News in the Department of Social Work and Social Care.
- Description
- Senior academics from the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham respond to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry..
- Date:
- Thursday 13th May 2021
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- 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
- Description
- Discharging untested patients to care homes was an "appalling error," says parliamentary report
- Date:
- Tuesday 1st September 2020
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- Description
- We need to recognise that beneath the headlines of the neglect of social care and the neglect of social care workers lies another neglect – that of older people
- Date:
- Tuesday 1st September 2020
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- Description
- Research suggests more than 100,000 unpaid carers in the UK have had to rely on food banks during the pandemic.
- Date:
- Thursday 18th June 2020
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- Description
- Although we've been clapping for carers throughout the pandemic, research has found that a number of them are silently facing unthinkable hardships
- Date:
- Thursday 18th June 2020
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- Description
- In the latest Complete University Guide 2021, Social Policy has been ranked third in the UK reflecting a steady climb for the department over the past few years.
- Date:
- Monday 15th June 2020
- Categories:
- Social Sciences