Neil Ballantyne

The Canadian "Home Children": a case study in the digitisation of social work heritage material

Social work and social welfare services in the developed world have a rich, if relatively recent, history with origins in the social upheavals associated with rapid industrialization and urbanization during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is a regular flow of scholarly work analysing historical trends in the policies and practices of social welfare agencies.

Informal learning and the social web

An article in two parts exploring the possible uses of web 2.0 technologies to support the informal learning of social work and social care workers.