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A quick plug for Kent’s Child Care Conference – they’ve been running one of the best Community Care Conferences around for a number of years now, and they are doing one on Children Act this year.  It is open to lawyers, social workers and Guardians.  It has a really great line up – Isabelle Trowler, Tina Cook QC, Lorna Meyer QC,  Mrs Justice Theis and the excellent and inspiring Lucy Reed from Pink Tape.  The Riaz and beyond talk is particularly tempting, given just how much of a profile CSE now has and just how hard a problem it can be to solve.  And the “No Recourse to public funds” session in the afternoon is becoming even more important with the likely shift in Government policy about Syria and the numbers of people who will be coming into the UK.

I think that you can email Lauren.McCann@kent.gov.uk  about tickets if…

“I have always been captured by the notion that social work is the “art of the possible” and as social workers our task is to create opportunity and hope in the midst of uncertainty. This is really a challenge to creativity and soul. I have also realised in recent years that one way of making opportunities is to give voice to client stories through writing and introducing wider audiences to the experiences and issues we grapple with as we walk alongside our clients” (Vaughan- in Maidment & Milner, 2008, pp.1-2).

Sometimes a colleague might say to you “you should write that up”, sometimes it might be said by an assessor at your competency panel. A few years ago I attended a stunning case presentation by a social worker from a mental health service. It was an amazing piece of work, and as I listened to the presentation, in a building next door…