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Social Work Sorted with Vicki Shevlin

Social Work Sorted is the leading podcast for Newly Qualified Social Workers in the UK. Hosted and produced by Vicki Shevlin, a social worker, trainer, consultant and founder of The Social Work Collective Academy.

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Conversations from Conferences: Finding Hope in the Work

November 04, 2025

I recently attending 2 conferences that didn't feel like conferences at all. The Contextual Safeguarding Conference in Durham and the Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Conference in Manchester (mini celebration for events that take place outside of London!).

I wanted to share all my reflections with you, messy, unedited, reading from my notes and very clearly still on a high from being with likeminded people, learning and very much seeing hope in action.

If you wanted to go to the conferences and couldn't, listen to hear the highlights, and if you are feeling dejected or disillusioned, listen and borrow some hope from me.

I talk about this book:

Doing Real-Life Change in Children’s Social Care: Embedded Research in Practice

Lloyd, J., & Owens, R. (2025). Doing Real-Life Change in Children’s Social Care: Embedded Research in Practice. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447372400

I referenced Dr Ron Dodzo:

https://www.instagram.com/theaccessiblepsychologist/?hl=en

Contextual Safeguarding:

https://www.contextualsafeguarding.org.uk/

Ciara McCelland:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciara-mcclelland-0a211b250/?originalSubdomain=uk

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