United Kingdom
The UK has a range of mass media, including national and regional newspapers, national and regional television channels. Only television and radio are legally obliged to provide impartial reporting.
All national newspapers have websites, and a growing number of people looks up websites rather than read the whole paper. Most popular newspapers are tabloids – focus on sensational reporting and celebrities gossip. There are five tabloids, covering left and right of centre political ideologies, mostly in private ownership.
Coverage of social work related items takes place systematically, and follows the particular media style and ideology. Most people get their information about social work from the media of their choice.
Articles
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Child abuse work
17 August 2018 - Girl, 3, 'needed emergency surgery after FGM in London' (The Guardian)
17 August 2018 - Evening Standard comment: Stopping female genital mutilation remains vital (The Guardian)
20 July 2018 - The Guardian view on police and child spies: ends don’t always justify the means (The Guardian)
12 April 2018 - Ex-Rochdale council leader lied to us, child abuse inquiry finds (The Guardian)
4 November 2017 - Families of child sexual abuse victims threaten action against UK government (The Guardian)
31 October 2017 - Child sexual abuse victims to be granted compensation following criticism (the Guardian)
14 September 2017 - Revised UK child sexual 'consent' rules provoke backlash (The Guardian)
2 September 2017 - Sarah Champion: Labour's 'floppy left' falls silent when issues touch on race (The Guardian)
Investigating the extent to which institutions have failed to protect children from sexual abuse (IICSA)
14 August 2017 - Half of UK girls are bullied on social media, says survey (The Guardian)
9 August 2017 - Eighteen people found guilty over Newcastle sex grooming network (The Guardian)
16 May 2017 - Molly Windsor, star of Rochdale abuse drama Three Girls: 'It made me really angry' (The Guardian)
15 May 2017 - I exposed the Rochdale scandal – Three Girls should be a catalyst for progress (The Guardian)
20 April 2017 - Child victims of sexual abuse in families let down by system: report (The Guardian)
21 March 2017 - The ‘troubled’ case of Rotherham (Policy Press - University of Bristol)
9 December 2016 - Police to investigate MP Michelle Thomson’s rape allegation (The Guardian)
16 November 2016 - Child abuse inquiry facing 'credibility crisis', Labour says (The Guardian)
4 November 2016 - Rotherham: eight men jailed for sexually exploiting teenage girls (The Guardian)
The article describes the end of the cycle of planned sexual abuse of a number of young white girls by Pakistani men, most of them married and fathers, which began more than decade ago and was stopped after a major inquiry and government direct intervention in late 2014 and early 2015. Although the woman who was raped age 13 and 14 by most of the men who were the defendants in this trial was interviewed by a Guardian journalist when the trial ended, her interview was not judged important enough to appear in the online version of the Guardian. She states that she intends now to enter university and study social work, a statement which vindicates the profession despite the lack of good enough social work given to her when she was raped and dared to complain about it, because she came from a supportive middle class family, according to her. Hopefully the local social workers and the profession as a whole have learned from the Rotherham scandal, and will offer more suitable support to victims of sexual abuse in the future.2 November 2016 - Transparency vital to child abuse inquiry, Yvette Cooper warns chair (The Guardian)
31 October 2016 - Creating child poverty for a whole new generation. Take a bow, Theresa May (The Guardian)
28 October 2016 - Child abuse inquiry hit by sexual assault claim (The Guardian)
21 October 2016 - 'We have to deliver justice': the man who fought for the survivors of Shirley Oaks (The Guardian)
1 October 2016 - Act on children's mental ill health or risk national crisis, warns expert (The Guardian)
30 September 2016 - Child sex abuse inquiry: victims anxious after counsels' resignations (The Guardian)
24 March 2016 - Children in Lambeth council's care 'abused on industrial scale' (The Guardian)
Moral panics and the state (PDF - 0.04 Mb)
Russell Evans: Historical Analysis of Media Representation of Safeguarding Children Social Work
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Domestic violence work
Articles
24 October 2018 - This grand plan to help domestic abuse victims looks set to fail (The Guardian)
16 October 2018 - Teaching women finanical capacility is the first step to fight domestic violence (The Guardian)
15 October 2018 - Parents "weaponising" domestic violence orders, claims charity (The Guardian)
20 July 2018 - There is no honour in ‘honour killings’, only male shame (The Guardian)
11 March 2018 - This domestic abuse case might change the way women live (The Guardian)
1 March 2018 - Son overjoyed mother can appeal against murder conviction (BBC)
24 November 2017 - Texts from student who killed herself shared across campuses (The Guardian)
27 March 2017 - Attorney general urged to review release of man who beat wife with cricket bat (The Guardian)
20 February 2017 - Violence in young people’s relationships – Reflections on two serious case reviews (Safe Lives)
17 February 2017 - Theresa May: I want to transform how we think about domestic violence (The Guardian)
17 February 2017 - Domestic abuse victims wait nearly two years for compensation (The Guardian)
