The Relational Social Work Podcast: Episode 9 - The Children and Families Truth Commission: Listening to voices which are hard to hear

In this week’s episode Hannah and Matt speak with Michele Simmons, Simon Howarth and Natasha Phillips, authors of ‘Eroding the Right to Family Life: Human Rights violations in Britain’s child protection systems’. This episode explores the findings of this report, developed through the voices of over 600 parents and young people who have experienced child protection and care proceedings, exploring the harm the system can cause, as well as recommendations of how the system can work better ‘with’ children and their families. For social workers and others working in the child protection system, this episode may be difficult to listen to, but often it is the voices which are difficult to hear, that we need to listen to and can learn the most from.