The Social World Podcast

The Social World Podcast

Thoughts on the social world with David Niven. Exploring the world in relation to social work, policy and care training. Analysis of individual cases and how they are covered across media.

Episodes

John Pizzuro, CEO RAVEN. Online Child Exploitation Expert

April 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Prior to Raven that John spent 25 years in the New Jersey State Police conducting, managing and leading investigations in Terrorism, Organized Crime, Narcotics, Trafficking, Child Exploitation, and Corruption. John spent his last six years as The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Commander where he led a team of 200 including 71 Law Enforcement Agencies.
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Disaster Social Work, Digital Support & Global Collaboration with Professor Johnston Wong (China)

April 3, 2025 • 44 mins
SWAB  is currently recruiting volunteers to assist in Myanmar following the devastating earthquake having trained social workers for over a decade to be first responders.
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Policing, Community Safety, and Public Trust with Clare Moody, Avon & Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner

March 21, 2025
Clare Moody is the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Avon and Somerset, with a career spanning trade unions, government advisory roles, and human rights advocacy. Now in her role as PCC, she is focused on improving neighborhood policing, reducing violent crime, and strengthening trust in law enforcement.
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Safeguarding, Social Work, and Multi-Agency Collaboration with Steve Myers

March 3, 2025 • 31 mins
AoCPP is a long established multi disciplinary charity focussing on child protection in a complex social world
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Leadership, Transparency, and Safeguarding . Chief Constable Sarah Crew

February 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Sarah was pivotal in the launch of Operation Soteria Bluestone, a transformative programme which sees police professionals work alongside leading UK academics to change the police response to rape and sexual assault.
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Prof Jonathan Singer Podcasting in Social Work Education

January 6, 2025 • 31 mins
This book is designed to assist social work academics and educators in enhancing their students' critical thinking, reflective capacity and skills in clinical and research settings through the integration of social work content podcasting.
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Isabelle Trowler CBE Chief Social Worker for Children

December 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Isabelle Trowler CBE Chief Social Worker for Children and Families took up the post in September 2013. She is well known for co-designing a practice framework for delivering child and family social work, which has influenced the children’s social care practice system across England.
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167 Christina Gabbitas Child Exploitation County Lines

November 11, 2024 • 32 mins
Christina has visited and spoken about her books at more than 400 schools with the police.
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Karim Rajwani International Financial Crime Expert

October 14, 2024 • 43 mins
We discuss the growth of these crimes as well as strategies adopted to support law enforcement. We talk about the huge need for more training, awareness raising accross the world.
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165 Larry Cameron International Human Traffiking expert

October 1, 2024
For the past three years Larry has worked as President & Founder of  Paradigm Intelligence Ltd, a global organisation that focuses on forensics, investigations, open-source intelligence, force protection and public safety.
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164 Anne Longfield CBE

September 23, 2024 • 36 mins
As Children’s Commissioner, Anne spent six years championing the rights and interests of children with those in power who make decisions about children’s lives, acting as children’s ‘eyes and ears’ in the corridors of power in Whitehall and Westminster.
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162 Jakub Sobik — Modern Slavery & Human Rights PEC

September 16, 2024 • 33 mins
Jakub Sobik is a communicator with over one and a half decade of experience of working on addressing modern slavery. He worked at Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organisation committed to ending of all forms of slavery across the world.
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161 Ann Marie Christian Independent Safeguarding Consultant

July 4, 2024 • 31 mins
She has worked for various local authoritieson on the front line, in management, Local Safeguarding Children Board Trainer, LADO, Safeguarding advisor to schools, school improvement advisor, Designated Safeguarding Lead trainer and Designated Safeguarding Lead coordinator.  She has a thorough knowledge of safeguarding in education.
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160 Dr Craig Newman, author, recovery from abuse programme.

May 31, 2024 • 33 mins
Craig is an author, founder and creator of ‘Get Out Get Love’ which is a proposed universal recovery model from experiences of abusive relationships shaped into both a self-help book and later developed self-delivered digital recovery programme.
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David Mandel International author and trainer on domestic violence

May 9, 2024
David is the founder of the Safe & Together Institute, which works with governments and NGOs across the globe, including Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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158 Global Social Work Agenda in A Precarious World

April 26, 2024 • 58 mins
It is the recording of the Global Social Work Talk from 28th March 2024. The Global Social Work TALK aimed to deliver “ideas to change the world”.
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157 Unseen, the Leading UK Anti-Slavery Charity

March 27, 2024 • 44 mins
Unseen , the Leading UK Anti-Slavery Charity. Our talk covers ground related to law enforcement, survivor's welfare, training, the world wide nature of the crimes, predictions and the under application of legislation. 
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156 Traffiking and Slavery. Follow the Money.

March 15, 2024
Traffiking and Slavery. Follow the Money. Such an important addition to the investigation and interruption of crimes that are conservatively put at costing over 150 Billion dollars a year. Karim Rajwani, B.A, F.C.A. C.P.A. ACAMS talks to me of his extensive history in several settings helping combat these scourges on our communities. We discuss the growth of these crimes as well as strategies adopted to support law enforcement. We ...
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155 Trapped in County Lines. Christina Gabbitas

February 29, 2024 • 28 mins
In this episode I speak to award-winning children's author, Christina Gabbitas, about her book 'Trapped in County Lines'. This is a follow up book to 'No More Knives or County Lines'. We discuss why books like this are important in how we educate young people and their parents about issues like county lines. Christina shares the work she does with her book alongside the police and in schools and speaks of the power of storytelling ...
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154 Safeguarding Communications, Miriam Rich

February 9, 2024 • 30 mins
The important process of keeping the public informed following a safeguarding event or tragedy. Truthfulness and sensitivity to all, especially victims and survivors.
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