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20 March 2024

Addressing multiple exclusion homelessness in social work education

Report launch was part of Social Work Week 2024

Social Work Week 2024

Around 130 participants joined an HSCWRU Homelessness series webinar on 18 March, as part of Social Work England Social Work Week 2024, for the launch of an HSCWRU report on Addressing multiple exclusion homelessness in social work education in England. This NIHR SSCR-funded project has produced a snapshot of gaps, innovative practice and resources to support social worker learning on multiple exclusion homelessness, to better prepare the profession for their role in addressing severe and multiple disadvantage.

The findings are explored in a Community Care article (19 March) by the Editor, Mithran Samuel.

Webinar participants shared their experiences and reflections, and thanked the authors and speakers, Karl Mason and Jess Harris:

‘Thank you so much, really made me think about our course … I will be sharing what I have heard with colleagues’

‘A good report with a lot of helpful suggestions and links to explore for our students’

This publication

Harris, J. & Mason, K., (2024) Addressing multiple exclusion homelessness in social work education in England: Gaps, innovative practice and resources London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London.

Slides from the launch event on 18 March 2024.

See also: Addressing multiple exclusion homelessness in social work education - this event, on 20 September 2023, at which emerging findings from the study were discussed, involved Lyn Romeo, Steph Grant, Ruth Allen, Rebecca Mulvaney, Harrshita Murarka, Jess Harris & Karl Mason.

Next time

The next webinar in this series, will focus on brain injury in multiple exclusion homelessness groups.

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The Homelessness series is part of the Homelessness Research Programme at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King's College London. To join the mailing list please contact jess.harris@kcl.ac.uk

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See other upcoming events run by the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King's College London. These events are free. All welcome!

In this story

Jess Harris

Research Fellow

Karl Mason

Social work educator