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Social Work Successes
This podcast has been designed to shine a big light on the amazing work that social work practitioners do with children and families every day. Each episode will feature a different practitioner sharing their 'success story'. Their stories will hopefully provide motivation and hope, as well some helpful tips that others may be able to use in their own practice.
You guys do an incredible job, I know that... you know that... but lets tell everyone else!
Episodes
14 episodes
Contextual Safeguarding
How can we reduce incidences of serious youth violence…? If you want the answers Clair Graham is your lady.Her passion and devotion for the young people she works with shines through in this episodeShe tells the story ...
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40:12
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Parent With Lived Experience
It was an honour and a privilege to be joined by Laura for Episode 12 of the podcast. Laura shares her experience and insight on what worked well in her relationship with her children’s social worker and what didn’t, and why. <...
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Episode 12
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32:32
Episode 11: Care Leaver Healing Journey
Episode 11 features Warren Ryans inspirational success story of his time in the care system, the impact his childhood experiences had on him, and his journey to overcoming depression and healing. We get into several issues facing th...
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Episode 11
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38:56
The Leaving Care Team
Joe Ottman shares his success story of building a relationship over two years with an adolescent boy, who had a challenging relationship with his mum, and struggled with his own mental health difficulties. Joe has been able to buil...
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Episode 10
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18:31
The Looked After Children's Team
What an absolute pleasure it was to be joined by the infamous Nanna Yabbey-Hagan for Episode 9. Nanna is Team Manager making waves in the social work world and is determined to help promote the necessary changes to the system. Part of thi...
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Episode 9
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17:20
The Family Court
I was lucky enough to be joined by Faye Edwards, who is a barrister in the family courts. We got into lots of key issues with the current ‘system’, and the 26 week timescales for proceedings, I know this episode will benefit so many...
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34:23
Maintaining Relationships with Parents in Court Proceedings
For this episode I was joined by Vicki Shevlin from Social Work Sorted. She shares a story from her time in practice when she needed to recommend removal of a child. As proceedings were paused she had to continue to carry out her statutory visi...
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Episode 7
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22:51
Adolescent Edge of Care Team
Tom Green, senior social worker, shares a success story from his time in the 'Edge of Care' team. He discusses the mentalization based approach he used, and how this really helped to improve the relationship between a mother and her son and pre...
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Episode 6
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37:41
The Dandelions- Part 2 ( Experts by Experience Group)
For this episode I was privileged to be joined by two parent experts who share their stories of their involvement with children’s services. They are part of ‘The Dandelions’, and work alongside practitioners to improve service delivery.
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Episode 5
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24:59
The Dandelions- Part 1 (Experts by Experience Group)
I am joined by some of the practitioners who have set up a working group with 'Parent Experts' who have previously had involvement with Children's Services. The group have called themselves 'The Dandelions' and have bee...
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30:52
Criminal Defence Lawyer
Iain Smith, who is criminal defence lawyer, shares his ‘success story’ of a young adult he was representing in the criminal court. This man had a significant attachment-based trauma history and was battling an addiction to drugs. Iain encourage...
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Episode 3
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39:27
Mother and Baby Assessment Unit
Jo Norris shares a 'success story' from the mother and baby assessment unit she works in. Parents are referred to their service, by the local authority, often for a 12 week assessment and at the end of this time they make a recommendation...
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Episode 2
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25:38