Addicted Parents: Last Chance to Keep My Children is a new OU/BBC TV co-production telling the stories of residents at Phoenix Futures’ Specialist Family Service – the…
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Addicted Parents: Last Chance to Keep My Children
OU responds to workforce development challenges with new Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work
The OU is celebrating World Social Work Day (#WSWD2017) with the launch of a new Post-graduate Diploma and MA in Social Work. The OU has been…
Academics respond to the Budget 2017
Following the Chancellor, Philip Hammond’s, first Budget Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in economics and personal finance and Mick McCormick, Head of Social Work at The Open…
Former Zimbabwean refugee on the transforming power of education
Alice Chigumira came to the UK in 2002 as a refugee from Zimbabwe where she’d worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs for 12 years. She…
‘So proud to be a social worker’
The OU has been training social workers for over 18 years with 300 people graduating in the field each year. To celebrate World Social Work Day today,…