly. In her early thirties, Rachel was diagnosed with severe depression after suffering two major depressive episodes. They have since become defining events...

In this episode, we speak to former British diplomat and Director of charity Inter Mediate, Jonathan Powell. Beth and Jonathan talk about how leadership is required from two very different perspectives; politics and international conflict, and ...