(Swan brings together social care practitioners, service users, academics and students toward campaigning against managerialism and privatisation in the sector.)
1. How to support youth
practitioners to challenge Gender related violence event on 24th October. The event is free
and will be held at Amnesty HQ, London. It is based on
a EU project supporting the developing and evaluation of training to combat
Gender related violence and develop new resources for training youth
practitioners in the 4 EU countries.
The
conference combines presentations of evaluation of approaches taken in
developing training to support youth practitioners and interactive ideas
session thinking about how to support practitioners and develop training on
GRV - particularly for teachers, youth workers, social workers and health
professionals who work with young people. There is
further of information on the Gap Work Project event: http://sites.brunel.ac.uk/gap/conference Please
sign up and register here: https://gapwork.typeform.com/to/jPxf2q
Lunch
provided.
2. The Crisis in Mental Health Services, meeting Saturday 8th November
Another
reminder of this event involving front
line mental health social workers, survivors, survivor groups and
others. It is a day meeting (10:30am-4:30pm) at the John Barnes
Library, 275 Camden Road, N7 0JN - nearest tube is Caledonian Road. See previous post on this blog for details.
3. Ethics & Social Welfare Journal - Call for papers for a Special Issue on social justice. The
journal Ethics and Social Welfare has a special issue planned for 2016 with
guest editors Charlotte Williams and Donna McAuliffe which will be entitled ‘Engaging
with Outrage! Social work, social welfare and social justice'. They
will be asking for contributions from practitioners and service users as well
as from academics, so it's very relevant to SWAN,Best wishes & solidarity
SWAN London
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