In this episode of The Messy Social Work Podcast, we sit down with Professor Donald Forrester, researcher and social worker.  We talk about why he thinks social workers are a bit like Nanny McPhee, why social work isn’t really ...

Rich and Tim sit down with Charlotte Clark, a practising frontline child protection social worker, to explore what it means to build trust in contexts where distrust runs deep. From navigating statutory power dynamics to managing conflict under...

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This week on Messy Social Work, Rich and Tim take a deep dive into Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex — a book that pulls no punches about how society packages, sells, and performs trauma. We explore McGarvey’s core arg...