7 February 2017 - Putin approves legal change that decriminalises some domestic violence (The Guardian)
6 September 2016 - Violent crimes against women in England and Wales reach record high (The Guardian)
26 July 2016 - A cycle of violence: when a woman’s murder is called ‘understandable’ (The Guardian)
1 April 2016 - Briton who made wife live like slave is first to be jailed for domestic servitude (The Guardian)
29 December 2015 - Domestic abuse: Everything you need to know about the new psychological abuse law (The Independent)
The article highlights the new UK law on treating coercive control in intimate relationship as a criminal offence. This brings with it a new response to an old issue, but with a twist, as it includes social media messages as a potential coercive control material, and in allowing it to be reported for up to a two year period. It is argued that the recent domestic violence scenario in the Archers, a popular radio 4 programme on farming community, played a part in convincing the government to bring in this new piece of legislation. -
Health care and its impact
22 October 2018 - Talking about death isn’t easy, but doctors have to get better (The Guardian)
25 September 2018 - 'Treated like pariahs': contaminated blood victims tell their stories (The Guardian)
3 August 2018 - UK children with ADHD wait up to two years for diagnosis, say experts (The Guardian)
- Impact of political conflict on social work
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Long term impact of psychological stress
16 July 2017 - Stressful experiences can age brain 'by years', Alzheimer's experts hear (The Guardian)
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Non-famlial abuse
9 November 2108 - Girl, 16, arrested over fatal south-east London stabbing (The Guardian)
21 October 2018 - Questions about the abusers' race must be tackled in calm climate (PressReader.com)
19 October 2018 - Huddersfield grooming: Twenty guilty of campaign of rape and abuse (The BBC)
6 October 2018 - Don’t call it sexual assault. Say ‘redistribution of sex’ instead (PressReader)
4 October 2018 - Man caught on CCTV punching woman outside Paris cafe jailed (The Guardian)
25 September 2018 - We must not sweep ‘weak’ rape cases back under the carpet (The Guardian)
25 September 2018 - Paris man jailed for three months for slapping woman's bottom (The Guardian)
16 August 2018 - Abuse victims increasingly denied right to stay in UK (The Guardian)
15 August 2018 - Thirty men charged with sexually abusing girls in West Yorkshire (The Guardian)
24 November 2017 - Scores of women say top UK surgeon left them with traumatic complications (The Guardian)
24 August 2017 - Nurses and social workers trained to identify victims of human trafficking and slavery (The Evening Standard)
14 January 2017 - I was hugging Jill as she died and told her 'Your battle is over, go in peace': A raw first interview with the widower of Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward who changed the way sex attack victims are treated (Mail Online)
6 January 2017 - Jill Saward’s work was vital – but we still misunderstand the trauma of rape (The Guardian)
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Social care and its impact
10 November 2018 - 'I missed my brother and sister so much': how the care system fails children (The Guardian)
10 November 2018 - Vulnerable children treated ‘like cattle’ in care home system (The Guardian)
31 July 2018 - Fears cash-strapped council may cut services for vulnerable children (The Guardian)
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Social problems
14 November 2018 - It took a UN envoy to hear how austerity is destroying lives (The Guardian)
11 November 2018 - Top Tory says May 'handing power to EU' in Brexid deal (PressReader.com)
28 October 2018 - We can’t all be winners as a new welfare state emerges (The Guardian)
23 October 2018 - Children's services are at breaking point, experts say (The Guardian)
23 October 2018 - A budget to end austerity? Only if Hammond makes the rich pay (The Guardian)
21 October 2018 - We risk losing slices of our past if we don’t root out racism in our universities (The Guardian)
19 October 2018 - The benefits ‘freeze’ is robbing our poorest families. Where’s the outrage? (The Guardian)
18 October 2018 - When council leaders petition No 10 to end austerity, things are bad (The Guardian)
16 October 2018 - Women driven to prostitution over universal credit, says Frank Field (The Times)
6 October 2018 - Living with disability and denied benefits, a former civil servant speaks out (4 News)
6 October 2018 - 1,600 scientists rebuke Cern physicist over gender bias (The Guardian)
5 October 2018 - Crime soars on Britain's railways with sexual offences up 16% (The Guardian)
31 August 2018 - Even after Grenfell, tower block residents are being ignored (The Guardian)
27 August 2018 - LGBT activists criticise minister for women over trans comments (The Guardian)
26 August 2018 - UK's biggest payday lender Wonga 'on the brink of collapse' (The Guardian)
18 August 2018 - Silent crisis of inadequate councils caring for thousands of children (The Guardian)
17 August 2018 - Surge in exclusions of autistic pupils set to be halted after landmark legal ruling (The Guardian)
15 August 2018 - Government accused of 'total failure' to widen elite university access (The Guardian)
7 August 2018 - Paul Gray: On universal credit, ministers were wrong to ignore us (The Telegraph)
7 August 2018 - The Wetherspoon ‘ban’ on homeless people reveals our rotten social order (The Guardian)
4 August 2018 - NHS told: give trans patients equal access to fertility service (The Guardian)
