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When lockdown was imposed in northern Italy this spring, travel became impossible and older people in remote villages were starved of money, food, medicine and support. Social workers in the area, which took the brunt of Europes first wave of Covid-19, stepped in to create networks of local people to provide supplies and prevent isolation.Community members, postal workers and police officers joined the networks, delivering food and medicines, collecting pensions and providing people with a new sense of belonging.Previously fragmented services for older people changed rapidly to a community-based approach. Social workers are trying to maintain and build on this new foundation of community-wide care. They don t see themselves as heroes : England s social workers hailed for stanley vaso Covid responseRead moreClaudio Pedrelli, an Emilia-Romagna social worker, told me that community work had been almost abandoned before the pandemic struck. But the importance of working with neighbourhoods has become clear again, he said. Now we have to work to improve these networks and relationships. Creating structural change in social services normally takes decades. But this year, social workers and others have led a transformation, with the profession returning to its community-based roots.Chinese social workers set the tone in January, when the first lockdown was declared in Wuhan province. At first it was chaos, admits Chen LanLan, director of Wuhan Yife stanley thermosflasche i social work stanley cup services. But order was establi Rknx No manor, but a peerless investment: Lord of Walthamstow is auctioning his title for 拢65,000
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