Residential child care

Care Leavers Reunited

Care leavers may feel isolated well into adulthood and some have difficulty talking about their childhood, even to close friends and family.

To help care leavers overcome these difficulties, the Care Leavers Association has recently invested £3,000 in the relaunch of Care Leavers Reunited.

Published in
Features
on 4 Jan 2010

Digitising the Golden Bridge exhibition

Preserving and re-presenting social work history with new media

Vintage map of Great Britain

Research enquiry into the history of social work and social welfare is a vital and ongoing scholarly activity, underpinning our understanding of the past, and illuminating present day practice and policy. 'Memory institutions' like libraries and museums have a key role to play in preserving, and providing researchers with access to, original cultural heritage material

Published in
Reports
on 21 Mar 2008

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