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The right to be you
- Authors:
- HAMILTON Karen, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Ealing Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- (11 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
A DVD made by people with learning disabilities was shown for the first time at the House of Commons on 29 September 2005. People with learning disabilities, from Ealing Consortium, commissioned and wrote the script for the DVD, and had the final say in the editing. They wanted other people with learning disabilities to be aware of their rights in areas such as housing, health, and travel. The DVD will also be used for staff training and informing the general public.
Social work education in Europe: a retrospective view
- Author:
- LYONS Karen Hamilton
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 31(1), 2019, pp.5-19.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The introduction of European funding in the 1980s played an important part in the establishment of networks contributing to the learning opportunities of social work students in the latter part of the twentieth century and more recently. While the number of British social work schools participating were in the minority, membership of networks contributed to the growth in knowledge about European frameworks and comparative social work and professional education. This has subsequently became formalised through edited (comparative) texts and research projects. Use of the term ‘social professionals’ highlights both the central importance of ‘the social’ and the diversity of educational and professional awards and occupational groups engaged in this broad field. The experience in networks introduced staff and students alike to different ways of thinking about the roles of the state and the family and of organising work in relation to a range of often similar social problems. British participation was sometimes hindered by language limitations, but European experience introduced new vocabulary such as subsidiarity, social pedagogy and social exclusion. It has also served to illustrate the narrowing of British social work; the high degree of regulation and the dichotomy between education and training evident in the UK. (Edited publisher abstract)