09 October 2025
Date and time: 19:00hrs UK, Thurs 30th October 2025
Care Visions Professional Talk - Nurturing Belonging to Enable Becoming: The Value of Social Pedagogy in Residential Child Care, with Professor Yvalia Febrer, Associate Professor of Social Work, Kingston Hill campus.
Join Yvalia Febrer in conversation with Humphrey Hawksley for a special live podcast recording exploring social pedagogy and the future of residential childcare.
Yvalia brings frontline experience in child protection and groundbreaking work developing the UK’s first degree-level qualification for residential childcare practitioners. She’ll share how social pedagogy goes beyond therapeutic care, focusing on the whole child in their community, family, networks, and environment.
Expect insights on how we can rethink risk-driven systems, and what it means to create genuinely holistic care across the life course.
This is not just theory, it’s about practice, innovation, and reshaping children’s social care for the future.
Who is this talk for?
This talk is for anyone with an interest in children’s wellbeing and development. This might include those who work in residential child care and foster care and those involved in social work, education, therapy and counselling.
About our guest.
Yvalia Febrer is an Associate Professor of Social Work, a Teaching & Learning Lead for Social Work & Social Care, and Academic Co-Lead for Future Skills at Kingston University London. Her professional background is in Children & Families Social Work, specifically Child Protection. A qualified Practice Educator, she has worked for the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hounslow, Richmond, and was the first Programme Director of Frontline, a social work training programme. Her special interest areas are Social Pedagogy, Child Protection, PTSD, and Child & Adult Attachment.
Attendees of the live event will also be able to submit questions to Yvalia throughout the talk.
About our host - Humphrey Hawksley
Author, commentator and broadcaster, Humphrey Hawksley has reported on key trends, events and conflicts from all over the world, most notably in the tole of BBC foreign correspondent. His work includes documentaries examining; human rights abuse in global trade, failures of international development, the global nuclear industry, and democracy across different societies.
Humphrey is the author of the acclaimed ‘Future History’ series and has published four international thrillers. His work has appeared in most major broadsheets, and he has lectured at some of the most the most prestigious universities.
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