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Mark Willis on WillisPalmer’s exciting new social work training service
High quality training for professionals working in the children and families arena is hard to find. Over the past twelve years WillisPalmer has been delivering programs to its own ISWs and psychologists but recently we decided we should make it available to a broader audience.
Therefore we [...]
Viewpoint: Mark Willis on violent partners who abuse their children
Director of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on the correlation between domestic violence and child abuse following the death of Ellie Butler.
The tragic death of six-year-old Ellie Butler at the hands of her father, which was reported for the first time last week, demonstrates once again the correlation between men who are violent to their partners [...]
The HUGE power of small – how social work can learn from business
Director of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on how small steps can make a huge impact on the children social workers work with daily
Last week I attended a two-day conference for business owners in Wales, at the Celtic Manor resort near Newport. It was attended by 840 people from the UK and Europe and featured some [...]
Mark Willis: Why the government’s latest adoption changes could be bad news for families
Managing director of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on the government’s recent announcement on adoption
Last week the government announced it was planning to change the law to ‘speed up’ the adoption of children in care and make it ‘easier’ for foster carers to adopt those who are living with them.
These changes, announced by the education secretary [...]
Special report: Social workers urge support in family court proceedings
Local authority social workers are crying out for specialist training to enable them to provide effective evidence to courts during family court proceedings following an increased reliance on them to fulfil this role, writes Clare Jerrom.
New rules introduced in the Children and Families Act following the Family Justice Review means that experts should only be [...]
Why Independent Social Workers could be the answer to pressures on local authorities following the Spending Review
Mark Willis, director of Independent Social Work specialists WillisPalmer, on why it's a good time to go independent
It is an exciting time to become an Independent Social Worker, says Mark Willis, director of leading provider of ISWs in the country, WillisPalmer.
Not only are local authorities under huge pressure to make cuts to [...]
