
About this podcast
Messy Social Work is a podcast for social workers, leaders, students and anyone interested in helping people navigate life's toughest challenges. Hosted by Rich Devine and Tim Fisher, the podcast explores child protection, systemic practice, relationships, leadership, trauma, family support and the realities of frontline social work. Each week, we speak with leading thinkers, practitioners, researchers and people with lived experience to explore what helps, what harms and what social work can…
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Messy Social Work
About this podcast
Messy Social Work is a podcast for social workers, leaders, students and anyone interested in helping people navigate life's toughest challenges. Hosted by Rich Devine and Tim Fisher, the podcast explores child protection, systemic practice, relationships, leadership, trauma, family support and the realities of frontline social work. Each week, we speak with leading thinkers, practitioners, researchers and people with lived experience to explore what helps, what harms and what social work can…
Recent episodes
- Rich and Tim relational skills, networks, theory and leadership in Family Group Decision Making3 Sept · 56 min
- Rich and Tim on Family Group Decision Making: Power, participation and family leadership30 Aug · 53 min
- Peter Block: relationships, resistance and the relevance of 'Flawless Consulting'19 Aug · 1 h 03 min
- Lee Crouch, a parent with lived experience of reunification: what social workers need to know31 Jul · 1 h 09 min
- Practice lessons from the death of Victoria Marten (Part 2)24 Jul · 57 min
- Practice lessons from the death of Victoria Marten17 Jul · 55 min
- Connecting Research: Why social workers turn a blind eye and avoid mental pain in child protection13 Jul · 37 min
- Rich and Tim on uncertainty, relationships and 14 lessons from practice7 Jul · 42 min
- Ex-undercover police officer on why the war on drugs is failing26 Jun · 1 h 15 min
- Gareth K Thomas, foster carer, on trauma informed parenting19 Jun · 1 h 10 min