Residential child care in the spotlight: reflections on being involved in the BBC series 'social workers'
McPheat, G.A. (2004) Residential child care in the spotlight: reflections on being involved in the BBC series 'social workers'. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 3 (1). pp. 60-66. ISSN 1478-1840
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Abstract
Describes how a residential unit offering services for 8 children and young people became involved in the BBC Scotland series 'Social Workers', a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Edinburgh's Social Work Department. Discusses how the unit became involved, the filming process, reactions, and some issues raised. The ethics of filming and broadcasting the lives of young people was contentious. Obviously much was lost when 5 months had to be reduced to 30 minutes, but it was generally agreed the results were positive.
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Item type: Article ID code: 37197 Dates: DateEvent2004PublishedKeywords: social care, residential child care, social workers, Social pathology. Social and public welfare Subjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 31 Jan 2012 09:44 Last modified: 02 Apr 2021 00:29 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/37197