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"Tabloid blame game is poor journalism"

By Emma Maier on June 30, 2009 1:40 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

By Emma Maier

To the uneducated eye, Take a Break magazine, with its busy, brightly coloured  pages and shock-horror headlines, could be mistaken for a tabloid newspaper supplement. But that perception couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, the magazine's editor John Dale doesn't think much of some tabloid reporting.

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Your campaign needs you...

By Emma Maier on June 25, 2009 7:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Our Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign has had a major breakthrough this week: top 'real-life' magazine Take a Break is supporting our work with its own campaign, titled "Thank God for Social Workers".

This is a bid deal - Take a Break is read by more than a million people a week. But to really help to turn around the public's opinion of social work we all need to act now to take advantage of this unique opportunity. There are six small things you can do to make a difference...

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The Monitor analyses media portrayals of social work in the UK. It exists to hold up examples of balanced, fair and accurate coverage and denounce and correct misinformation. The Monitor is a group blog written by journalists from Community Care, the UK magazine and website for everyone in social care. It was started in April 2009 as part of Community Care’s Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign, which calls for more accurate coverage of social work to improve public perceptions of the profession.

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