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The Social Work Community Podcast

The Social Work Community Podcast

By: Community Care
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 This is a new podcast by Community Care!

The Social Work Community podcast is where social workers come to discuss the key issues affecting their profession. Whether you are a student or an experienced social worker - whether you are frontline or management, this podcast is for you. You will hear direct from social workers in your community about their successes and their challenges.Community Care Social Sciences
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  • #7 Ask The Experts: How do I transition from adults' to children's services?

    #7 Ask The Experts: How do I transition from adults' to children's services?
    Jun 24 2025
    Are you an adults’ social worker who is considering moving into children’s social work but don’t know how to make the transition?

    In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans as they respond to this question and highlight the invaluable skills that adult social workers can bring to children’s services. They also highlight how you can find that relevant job, and why the British Army could hold the key in that transition.

    Read the transcript here.

    Send us an email at: careersadvice@markallengroup.com

    You can follow all the Ask The Experts questions and responses on: www.thesocialworkcommunity.comRead past questions from social workers with a career question and read the responses here.
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    21 mins
  • 'War is all they've known': working with unaccompanied children

    'War is all they've known': working with unaccompanied children
    Jun 16 2025
    This special episode was recorded for Refugee Week 2025. Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor at Community Care, speaks to Zahraa Adam and Aimee Hinton about their work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). They have worked with UASC for 10 years and have a wealth of experience.

    Both Zahraa and Aimee are national social work award winners and Aimee holds a British Empire Medal for her contribution to social work.They are also age assessors and talk about how this assessment is carried out - this episode was recorded before the news that the Home Office agency, National Age Assessment Board, has been backed by the government despite BASW's opposition to it.

    Expect emotional stories, the reality of working in this specialism and surprisingly a lot of laughter! An episode not to be missed!


    If you want to find out more about working with UASC, you can register for a special webinar, Trauma-informed practice with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, run by Community Care Inform. You can find out more on our Events tab on Community Care's homepage.

    Read the transcript of this episode here.
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    59 mins
  • Social work around the world: West Bank & Gaza

    Social work around the world: West Bank & Gaza
    May 19 2025
    In this episode of the miniseries Social work around the world, Community Care's careers editor Sharmeen Ziauddin, speaks to Riad Arar, a social worker from Hebron, a city south of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.

    He describes what life is like for him since 7 October 2023. Increased military checkpoints make delivering services incredibly hard for social workers and healthcare professionals. The focus is on survival.

    Riad speaks about Gaza and the destruction there. But he also talks about hope and how that keeps him going, along with the solidarity of the international community.

    Listening with the transcript is advisable.

    His previous interview with Community Care can be accessed here:
    https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/04/25/how-the-israel-gaza-war-has-affected-social-workers-in-the-uk/
    Here is the transcript.
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    29 mins
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