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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Can UK Social Workers truly have “the best interests of the child” at the heart of their work

Can UK Social Workers truly have “the best interests of the child” at the heart of their work


On Saturday 9th June this year, I went to the Birmingham Child Stealing by the State conference. I (kind of) gave a short presentation voicing some of the issues faced by adoptees (didn’t get to use my .pptx[1] ‘n’ got cut short to let John Hemming, MP go on :p). Whilst there, I heard it suggested that Social Work is a dying profession. This argument could be said to have merit, especially after the University of Southampton ended its degree programme in the subject, with a statement announcing:

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