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News in the Department of Social Work and Social Care. 

US social worker helps counterparts improve services in the UK

Description
A Chicago social worker is working with University of Birmingham experts and her British professional counterparts to help people using social services in Britain's second city.
Date:
Thursday 8th April 2021
Categories:
International, Research, Social Sciences

Food banks are no solution to poverty

Description
Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US.
Date:
Thursday 28th March 2019
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Factors affecting the changing role of GP clinicians in community hospitals

Description
A qualitative interview study in England looking at factors affecting the changing role of GP clinicians in community hospitals.
Date:
Monday 11th March 2019
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

US social worker helps counterparts improve services in the UK

Description
A Chicago social worker is working with University of Birmingham experts and her British professional counterparts to help people using social services in Britain's second city.
Date:
Thursday 10th January 2019
Categories:
International, Research, Social Sciences

Charities aren't doing enough to determine if they're really making a difference

Description
Paul Montgomery discusses the difficulties of evaluating the activities of charitable organisations in this article in 'The Conversation'
Date:
Monday 18th June 2018
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Thoughts on the Foster Care Review

Description
Simon Haworth, Teaching Fellow Department of Social Care and Social Work writes for the Social Sciences Birmingham blog:
Date:
Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Mental Health Awareness Week: address your stress

Description
Mental health is a topic that has become more visible over the past decade, in part due to the increasing open discussions by those in the public eye and social movements, such as Time to Change.
Date:
Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Birmingham academic helps inform inquiry into social care funding

Description
On Saturday 28 April, Professor of Health and Social Care Jon Glasby spoke the Citizens' Assembly on Social Care
Date:
Tuesday 8th May 2018
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences
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