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Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Institute for Excellence (SCIE) as ‘provision of services from a variety of sources including the statutory agencies and the private and voluntary sectors’ (SCIE, 2021). The statutory sector comprises government organisations such as Local Authorities, Health and Social Care Partnerships or Trusts. Voluntary sector are non-governmental organisations such as charities...
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...Institute for Excellence, an organisation that provides training and resources for social care and social workers across the UK. While these videos explore the work of social workers in England, the role is broadly similar across the UK, except that in Scotland there is a third key area that social workers may work in, and that is as a Criminal Justice Social Worker....
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...Institute of Public Administration Australia (2024) Indigenous evidence and knowledge offer exciting ways forward. University of Queensland (no date) Indigenous opportunity sprouts from desert discovery’. You might want to explore some of the material below if certain videos from this International virtual field trip, or certain parts of the videos, really grabbed your...
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Institute for Excellence, 2005). Research undertaken by Professor Saul Becker points to a hidden army of young carers with the number being four times that officially recorded. You will read more about his research in the section about young carers. Caring is a complex emotional task. Sometimes the experience of caring is extremely rewarding. It may satisfy deep needs by...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...institutional racism when the global light no longer shone on the horrors of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing protests. Black feminist writer Toni Morrison (1992) describes the invisibility of whiteness as a fishbowl that contains fish and water. The fishbowl itself provides meaning as ‘a fishbowl’ as it is the ‘thing’ that contains the water and the fish,...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...et al, 2015). They go further in pointing out that because we do not have complete mastery over our environment, or control over what happens to us, it is impossible to achieve a purely positive mood. Instead, expressing negative emotions in response to challenging life situations is perfectly mentally healthy. Measuring wellbeing Given the varied ways in which we...
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression suggests that we should never quibble over colours, chromatic terms can nonetheless provide a rich source of discussion for language learners who want to extend their knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the target language. Indeed, there are many descriptions and metaphorical...
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...institutions had come out and said well if there’s a yes vote in Scotland, we will have to leave Scotland, like the Scottish banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, nominally Scottish I might add, saying that if Scotland votes independence we’re going to have to leave Edinburgh, so that had a knock-on effect. So there was an issue there about the economy and the...