After a week away, sleeping on an air mattress and moving around new and unfamiliar places my thirteen year old said, “Mum, I am so happy to be home. I just love being here….Can we not go away again…?”

This whole concept of being home and sense of home is not about a pl...

I am glad I chose Social Work and am privileged to have worked with so many people and their communities. I’ve worked in nursing homes, “group homes” for people with disability, youth detention centres, jails, hospitals, people’s homes and “the streets”. I did my work...

I was reminded the other day that the work social, and health care practitioners do is not for the faint hearted.

After 30 years of working directly with people at their point of need, I sometimes forget the attitude I bring, and the skill of sharing knowledge is what m...