5 July 2018 - McVey faces clamour to quit after misleading parliament (PressReader)
25 June 2018 - Activists urge rethink of letting trans women in female-only pond (The Guardian)
20 June 2018 - Gosport hospital: more than 450 patients died due to opioid drugs policy (The Guardian)
15 June 2018 - Universal credit savaged by public spending watchdog (The Guardian)
15 June 2018 - Elderly social care should be 'free at point of need', says report (The Guardian)
26 May 2018 - Bristol University faces growing anger after student suicides (The Guardian)
25 May 2018 - 'They sat and watched them turn to ashes': Grenfell anger spills out (The Guardian)
14 May 2018 - Grenfell: the 72 victims, their lives, loves and losses (The Guardian)
19 April 2018 - Stephen Lawrence: his death changed British law forever but trust in police has yet to recover (The Conversation)
12 April 2018 - Finland has found the answer to homelessness. It couldn’t be simpler (The Guardian)
5 April 2018 - Man stabbed to death in Hackney in London's latest killing (The Guardian)
4 April 2018 - Labour’s mission is to transform Britain. Don’t let bigotry get in the way (The Guardian)
4 April 2018 - The Guardian view on knife crime: policing alone won’t cut it (The Guardian)
3 April 2018 - Second teenager in 24 hours dies amid calls to tackle London violence (The Guardian)
2 April 2018 - Teachers warn of growing poverty crisis in British schools (The Guardian)
1 April 2018 - Thousands of special needs children paying for education funding crisis – union (Country Gazette)
22 March 2018 - Theresa May refuses to intervene over man's £54,000 NHS cancer bill (The Guardian)
1 March 2018 - Skunk is causing misery – criminalisation isn’t working (The Guardian)
24 January 2018 - Most children in UK's poorest areas now growing up in poverty (The Guardian)
16 December 2017 - Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help (The Guardian)
15 December 2017 - Loneliness heightened by social media, Jo Cox's sister says (The Guardian). See also: Loneliness action (CoOp)
17 January 2018 - Woman sues man acquitted of rape in Scottish court trial (The Guardian)
5 December 2017 - Tory MP cries at universal credit impact speech from Frank Field (The Guardian)
4 December 2017 - UK government warned over sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty (The Guardian)
3 December 2017 - Theresa May faces new crisis after mass walkout over social policy (The Guardian)
2 December 2017 - The Observer view on Theresa May’s promise to create a meritocracy (The Guardian)
29 November 2017 - UK fuel poverty to last a lifetime, report says (The Guardian)
28 November 2017 - A walk around the edge of the UK making a noise about mental health (Walk a Mile in My Shoes)
27 November 2017 - Universal Credits (Walk a Mile in My Shoes)
12 November 2017 - People left without heating due to spending cuts, says fuel poverty group (The Guardian)
11 November 2017 - London Tory council to charge tower block residents £4,000 to fit sprinklers (The Guardian)
5 November 2017 - They voted for Brexit in a cry of pain – what happened to the left-behind? (The Guardian)
5 November 2017 - Tory MPs demand bailout for care agencies in £400m backpay crisis (The Guardian)
17 September 2017 - Revealed: universal credit sends rent arrears soaring (The Guardian)
16 September 2017 - Police watchdog calls for Met officer in custody death inquiry to be suspended (The Guardian)
9 September 2017 - Two million UK families face £50-a-week cut in income (The Guardian)
9 September 2017 - Squeeze on living standards is down to welfare cuts, not the fall in the pound (The Guardian)
30 August 2017 - Social workers on austerity: ‘We can’t stop cases escalating like we used to’ (The Guardian)
14 August 2017 - Vulnerable children in England 'falling through cracks' in social services (The Guardian)
12 August 2017 - Health inequality gap ‘is still growing’ in England, new Department of Health data shows (The Guardian)
8 August 2017 - The end of child poverty? Not with the Tories in power (The Guardian)
27 July 2017 - Poverty 'driving people to choose between eating or keeping clean' (The Guardian)
25 July 2017 - Half of children needing summer food bank support are in primary school (The Guardian)
6 July 2017 - As new children's minister I want to empower social workers (The Guardian)
24 June 2017 - Housing crisis threatens a million families with eviction by 2020 (The Guardian)
23 June 2017 - Grenfell tenants 'not exempt from bedroom tax or benefit cap' (The Guardian)
18 June 2017 - Grenfell Tower’s residents were failed long before fire broke out (The Guardian). The Grenfell Tower fire, the high toll of people dying in it, and the huge number of those left traumatised and homeless has attracted a lot of media attention in UK newspapers and television this week. Andrew Rawnsley’s article in The Guardian of 18 June 2017 highlights the thus far failed official response at governmental level, and the impact of inequality in the UK. However, his article and those of others fail to comment on the role of the local authority. In the aftermath of this horrific fire, once the volunteers will go home and the Red Cross will stop giving counselling to the victims, it will be social workers of the Kensington and Chelsea local authority who will work with the residents who were its clients before the fire, and the many who will become its clients now. They will be expected to do so regardless of the current insufficient number of local authority social workers and the lack of training and encouragement to engage in community work among UK social workers.
