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Podcasts from Community Care Inform

Author: Community Care

Updated Date: 31 January 2025

Publication Date: 7 September 2018

Learn on the go is the Community Care Inform podcast where practitioners, trainers, consultants, academics and researchers discuss practice, research, and theories and what they mean for social workers. Listening to episodes is a convenient way to learn and refresh your knowledge when you don’t have much time to read or prefer other ways of getting information and reflecting on your practice.

We’ve been recording Learn on the go on an ad hoc basis since 2017. Over these eight years our podcast audience has grown, and in 2025 we made the decision to start recording Learn on the go in seasons. We launched Season 1 Episode 1 in January 2025.

During each season, episodes are released monthly on the last Friday of the month and all episodes appear on Inform Adults and Inform Children. All our podcasts – including from 2017 onwards – are listed below, or you can subscribe to Learn on the go through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Season 1: 2025

Episode 1
Mental capacity and suicide:
Alex Ruck Keene discusses the issues

Episode 2
Young people in domestically abusive relationships
Coming soon

Past episodes: 2024-2020

The adult legacy of childhood trauma: Jenny Molloy discusses how childhood trauma and other events led to her attempt to end her life and how social workers helped her recovery

Addiction and social work: mothers’ lived experiences

Domestic abuse and social work: mothers’ lived experiences

Care Quality Commission assessments: Mary Cridge and Amanda Stride discuss the CQC’s duty to assess how local authorities are meeting their Care Act duties

Personality disorder: Keir Harding and Hollie Berrigan explain why it is important to stop viewing someone through a lens of personality disorder and instead try to understand the function of particular behaviours

Menopause: Catherine Pestano explains why understanding the menopause and supporting women through it is so relevant for the social care sector

Homelessness: Michael Preston-Shoot and Gill Taylor advise on how to assess homeless people’s care and support needs under the Care Act

Anti-racist social work: Dr Kish Bhatti-Sinclair discusses the history of anti-racist social work and how practitioners can apply anti-racism to their work today

Remote supervision: Dr David Wilkins discusses how remote supervision can be effective and ideas for online group supervision

Fear in social work: Professor Brian Littlechild discusses how fear impacts practice and practical tips to keep fear manageable

Past episodes: 2019-2017

Forced marriage: Rachael Clawson and Luthfa Khan discuss the particular reasons behind the forced marriage of adults with learning disabilities

Strengths-based practice: Three expert panellists discuss the skills social workers need for strengths-based practice, carrying out assessments and supervision

Social media: Jenny Simpson and Claudia Megele define the key social media networks and discuss whether social workers can and should view the social media of service users

Parents with learning disabilities: The Elfrida Society parents’ peer support group and researchers Nadine Tilbury and Kate Theodore share their experiences and offer advice for social workers

County lines: Dave, a parent, and Catherine, a youth justice manager, discuss what good social work with young people involved with gangs looks like

Transgender issues: Matty Donaldson and Julie Fish talk about the discrimination trans people experience from services and what good social work with trans people looks like

Parental alienation: Sarah Parsons and Julie Doughty discuss what this is, how it differs from implacable hostility and signs alienation might be taking place

Motivational interviewing: Lydia Guthrie and David Wilkins discuss what MI is and the research behind it, and improvise scenarios showing an MI approach in action

Strengths-based practice: Lyn Romeo and Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts discuss what strengths-based practice is and how it can be used in social work

Poverty: Paul Bywaters and Andy Bilson look at inequality in the care system and why the number of child protection investigations has dramatically increased

Burnout: Paula McFadden and Jill Manthorpe discuss their research into burnout among child protection and learning disability social workers

Female genital mutilation: Sonita Pobi and Comfort Momoh discuss how attitudes to FGM have changed and why it must be seen as a safeguarding issue, not a cultural issue

Attachment theory: David Shemmings and Lydia Guthrie talk about using attachment theory as a different lens through which to understand a person’s behaviour, particularly for people with dementia

Adoption: Julie Selwyn and Elaine Dibben discuss research into the reasons why adoptions break down and how social workers can support families

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, do let us know.

