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      A Christmas special podcast: a peek inside Community Care

      This Christmas special gives you an insight into some of the team behind Community Care

      By Sharmeen Ziauddin on December 19, 2024 in Workforce

      It’s that time of year! And to celebrate, we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast.

      The social work sector and the face of Community Care have both changed a lot over the past 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year, we got some of the longest-standing members of the our team together for this one-off special.

      For this episode, I sat down with three colleagues, who, together, have been at Community Care for a whopping 80-plus years!

      All three were fairly resistant to the idea of recording an episode, but with some sweet-talking I managed to persuade Mithran Samuel, editor of Community Care, Natalie Valios, senior content editor on Inform Adults, and Nicky Davies, head of partnerships and events, to come to our London office one morning for a chat.

      About the guests

      Mithran started at Community Care 20 years ago as chief reporter, and has since moved up the ranks to his current role as editor. Mithran writes the majority of news stories on the site as well as bearing overall responsibility for the Community Care websute.

      Natalie started over 30 years ago, in 1993, as a sub-editor, and worked in different editorial roles. She left Community Care in 2009 for a brief hiatus and then came back –  she simply could not stay away!

      Nicky joined in the late 80s in a sales job and has since progressed to her current role, overseeing a rewarding career of 36 years.

      Listen now for a real “behind the scenes” episode:

      Read the transcript here.

      Sign up to the Social Work Community to be among the first to catch each episode and to connect with fellow practitioners in a safe space.

      Otherwise, check out the Social Work Community Podcast on the following:

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      2 Responses to A Christmas special podcast: a peek inside Community Care

      1. Tahin December 21, 2024 at 10:30 am #

        I’m from the era when Community Care was in print form and we all looked forward to getting our copy. As then CC is practically the only source for finding out what’s really happening in social work as our organisations and Leaders seem either incapable of or choose not to communicate and engage with us. I miss the letters page, it had room for nuance unlike perhaps comments now. Guilty of it myself too of course. Congrats to you all and do what you do best on our behalf.

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