OFSTED published, earlier last week, the findings and recommendations of a research carried out in London schools about “Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education“. It is not (and doesn’t intend to be) a document with guidelines about what must be done, but a document with several interesting findings and recommendations that mightContinue reading “[007.19] Knife Crime”
Category Archives: Social Work
[056.18] clipping – for future memory (iii)
The last update, published today, of the guidance on female genital mutilation.
[053.18] what is readability and why it is important in social work practice
Readability is a methodology that allows evaluating the ease with which a document can be read and understood, presenting, as a result, a numerical value that allows us to verify and identify the level of education is necessary to fully understand these written documents. These formulas began to be developed in the United States (appearingContinue reading “[053.18] what is readability and why it is important in social work practice”
[052.18] Judge condemns ‘unacceptable’ lack of secure accommodation for children
maybe there would be more vacancies and more space for those who really need it.
[045.18] Readability in Social Work Intervention- A necessary discussion
how important the use readability formulas can be, to assure that the documents and pamphlets that we usually create to “help” our clients are really written for them and that it can be fully understood.
[035.18] Is it ever acceptable for social workers to ignore their clients?
This is a discussion that is taking place in the US following a post in a New York blog, where it is described as a social worker pretend to not know a client that ran into her (and family) in the street. Later on, in their next meeting, the social worker started to say thatContinue reading “[035.18] Is it ever acceptable for social workers to ignore their clients?”
[028.18] county lines criminal exploitation of children and adults
This document, produced by the Home Office, is almost 1 year old, but “unfortunately” it seems to be, now, even more relevant and important for social work practice.
Miguel Valerio 