Tag Archives | Community Care’s 50th anniversary

Smiling colleagues conversing.

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The social work assistant who became ‘the glue that holds the team together’

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

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‘My first manager taught me the meaning of good supervision’

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‘A spokesperson for social work’: Ray Jones’s 50-year career in the sector

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‘My colleague made me believe that people can change for the better’

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

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‘She pushed me out of my comfort zone and challenged me to better myself’

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

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To my practice educator: ‘You helped me build resilience during challenging times’

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Community Care cover from 1997, depicting the 1997 Labour election win

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Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management

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Brid Featherstone wearing gray earrings and a gray blazer.

Children

‘We make mothers responsible, but don’t work with men’: Brid Featherstone on child protection

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David Howe smiling in front of a wall of purple flowers

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‘When I started, we’d be involved with a family for years’: David Howe on four decades in social work

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‘You were supportive in every way’: thank you to the manager who shaped my career

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Social work academic Olive Stevenson

Children, Workforce

‘A true doyen of social work’: the life and influence of Olive Stevenson

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Man sat on a wheelchair holding on to another hand of a person that is off frame.

Adults, Workforce

Social work across the decades: how the disability movement reshaped social care

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Pictured: (left) Pat Curtis smiling in a yellow cardigan and a blue dress with dots and Nicola Silk (right) in a pink dress with matching pink hair. Both are holding a drink and are seated on a boat in the sea.

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‘In memory of Pat, my social work mentor and inspiration’

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‘Your down-to-earth approach has made us feel like a family, not a service’

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No Racism sign being held

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Wayne Reid: how George Floyd’s murder inspired social work’s anti-racism ‘visionary’

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The support worker brothers going ‘above and beyond’ for families and colleagues

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