Add item to CPD Log (SWE)

Title *
Podcasts from Community Care Inform

Date *
20-02-2025 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/podcasts/

Learning

Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. The form below replicates that used by Social Work England in your online account, so that when you need to renew your registration each year, you can easily transfer examples of CPD. Everything you write will be stored in your My CPD log on CC Inform. You can return to each piece of CPD and edit or add to it at any time - for example, if you reflect on it with a peer. You can export all the information as a Word file and copy it into Social Work England's form for the pieces you choose to submit during renewal, and print it off for other uses - for example, in supervision or peer reflection.

1. Describe what you have learnt from doing this CPD activity. (Social Work England recommend that you write 250-500 words, and they say that you may want to refer to the CPD standard 4.1-4.8 - see below.)

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2. Reflect on and describe the positive impact the CPD has had (or will have) on your practice and the people you work with.

This could be people with lived experience of social work, colleagues, or students. If you are not currently working, or not in direct practice, you could think about how your CPD activity might benefit people you come into contact with or the profession as a whole. (Social Work England recommend you write about 250 to 500 words).

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3. Describe what you have learnt from discussing this CPD activity with a peer

This is an optional question. By answering it for at least one of your pieces of CPD, you will meet Social Work England's requirements to record one piece of CPD with a peer reflection during the registration year. You are expected to write at least 250 words.

Social Work England say: "Peer reflection means that you have discussed the content of your CPD activity with a peer, your manager or another professional.

This discussion can be informal or formal, and can take place in one to one or group settings. The role of the peer is not to approve your learning but to support and help you to think about how you can improve your practice. When discussing your CPD with a peer, you should talk about what you have learnt from doing the CPD and the positive impact the CPD activity has had (or will have) on your role, practice and the people you work with".

Read more guidance from the regulator about peer reflection here

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4. Which parts of the CPD standard have you met by doing this activity? By going through the recording process, you will automatically meet standards 4.6 and 4.7. You can use the box below to note the other standards you have met with this piece.

4.1 Incorporate feedback from a range of sources, including from people with lived experience of my social work practice.
4.2 Use supervision and feedback to critically reflect on, and identify my learning needs, including how I use research and evidence to inform my practice.
4.3 Keep my practice up to date and record how I use research, theories and frameworks to inform my practice and my professional judgement.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.5 Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice.
4.6 Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice.
4.7 Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.

For more information, see Social Work England’s guidance on CPD.

Add item to CPD Log (SCW)

Title * Podcasts from Community Care Inform

Date * 20-02-2025 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/podcasts/

Learning Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account and you can export all the information as a Word file or print it off. When you have to renew your social work registration with Social Care Wales, you can include this as evidence of continuing professional development.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How has it contributed to your practice?

3. How much time have you spent on this activity?

4. Next steps (any additional learning you need in this area)?

For more details, visit Social Care Wales

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() Podcasts from Community Care Inform. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
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https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/podcasts/
[accessed: 20 February 2025]

If you are directly quoting the author's own words from this document you must acknowledge that they are not your own words by putting them within quotes marks, reference the source in the text and then provide the full reference at the end of the document. For example:

In the text: Baim argues that "understanding adult attachment patterns can also help practitioners to more readily identify the behaviour patterns that the client uses to maintain safety and comfort and which also, in some cases, serve to keep the client stuck in behaviour that no longer serves them as adults". (Baim, 2015)

Full reference to insert at the bottom of the document: Baim, C. (2015) Using attachment theory to work with adults, Guide. Community Care Inform Adults [online]. Available at: https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/guides/guide-using-attachment-theory-work-adults/ [accessed: INSERT DATE HERE (eg 9 October 2015)]