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About this site<\/h2>
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This is a space to share and exchange experiences, ideas and reflections about what it means to be a rural social worker.
It also aims to build visibility of rural social work\u2019s contributions, and celebrate its distinctiveness.

It begins at a time when social workers are in the midst of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, and responding to that. Contributions from our regular bloggers, will reflect that, and chart the journey.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This site also builds on previous work we had already begun. In April 2019, Iriss published an Insight on Rural Social Work – written by Colin Turbett<\/a>. This generated a lot of interest, particularly on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We recognised that rural social work sits outside the mainstream and dominant discourse, and is \u2018remote\u2019 just like the areas it works in, often overlooked, under-researched or simply \u2018missing\u2019. We resolved to do something.
The Celebrating Rural Social Work Conference was the result of this resolve, held on 11 March 2020 in Dumfries, not long before lock down and the seriousness of the pandemic unfolded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n