Protecting our children.

This is a short story based on a real life incident that shows how the society still needs to cover a long long way before it can boast of being responsible and civil! This is a true incident and bears resemblance to people living, though names have been changed.

The social care industry has doubtless taken a battering over recent times through mistakes and negligence by just a tiny sample of individuals within the line of work and when sharks smell blood they move pretty quickly. Moral panic is high on a lot of media’s agenda and when it gets its teeth into something, the black and white press can turn any difficult to manage situation into a story of failure and thoughtlessness on the part of those responsible. So how about some good news?

Sociology is the mother of all social sciences.

A blight on the foster care system that doesn’t work and can be devastating to the kids that are placed into it.

Reasons to go back to school after college or a first degree.

In the world, we find a lot of unsatisfied needs, but a lot of people are working to help others…

The methamphetamine epidemic and how it relates to social work.

Here are a few questions that I had to answer for my social work midterm.