The Social Work Community Podcast
This is a new podcast by Community Care! The Social Work Community podcast is where social workers come to discuss the key issues affecting their profession. Whether you are a student or an experienced social worker - whether you are frontline or management, this podcast is for you. You will hear direct from social workers in your community about their successes and their challenges.
Episodes
July 14, 2025 • 15 mins
In this episode, Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans offer advice to an international student social worker who is struggling with aligning her expectations about social work with the reality of securing a role for her ASYE.
Read the transcript here.
Send us an email at: careersadvice@markallengroup.com
You can follow all the Ask The Experts questions and responses on: www.thesocialworkcommunity.comRea...
Read the transcript here.
Send us an email at: careersadvice@markallengroup.com
You can follow all the Ask The Experts questions and responses on: www.thesocialworkcommunity.comRea...
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June 24, 2025 • 20 mins
Are you an adults’ social worker who is considering moving into children’s social work but don’t know how to make the transition?
In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans as they respond to this question and highlight the invaluable skills that adult social workers can bring to children’s services. They also highlight how you can find that relevant job, and why the British Army cou...
In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans as they respond to this question and highlight the invaluable skills that adult social workers can bring to children’s services. They also highlight how you can find that relevant job, and why the British Army cou...
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June 16, 2025 • 58 mins
This special episode was recorded for Refugee Week 2025. Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor at Community Care, speaks to Zahraa Adam and Aimee Hinton about their work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). They have worked with UASC for 10 years and have a wealth of experience.
Both Zahraa and Aimee are national social work award winners and Aimee holds a British Empire Medal for her contribution to social work.They are a...
Both Zahraa and Aimee are national social work award winners and Aimee holds a British Empire Medal for her contribution to social work.They are a...
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May 19, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode of the miniseries Social work around the world, Community Care's careers editor Sharmeen Ziauddin, speaks to Riad Arar, a social worker from Hebron, a city south of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.
He describes what life is like for him since 7 October 2023. Increased military checkpoints make delivering services incredibly hard for social workers and healthcare professionals. The focus is on survival...
He describes what life is like for him since 7 October 2023. Increased military checkpoints make delivering services incredibly hard for social workers and healthcare professionals. The focus is on survival...
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In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question we received asking how to secure a new job after receiving a negative reference, and where to access help.
Read the transcript here.This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care.
If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure you...
Read the transcript here.This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care.
If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure you...
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April 29, 2025 • 21 mins
Listen to Sharmeen Ziauddin's (career editor at Community Care) report from the One Voice Summit which was held at the London Guildhall on 24 & 25 April 2025.
The summit, was organised by Olympian Fatima Whitbread’s charitable organisation Fatima’s UK Campaign. The main aim of the charity is to ‘create a safer, happier, and healthier environment for children, ensuring they can read their full potential’.
The One Voice Summit brou...
The summit, was organised by Olympian Fatima Whitbread’s charitable organisation Fatima’s UK Campaign. The main aim of the charity is to ‘create a safer, happier, and healthier environment for children, ensuring they can read their full potential’.
The One Voice Summit brou...
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April 28, 2025 • 37 mins
In this episode of the Social Work Community Podcast, senior careers editor Kirsty Ayakwah speaks to specialist domestic abuse social worker Jenifer Lamadrid who started her career as an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate.
We find out why she made the move, what core skills she's been able to take from her former profession into social work and what keeps her in the sector.
Read the transcript of the interview here.
You can listen...
We find out why she made the move, what core skills she's been able to take from her former profession into social work and what keeps her in the sector.
Read the transcript of the interview here.
You can listen...
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April 16, 2025 • 36 mins
As part of the 'Social work around the world' series, this episode, hosted by careers editor Sharmeen Ziauddin, features two Australian social workers, who have practised in Australia and in England.
Kristin, worked in Queensland, Australia before moving to London 12 years ago. Tina similarly moved to London from Queensland but moved back and found herself stuck in Western Australia during the covid-19 pandemic, and ended up staying...
Kristin, worked in Queensland, Australia before moving to London 12 years ago. Tina similarly moved to London from Queensland but moved back and found herself stuck in Western Australia during the covid-19 pandemic, and ended up staying...
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In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question we received asking how an adults' social worker can secure a role working with refugees or co-ordinating disaster relief.
This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care. If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure your next s...
This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care. If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure your next s...
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March 19, 2025 • 21 mins
This is the second part of our conversation with Yohai Hakak, senior social work lecturer and MSc lead at Brunel University, London. If you haven't listened to the previous episode then do go back and have a listen!
The episode begins with Yohai talking about his PhD subject, going on to share his experience working as a mental health social worker back in Israel where he was born and raised.
He shares insights from his work at a ps...
The episode begins with Yohai talking about his PhD subject, going on to share his experience working as a mental health social worker back in Israel where he was born and raised.
He shares insights from his work at a ps...
