Show Notes
In Episode 4 of the Social Work Sessions, Somerset’s Principal Social Worker, Carolyn Smith, speaks to Professor Michael Preston-Shoot.
Michael is an Emeritus Professor of social work at the University of Bedfordshire and is the current Chair of Somerset’s Safeguarding Adults Board.
In this conversation, which ranges from the medieval to the modern, Michael sets out the legal, ethical and moral case for making safeguarding personal.
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