09:15 Zoom meeting will begin
09:30 Introduction to the day’s event
Professor Brian Littlechild PhD, Research Lead for Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, Vice President, European Research Institute for Social Work.
09:35 Welcome
Dr Tanya Moore, Principal Social Worker for Adult Care Services, Tendai Murowe, Head of Quality Assurance Practice, Children’s Services, and Karen Hastings, Consultant Social Worker, HPFT.
09:50 Social work from an international perspective - China
Hongbin Chen, Associate Professor, Vice Chair, Department of Social Work, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
Social work practice education. Hopes for what social work can do for China and ambitions for the future. SLIDES
10:20 Social work from an international perspective - Nigeria
C.O.Bose Makinde, Undergraduate Research Project Coordinator, Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Human Services, Babcock University, and Dr Oluwafikayomi O. Banjo PhD, Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Human Services, Babcock University.
Social work practice & education. Hopes for what social work can do for Nigeria and ambitions for the future.
10:50 Break
11:05 The essential contribution of social work with asylum seekers in Europe
Prof Shula Ramon, Professor of Social Inclusion and Wellbeing.
This will consider examples of social work with asylum seekers in the UK, North Greece and South Italy. This highlights the essential and positive contribution that social workers make to asylum seekers currently in the pandemic, and since the International migration crisis of 2015-2017.
SLIDES
11:50 Social work in the United Kingdom
Mark Harvey, Chief Social Worker for Adults at the Department of Health and Social Care.
12:15 A Career In Social Work
Prof Andrew Cooper is Professor Of Socialwork At The Tavistock Centre And University Of East London
Thoughts and reflections from a 30 year career in social work: issues that have emerged, the challenges now and future ambitions for social work
12:35 Close of the day’s event
Dr Tanya Moore, Tendai Murowe & Karen Hasting