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Learn on the go: the Community Care podcast

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Learn on the go is the Community Care Inform podcast where practitioners, trainers, consultants, academics and researchers discuss practice, research, and theories and what they mean for social workers. Listening to episodes is a convenient way to learn and refresh your knowledge when you don’t have much time to read or prefer other ways of getting information and reflecting on your practice. We’ve been recording Learn on the go on an ad hoc basis since 2017. Over these eight years our podcast audience has grown, and in 2025 we made the decision to start recording Learn on the go in seasons. W...

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Sibling sexual abuse 13.07.2021 27:51

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean for your practice. This episode is about sibling sexual abuse. We spoke to Anna Glinski, deputy director, knowledge and practice development, at the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (the CSA Centre, for short) and Stuart Allardyce, a director of t...

Fear in social work practice 25.06.2020 23:35

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice. This episode in our mini series about practice during the coronavirus pandemic is about fear and social work. It covers how fear can impact on practice, what helps social workers maintain concerns at a manageable level, support from manag...

Contextual safeguarding 04.06.2020 38:08

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean for your practice. This episode is on contextual safeguarding. We talk about what the approach entails, what it looks like in practice, and also discuss how work with young people been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Discussing these questions are Dr Ca...

Child to parent violence 31.10.2019 32:55

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice. This episode is about child and adolescent to parent abuse. It covers how this form of abuse is defined, what is known about when and why it occurs, how social workers can support families, both when there are specific programmes in place...

Looked-after children and self-harm 24.05.2019 33:42

Trigger warning This content discusses issues of self-harm, mental health and suicide. Please take the time to consider your own mental health, and seek support if you need it. In the UK, the Samaritans can be reached for free on 116 123. Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice....

Child sexual abuse: using family work approaches 15.03.2019 29:15

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and theories mean to your practice. In this episode, we discuss intrafamilial child sexual abuse and how social workers can use techniques from family therapy ("family work") to work with the family together and help with the crisis in the family and issues around communication an...

Parents with learning disabilities 29.01.2019 46:23

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice. In this episode, we discuss working with parents with learning disabilities. As part of the episode, we went to a peer support group for parents run by the Elfrida Society, a charity which provides a specialist advocacy service for people...

Strengths-based practice 14.02.2018 28:21

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice. In this episode, we discuss strengths-based practice: what it is, how it can be used in social work and some of the criticisms of it. The experts Lyn Romeo Chief social worker for adults. Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts Senior lecturer in social...

Adult attachment 11.09.2017 38:33

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research findings mean to your practice. In the second episode of the series, we asked two experts to summarise the research on adult attachment, dementia and older people, and explain what social workers can learn from it. The experts David Shemmings is professor of child protection research at the Univer...