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A new review of Social Work Education and Frontline pilot: significant and worrying developments

The government has announced an independent review on the education of social workers. This seems to be concerned particularly with education in relation to adult service users. See below the official announcement and the links which it provides. David Croisdale-Appleby who is to Chair the review, is Chair of Skills For Care the national organization concerned with the social care workforce. His experience relates to social care rather than social work.

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Save Dudley Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

Please support us to reverse the decision to close down the LAAC (Looked After and Adopted Children) Psychology Service at Dudley CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). This service provides dedicated therapeutic support for looked after and adopted children in the Dudley borough as well as support, consultation and training to parents, foster carers, social workers and other professionals.

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Listening to survivors: child abuse and the establishment

Below, Liz Davies of London Metropolitan University writes on organised crime against children and investigations following Tom Watson MP’s Prime Minister’s Question and important links to social media as the main source of information about current investigations. Liz encourages you to add supportive comments to the sites listed below. You can contact Liz with any information you have which relates to these enquiries or any questions. She is working with Tom Watson’s small team which is collating the evidence coming to light.

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  2. In the neo-liberal laboratory: Birmingham’s Children in care and Social Impact Bonds
  3. How should social workers support children and families facing destitution and cuts to their benefits?
  4. ‘Social work and me’ by Julia Warrener
  5. Movement for an Adoption Apology
  6. Birmingham’s children’s homes: the moral case for closure?
  7. Statement on the closure of the Independent Living Fund
  8. Raymondo's Work Capability Assessment Survival Tips
  9. The Truth Behind Welfare Reforms – direct from the USA!
  10. Occupy LSX in London gives hope that another world is possible
  11. Cuts and reorganization: the reality of progressive mental health day services
  12. Social workers strike against austerity
  13. After SWAN Conference 2011: Why UNISON needs to lead the fightback
  14. CASE CON radical social work collective
  15. SWAN leads campaign against racist cuts

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