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THEMES

 

  1. Embracing and Empowering Diversity
    • Indigenous social work
    • Multicultural social work
    • Bi-lingual and multi-lingual schools
    • Migrant and refugee communities
    • Recognising religious diversity
  1. Focusing on Better Outcomes for Children and Young People
    • Programmes for group work with children and their families
    • New skills, tools and strategies
    • Advancing children’s rights
    • Working with the whole family
    • Effective advocacy for children, young people and their families
  1. Social Work Practice and Development
    • Working on relationships: the non-voluntary and voluntary sectors
    • Celebrating the voice of the school social work practitioners
    • Knowing what works: evidence based practice – practice based evidence
    • Working with critical incidents
    • Effective qualifications and competency
    • Enhancing school social work as a specialism
  1. Management and Infrastructure
    • Collaborative management
    • Managing multi-disciplinary teams
    • Battling for resources
    • Mobilising stakeholders
  1. Policy in an interconnected world
    • Overcoming poverty
    • Political advocacy or political neutrality?
    • School social work and welfare state reforms
    • School social work and social justice?
    • International co-operation and development