'The articles in this first edition are linked by a sense of hope. [They raise questions] about social work practice, the experience of such practice, policy, legislation & leadership in current times, but they do so in the spirit of prompting action & change for the better.' >>

'...  I don’t think I have ever felt so keenly that there is a concerted effort from all agencies to ensure our most vulnerable families are supported as in the time of COVID-19.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/safe-social-work-in-the-time-of-corona/

'...while social class does not provide absolute protection from the virus, the lived experiences of the measures introduced to combat it are dramatically different for rich and poor across the globe.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/why-we-need-social-workers-to-avert-a-prisons-crisis-beginning-a-critical-conversation/

' A decade of welfare retrenchment has wreaked havoc on social protection and the Coronavirus Act makes it a whole lot easier for the rights of the most vulnerable to be further denied.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/social-protection-and-the-coronavirus-act/

'The history of human progress is, arguably, the history of mutual aid.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/the-good-fight-reflections-on-social-work-and-solidarity-in-the-time-of-covid-19-and-beyond/

'Covid-19 is teaching us that we are inter-connected like never-before.   Political ideology which has pushed people to the margins, and sometimes beyond, now seems futile.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/we-are-human-too-local-authority-responses-to-unaccompanied-young-people-leaving-care-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

'So who enforces the Equality Act if the Government cannot or will not book interpreters? Deaf organisations have stepped up, as have Deaf individuals to convey the information in BSL across social media.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/the-deaf-community-in-the-uk-and-covid-19/

'The other, now largely latent, social work tradition seeks to shape a social work that is with, of and for the communities it serves. Close cooperation between social workers and others forges the relations through which ‘working the social’ is achieved.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/the-politics-of-proximity-in-the-age-of-social-distancing/

'... I became ‘a symbol’ of the social worker. I was present in a very flat way, still entering the family space, but unable to be my full self and unable to dispel lots of the assumptions and fears that come with meeting a social worker...'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/becoming-another-screen-in-a-time-of-covid-19/

'Adede feels that the integrity of FGCs has not been compromised... the very human emotions that lie at the centre of these meetings still make themselves known, even through a screen.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/the-friday-story/

'Children are generally not able to avail of the safe havens of nurseries & schools, so they are not seen as often. I would hate to see a Serious Case Review in future that blamed social workers unnecessarily for not seeing the children due to COVID-19.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/do-childrens-social-care-staff-need-to-use-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-for-coronavirus-covid-19/

'During my time in isolation I have come to a massive understanding that some of your biggest supporters will be the people you don’t even know.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/ignorance-is-bliss/

'Social workers, faced with an inability to access the bureaucratic systems they rely on, are at an utter loss as to how to support families in a crisis such as this one... In a period like this, neo-liberal social work really has little to offer.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/the-failure-of-social-work-to-respond-to-covid-19/

'The rescue package’s very existence surely buries for good the Tory-Lib Dem claim that there was an economic need for the savage public spending cuts which they inflicted on the country in the name of austerity; the need was only ever ideological.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/politics-social-work-and-covid-19-march-2020-the-month-the-music-died-or-the-month-it-revived/

'It was cramped and impossible to attempt social distancing. If anyone coughed or look sick, people shuddered. They thought they’d better wash their hands again, just in case.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/a-new-spring/

'The persistent war analogy that has inevitably arisen around tackling Covid-19 has the usual effects of over-simplifying and catastrophising a complex medical, economic and social phenomenon. Yet it also rallies the public to a flag we can all salute.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/a-call-to-arms/

'Social work under COVID-19 means that many issues will now disappear under the radar, or be put on hold, with the expectation that they will all resume when things get back to ‘normal’.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/is-it-time-to-wind-up-the-national-accreditation-assessment-system/

'It's easy to tell others to stay at home. But when your house is cramped & overcrowded, when you experience fuel poverty, when your kids want to breathe fresh air & when you need space from the inevitable chaos that ensues, it isn’t as easy as that.'
https://sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2020/04/08/unequal-lives-unequal-deaths/