New Social Workers

See the link below for a wonderful critique of the dominant medicalised model of mental health in our western society.

Supervision: A good ole chat or a reflective tool? Conference and AGM from New Social Workers A Special Interest Group of the IASW Thursday May 31st, 2012 St. Andrews Resource Centre, 114 – 116 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

As a social worker, do you think of yourself as an intellectual?

Watch this excellent video made by social workers in Greece. They tell their stories of how they see austerity impacting on the lives of the people they work with. When you have watched it please comment and let us know what you think. Do you think social work is similar here in the issues we [...]

Read the letter below from Ginny Hanrahan, CORU. This is another opportunity for all new social workers to get their voices heard in matters that directly affect us. If we all don’t take the initiative and use opportunities like this to advocate for social workers on a national level then we have no one to blame but ourselves [...]

Following CORU’s Public Consultation on the time limits for renewal of registration, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council has now made the Rule “Time Limits for Payment of Annual Fees for Retention of Registration Rule 2012”. The Report on the public consultation process is also available on the CORU website at: http://www.coru.ie/uploads/Final%20Report%20Public%20Consultation%20for%20website%2021.03.12.pdf  

Happy World Social Work Day new social workers! Here are a few key links with thoughts on social work for the day that is in it.

Campaign for Children (hyperlink: www.campaignforchildren.ie) is a public education campaign, dedicated to raising awareness of children’s rights issues in Ireland.

The new social workers committee would like to say thanks to the BSW students in UCC for being very welcoming and engaged in the IASW talk that happened on Wednesday March 7th. There was a good discussion about the new social worker special interest group and issues that are specific to student and new social [...]

Social Care Ireland’s 2012 conference will be taking place in Kilkenny on the 28th and 29th March 2012 and will focus on the theme of ‘Taking stock’. The theme of the conference could not be more appropriate. For reasons we are all aware of, we face into an uncertain future and never was there a [...]