Vanessa Hodge (2nd from left) and Charley Clark (3rd from right)
Somerset s adults’ services are looking more widely at how they can support social workers when face-to-face training is not an option
Podcasts. A decade ago hardly anyone had heard of them but now more than 7 million in the UK listen to podcasts every week according to Ofcom.
These on-demand audio sessions are easy to listen to while driving, walking the dog or even cooking the evening meal…so why not use them for CPD?
Vanessa Hodge, Adults’ Principal Social Worker (PSW) in Somerset, has done just that as a way of improving the CPD offer during the COVID-19 pandemic when social workers often felt isolated from teammates and colleagues.
When British broadcaster Michael Parkinson asked entrepreneur Robert Maxwell, his guest on Desert Island Discs in 1987, what, at the end of the day was his achievement, Maxwell answered the achievement. is that. I will have left the world a slightly better place by my having lived in it .
Four years later, Maxwell s body was found in the water off the Canary Islands where his yacht Lady Ghislaine was sailing; no one knows whether his death was murder, suicide, or an accident and initially his demise was greeted as a great tragedy - the obituaries and plaudits did indeed suggest that he had left the world a better place by his having lived in it. However, it was soon revealed that his publishing and media empire was built on fraud, lies and swindling, that, among his many transgressions, he had taken the Mirror group pension pot and used it prop up his extravagant lifestyle and his other failing companies and, in fact, he owed £763m, an amount so large it qualified for the Guinness
Is this key to the documentary?
Yes. My own abuse was sexual. With Beethoven it was brutal, physical, from his violent father. As I began to understand better my own experience, the penny dropped: when you encounter someone else who has been abused â and since
Desert Island Discs Iâve received hundreds of letters from like-minded people â it triggers recognition. So many of us are carrying around this dark sump oil buried somewhere within, like a slick, a reservoir. It needs to be talked about, brought out in the open. Whatever the form of abuse, certain similar patterns emerge.
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