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Social Work Sorted with Vicki Shevlin
Social Work Sorted is the leading podcast for Newly Qualified Social Workers in the UK. Hosted and produced by Vicki Shevlin, a social worker, trainer, consultant and founder of The Social Work Collective Academy.
This is a podcast for social workers and safeguarding professionals who care about skills, knowledge and practice. Fresh, relatable and realistic, Vicki brings her social work experience and unique training approach to bitesize episodes. Guest episodes feature critical conversations with experts from the sector.
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Social Work Sorted with Vicki Shevlin
Latest Episodes
From Youth Work to Safeguarding: Practice, Power and the So What Question, with Sean Monaghan from SaferNow
In this episode I'm joined by Sean Monaghan, founder of Safer Now, whose route into safeguarding practice started in a youth centre in North Birmingham and took him through community violence intervention, hospital-based trauma response, and a ...
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Why are home visits invisible from Statutory Guidance? and how does it affect social work
Home visits are the main site where social work happens. And yet they are barely mentioned in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 or any version of Working Together before it.In this episode I'm exploring why this matters, what H...
Should we still be talking about ACE's? What Social Workers Need to Know
ACEs - adverse childhood experiences - is one of the most referenced phrases in social work and safeguarding. But how many of us have actually questioned whether we are using it correctly?In this episode Vicki Shevlin explores why the re...
There are so many ways to be a Social Worker
In this episode I explore one of the most persistent and unhelpful narratives in social work; that there is a hierarchy of practice, and that unless you have done your time in child protection you have not done real social work.Drawing o...
Seeing the Invisible Child: Direct Work With Infants on Home Visits
In this episode I'm talking about one of the most consistent findings across serious case reviews; the invisible child and giving you one practical thing you can take into your next home visit immediately. Inspired by Harry Ferguson's new book ...