Sarah Kean-Price talks to a carer in a children’s home about their first 3 weeks in a their new job. She finds that two days are never the same and the desire to work with the homeless has been a driving force from an early age.
There's no denying that working with autistic children can be challenging. But the rewards and, in fact, the challenge itself, can make a job working with autistic children one of the most positive career experiences you could choose.
With 1 in 10 school aged children suffering mental health problems, Charlotte Lowe discusses a model she has developed and implemented to help tackle the issue.
Keynote speaker, and British Care Award Winner, Ian Donaghy, questions why Social Care staff are so often referred to as ‘unskilled’ and highlights how the perception of Social Care needs to shift.
We talk to a special needs teacher in a challenging school working with children with behavioural problems. Sarah Kean-Price poses the questions and learns that education “needs to shift away from academia and towards building questioning, empowered, creative individuals”
Any kind of health and social care job can be yours with the relevant training. In this article we look at the qualifications you can achieve from the beginning of your social care career, and how to progress with continued professional development. Words by Sarah Gill.
