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Jumpstart your career as a Social Work student or NQSW

Now that you’re coming to the end of your professional Social Work training, it’s time to start thinking about making your first career move as a newly qualified Social Worker (NQSW). It’s an exciting time, and by following our useful tips you’ll be off to a great start.

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How Can Schools Best Support Supply Teachers?

When a Supply Teacher enters a new school for the day, it can be a daunting experience. There are so many new policies, procedures, faces and names to take in, and that’s before you even get past reception! They also have to contend with an unknown building, unseen planning, an unknown timetable and a brand new set of students – all of this can be very overwhelming. 

The way in which schools welcome Supply Teachers is not something that has been standardised. Some Teachers have wonderful experiences where they felt as though they had all the information they needed to succeed for the day, or at least knew where to go to if they couldn’t find what they needed, whilst others have more mixed experiences. 

So, how do you as a school welcome your Supply Teachers? What procedures do you have in place to ensure that they can enter the classroom and lead the learning to the best of their ability, and to ensure that the children they teach will have a fantastic day of learning ahead of them?

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Children’s Mental Health Week - Growing Together

This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme is all about Growing Together.

As children get older, it can be hard to know how best to be there for them as a parent or carer, and it can be challenging to adapt our parenting styles while our children grow and mature. Each stage of your child’s development may require a new or different response as a parent, and this will mean learning a new way of doing things.

It is important to know that we don’t have to know all the answers as a parent, and we can learn and grow together with our children. Here are five ways that you can do this:

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