by Anoushka Morrison | May 21, 2020 | Blog, Society
More check-ins, more phone calls, more reassurance. Although lockdown has massively reduced the amount of time we social workers spend in the same room as families, it certainly hasn’t reduced the amount of contact. Building a strong relationship with a family is now...
by Dave MacFarlane | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Society
Having trained as a children and families social worker, I quickly learned that the key principal of social work is to work towards ‘doing yourself out of a job’. To achieve significant and long-lasting improvement for a struggling family, the social worker must...
by Frontline | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog, Latest blog, Society
“When things are not going well at home that starts to restrict so many aspects of a child’s life” Frontline fellow, Miles, wrote the following blog before the current lockdown, but his words have been at the forefront of our minds recently. For families who were...
by Dean Stamp | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog, Latest blog, Society
For all of us, life in lockdown is stressful. Living with uncertainty, worrying for the safety of yourself and loved ones, feeling trapped in a space we never imagined we would spend all day, every day. For those children currently living in a household with domestic...
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...
