Social work seminar: Maltreated children - weighing the risks of reunification and long-term care
Date: Thursday 15 March 2012
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm (refreshments from 5pm)
Venue: Room 6139, Frank Lampl building, Kingston Hill campus Kingston University
For information and registration contact: Jessica Baah-Achamfour, tel +44 (0)20 8725 0134 or email j.baah-achamfour@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Presented by Jim Wade, Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York
School of Social Work seminar series
The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences' School of Social Work is delighted to present a series of seminars at its Kingston Hill Campus. The seminars are delivered by leading national and international researchers, policy makers and commentators and focus on issues of topical and contemporary importance. The seminars are open to all staff and students at Kingston University and at St George’s, University of London, staff in local social services in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors, and to service users and carers and their organisations who assist with the School's social work education programmes.
This seminar focuses on maltreated children separated from their parents and who are either returned home or are provided with long-term alternative care. Important new findings will be shared which have emerged from a study that formed part of the Government’s safeguarding children research initiative.
Jim Wade has managed a range of large-scale research projects for government, research councils and charities over the past 20 years. He has published widely in the area of social work and related services for vulnerable groups of children and young people, including looked after children, care leavers, young runaways and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children