1 June 2017 - The myths about money that British voters should reject (The Guardian). The article highlights myths about welfare spending in the UK, in comparison to other European countries.
20 May 2017 - Stop and search won’t help to beat knife crime, Met chief is told (The Guardian)
18 May 2017 - I lived on ‘Benefits Street’ . Now I have hope – thanks to Labour’s fearless plan (The Guardian)
17 May 2017 - Tory manifesto: more elderly people will have to pay for own social care (The Guardian)
15 May 2017 - Birmingham: 'Each year the benefit system is more heartless' (The Guardian)
15 May 2017 - Debt fears grow as county court judgments soar by 35% (The Guardian)
15 May 2017 - In confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people (The Guardian)
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Social work
Videos
"They say they give a hand" is a spot promoted by the professional association of Social Workers of the Piedmont Region (leaded by Barbara Rosina) with the support of the Italian Association of Social Workers to inform and to constrast the stereotypes about social workers.
The video was designed by Simone Schinocca, artistic director of Tedacà, Turin, Italy and by prof. Elena Allegri, Ph.D. Social Work, Department of Law and Social Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy and directebd by Edoardo Palma, known for making the short "Yet the best universe ever".
The video was presented during the first Italian conference on social work research, organized by the SOCISS, the Italian Society of Social Work (formerly AIDOSS), held on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2017 at the University of Turin.
The video has subtitle in English.
Articles
26 May 2018 - Firms make millions out of ‘by the night’ flats for England’s homeless (The Guardian)
13 August 2017 - Feared, ostracised and murdered: how music saved the Tanzania Albinism Collective (The Guardian)
13 April 2017 - Why social workers are marching 100 miles in protest against austerity (The Guardian)
22 November 2016 - Children from poorer areas 'make two years' less progress' at school (The Guardian)
22 November 2016 - Student loans: fight over 'disgraceful' freeze on income threshold (The Guardian)
18 November 2016 - May cabinet to make plan for families below 'just managing' line (The Guardian)
12 November 2016 - Tories join NHS chiefs in call for increased social care funding (The Guardian)
12 November 2016 - Suicide, self-harm, stabbings and riots – prisons reach crisis point (The Guardian)
11 November 2016 - The fight goes on to free more families from the bedroom tax nightmare (The Guardian)
10 November 2016 - A generation of UK children will suffer in poverty. Suddenly that’s normal (The Guardian)
10 November 2016 - London boroughs prepare for impacts of lowered benefit cap (The Guardian)
3 November 2016 - How Sadiq Khan has been tackling London's housing crisis so far (The Guardian)
22 October - I am Daniel Blake – and there are millions more like me (The Guardian)
1 October 2016 - DWP scraps retesting for chronically ill sickness benefits claimants (The Guardian)
6 September 2016 - Being a service user and a social work academic: balancing expert identities (Social Work Education)
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Working conditions of helping professionals
20 July 2018 - Damian Hinds pledges to help teachers overwhelmed by excessive workload (The Guardian)
Downloads
- Empower project (PDF - 1.29 Mb)
- Being Heard: A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media Response to the Jay Report and the Rotherham Child Abuse Scandal (PDF - 1.45 Mb)
- Moral panics and the state (PDF - 0.04 Mb)
Slides
- Shula Ramon: Media Coverage: Rotherham Child Abuse 1997-2014
- Russell Evans: Historical Analysis of Media Representation of Safeguarding Children Social Work
- Bridget Robb: Story telling in social work and journalism
