The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 3, 2024

Title: “Uniting for Change: Addressing the Grand Challenges for Social Work in the 21st Century” Date: 22 March 2024 Venue: Virtual, Time: 9.00 am – 11.00 am (CT) Call for abstracts: Organizers invite submissions from social work students across the globe on any of the conference themes. Submissions can be fieldwork projects, case studies, innovative practice models, and research papers.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. Once, when I was a student in graduate school, I was waiting for a flight from North Carolina to Michigan to visit some family members.

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2024

Proposals to reduce funding for services from bin collections to social care, arts and libraries leave many worried for the future It wasn’t long ago that the people of Birmingham were being told the city was on the brink of a “golden decade”, with record levels of investment off the back of events including the Commonwealth Games and the arrival of HS2.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 3, 2024

I am late sharing my thoughts on Black History Month this year because I have been concentrating on our upcoming Social Work Day on the Hill and Student Advocacy Days. Each year, I look for history that helps me understand the current circumstances of black people in America. Two years ago, I had an awakening after reading W. E. B. DuBois’s Black Reconstruction America.

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2024

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2024

News that child asylum seekers were told to guess who would be placed in foster care is distressing and dystopian, say a group of organisations including the Refugee Council One of the 13 reports by the independent borders inspectorate finally released last week details a series of disturbing findings about unaccompanied children seeking asylum, including the appalling revelation that they were forced to play a game which involved them guessing who would be the next one to be placed in foster ca

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