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March 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Welcome to the first episode of the new miniseries "Social Work Around The World" from the The Social Work Community Podcast.
In the first episode, social work senior lecturer and MSc lead from Brunel University Yohai Hakak, talks to Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor at Community Care, about the research he is leading with his social work students.
The research looks into the migration of social workers to and from the UK. Yohai expl...
In the first episode, social work senior lecturer and MSc lead from Brunel University Yohai Hakak, talks to Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor at Community Care, about the research he is leading with his social work students.
The research looks into the migration of social workers to and from the UK. Yohai expl...
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March 12, 2025 • 23 mins
In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question we received asking: what are the pros and cons of working in a local authority versus a trust?
This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care. If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure your next social work role, we want to ...
This episode is hosted by Kirsty Ayakwah, senior careers editor at Community Care. If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure your next social work role, we want to ...
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February 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Welcome to Season Three. In this episode of the Social Work Community Podcast, senior careers editor Kirsty Ayakwah speaks to two social workers that started their careers in a different profession altogether.
Monisola Osibogun and Pam Shodeinde are both social workers in children’s services who both started their careers in law.
We find out why they transitioned from law to social work, what core skills they’ve been able to take fro...
Monisola Osibogun and Pam Shodeinde are both social workers in children’s services who both started their careers in law.
We find out why they transitioned from law to social work, what core skills they’ve been able to take fro...
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February 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Welcome to our new mini-series : ‘Ask The Experts’ where we put your career questions to three social work experts
In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question we received asking how to secure a new job after receiving a negative reference, navigating the profession as an international social worker and where to access help.
Click here to read the transcript.
This e...
In this episode, hear from Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question we received asking how to secure a new job after receiving a negative reference, navigating the profession as an international social worker and where to access help.
Click here to read the transcript.
This e...
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February 4, 2025 • 62 mins
We are back with another live episode – this time from adult social care at Wiltshire Council. The session took place at Community Care Live 2024.
This is a really special episode where you will hear direct from an adult who not only works within Wiltshire through Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living but also uses services that Wiltshire Council provide. This session is about how service users and practitioners can work together ...
This is a really special episode where you will hear direct from an adult who not only works within Wiltshire through Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living but also uses services that Wiltshire Council provide. This session is about how service users and practitioners can work together ...
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January 14, 2025 • 28 mins
A collaboration between Hampshire County Council and South Central Ambulance Service is helping to improve the quality of care for adult social workers that would otherwise be transported to hospital.
Hampshire County Council works to ensure that older adults avoid unnecessary journeys to the hospital thanks to a collaboration the council has formed with the South Central Ambulance Service or SCAS.
Through the collaboration, the Soci...
Hampshire County Council works to ensure that older adults avoid unnecessary journeys to the hospital thanks to a collaboration the council has formed with the South Central Ambulance Service or SCAS.
Through the collaboration, the Soci...
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December 23, 2024 • 18 mins
Welcome to the second episode of the new mini-series, 'Ask the Experts'. In this series our panel of experts will be answering questions sent in by readers.
Our experts are Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans, and the session is hosted by Ruth Hardy-Mullings, head of content at Community Care.
The dilema in this epsidoe is two-fold. How to keep motivated working in a child exploitation role and how to n...
Our experts are Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans, and the session is hosted by Ruth Hardy-Mullings, head of content at Community Care.
The dilema in this epsidoe is two-fold. How to keep motivated working in a child exploitation role and how to n...
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December 18, 2024 • 29 mins
It's that time of year🎄! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast!
The social work sector and face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care's 50th birthday year it made sense to discuss all this and more with some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team.
In this episode Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor, sat down with t...
The social work sector and face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care's 50th birthday year it made sense to discuss all this and more with some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team.
In this episode Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor, sat down with t...
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December 5, 2024 • 57 mins
This is a special episode which was recorded live at Community Care Live 2024.
In this thought-provoking and session, you will hear about the importance of a parent’s journey while considering their own child’s life story.
You will hear first-hand the experiences some parents have had and how practitioners can gain a better understanding of the impact positive life stories can have on both parents and children.Social worker Rachel Th...
In this thought-provoking and session, you will hear about the importance of a parent’s journey while considering their own child’s life story.
You will hear first-hand the experiences some parents have had and how practitioners can gain a better understanding of the impact positive life stories can have on both parents and children.Social worker Rachel Th...
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December 2, 2024 • 13 mins
The Anti-Racist Movement (ARM) - a collective of Black female social workers, academics and allied professionals got together for its second annual conference in London in November 2024 - it was ARM's second anniversary.
It was my first time at an ARM event and the day was filled with learning, sadness, frustration but also filled with laughter, celebration and most importantly, hope. And a lot of singing and dancing. Shantel Thomas...
It was my first time at an ARM event and the day was filled with learning, sadness, frustration but also filled with laughter, celebration and most importantly, hope. And a lot of singing and dancing. Shantel Thomas...
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