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We are committed to ensuring that reflective practice, with its focus on  relationships, takes its rightful place not only in social work practice, but   also in professional development and in the curriculum at all levels of  qualifying and post-qualifying training.

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News & Events

POSTPONEMENT - CfSWP Annual General Meeting - 15th May 2020

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Dissolving of the Centre

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Webinar recording: Relationship-based social work needs relationship-based systems

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE ARE RECRUITIING 2 NEW CO-EDITORS

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Olive Stevenson Prize for an Essay on Social Work Practice

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BASW 80-20's Call for interest - Models of best practice in Children's Social Care

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From our blog

Social Workers know about the lives and struggles of the kinds of people who lived and died in Grenfell Tower. Why aren’t we speaking out more?

Published June 20, 2017 by Andrew Cooper

Prof Andrew Cooper reflects on a potential turning point for social work

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Choked off: The College, BAAF, Kids Company – what does it all mean?

Published August 11, 2015 by Andrew Cooper

How to create social work organisations with an independent, critical edge and ensure their survival? This is the question now facing many of us as we contemplate the rather devastated landscape of social care that has unfolded over the last few weeks.

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Relationship based practice works – the evidence

Published February 19, 2015 by Andrew Cooper

Anyone might be in favour of ‘relationship based practice’ in the same way we are all against sin (hopefully). But when asked to produce evidence that it ‘works’ we become hesitant. Where exactly are the definitive, gold standard research studies?

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