by Jonny Hoyle | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog, Society
When I was nine, I was almost adopted. The social worker came to see me and talk to me about adoption and what that meant. He talked to me about the process, and that we would need to go to court and there would be a judge. He didn’t know me well enough to know...
by Sarah Vallis | Dec 20, 2019 | Blog, Society
Jonny is an Assistant Team Manager in North Yorkshire County Council’s leaving care team. In 2018 he completed the Firstline programme where he took part in a number of residential modules, workshops and extensive coaching to develop his leadership skills. As a care...
by Sarah Vallis | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog, Society
The blog was first published on the Centre for Public Impact’s website. Over the last few months, I’ve been one of the social workers working with CPI, Frontline and Buurtzorg Britain & Ireland to explore new ways of thinking about social care. We’ve been...
by M | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, Society
My name is M, I am 17 years old and I live in Birmingham. I wish that could be it, as it is for lots of other young people. But for me there is more to the story. I left Iraq when I was 15 and arrived in this country as an unaccompanied asylum seeker, without my...
by Margaret Mulowska | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog, Fellowship, Society
Questions that are met with a pause are often the most useful. A pause suggests that a person is thinking about something in a different way than before. I often ask parents “what stories do you tell about your childhood?” This encourages them to think about their...
by Richard Les | Mar 13, 2019 | Society, News Article
Frontline, which runs the largest social work training programme in the country, is seeking a university or an equivalent academic institution to act as a validating partner for the Frontline programme. The tender, published today, is for a university or an equivalent...
