Brits team up with Palestine
Thursday 13 September 2012
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EmailSocial workers in Britain are forming an international link with their counterparts in Palestine with an event herald the start of the Palestine-UK Social Work Network.
Organisers said yesterday the Social Work in Palestine event, which is open and free, "is to bring together social workers, students, managers, academics, policymakers and other interested people, to look at the links that are being forged between social workers in the UK and social workers in Palestine, and to help continue to forge these links."
The event takes place at Durham University on November 2.
Contact guyshennan@sfpractice.co.uk to book and to get details.
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