Country profiles

At present, we include relevant material on the three countries currently participating in this project. It is hoped that additional countries will be represented in the project and in the website in the future.

The Rome Event

On May 4th 2015 the SWMR network had its first study day in the Italian Senate, with:

  • Representatives of the national associations of social workers in Germany, Italy and the UK
  • Academic researchers from the three countries;
  • Three MA in social work students, one from each country in our network, who researched media representation of social work issues
  • An Italian politician, who was a recent Minister of Health
  • The day was chaired by a TV journalist

You can access their presentations on the web links below:

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The UK has a range of mass media, including national and regional newspapers, national and regional television channels...

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