Use of force against children in young offender institutions and secure training centres is up by nearly a third on a year ago, new government statistics reveal.
invites a range of leading social work thinkers, practitioners, and people with lived experience of services to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 crisis through lenses such as poverty, culture and class.
In June every year we celebrate Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Month and I was recently thinking about my second-year placement during my social work training where I was placed with the Educational Social Worker for the many different ethnic groups of Travellers in Oxfordshire County Council.
BASW England's Children and Families PPEG supports the Department for Education (DFE) position that calm and safe classrooms benefit students and teachers alike and create cohesive and supportive school communities. We are concerned however, by the DFE position that it will “crack down on the bad behaviour in 1 in 3 schools”.