The Social Care Podcast - Sharing Stories

Join Audrey & Baggie as they chat with Tusla CEO about the role of Social Care Workers in the organisation.
Hear about Kates journey from studying speech & language therapy in Trinity College Dublin to CEO of Ireland's child and family agency, how the voices of children & families are listened to and how she manages stress in the role.
Recorded in August 2025.

Thank you for listening. Audrey and Baggie love to hear what you think of our episodes, please feel free to send us a message on this platform or email us at [email protected].

Podcast Hosts:
Audrey Moore has worked in social care for the past 23+ years in front line, management and teaching roles. Currently a consultant with Trust Social Care Consultancy, Audrey works with social care professionals and organisations providing professional supervision, mentoring, training and advice. She also works with TUDublin, as a lecturer and student placement coordinator.
David Bagnall has worked in a variety of Youth Work and Social Care settings over the course of his career. Currently he is a Social Care Leader with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. He is the parent of a visually impaired son and is an advocate for Human Rights-based Approach in Health and Social Care Services; Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality.

This podcast is sponsored by Trust Social Care Consultancy, for the support and development of Social Care Workers. Check out our website to see how we can support you and your staff: https://trustconsultancy.ie/

Join Audrey and Baggie for this episode of The Social Care Podcast chatting with Cat Scanlon. Cat has had an interesting journey into the world of social care, beginning with work with First Nations people in Australia. She currently works with Localise as the Youth & Community Coordinator.

Find out more about Localise, Irelands national youth volunteering programme here: https://www.localise.ie/

Audrey and Baggie love to hear what you think of our episodes, please feel free to send us a message on this platform or email us at [email protected].

Podcast Hosts:
Audrey Moore has worked in social care for the past 23+ years in front line, management and teaching roles. Currently a consultant with Trust Social Care Consultancy, Audrey works with social care professionals and organisations providing professional supervision, mentoring, training and advice. She also works with TUDublin, lending her expertise to the student placement process.
David Bagnall has worked in a variety of Youth Work and Social Care settings. Currently a Social Care Leader with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. He is the parent of a visually impaired son and is an advocate for Human Rights-based Approach in Health and Social Care Services; Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality.

This podcast is sponsored by Trust Social Care Consultancy, for the support and development of Social Care Workers. Check out our website to see how we can support you and your staff: https://trustconsultancy.ie/

In this Episode, Audrey and Baggie chat with Brian Hogan, former Deputy Director of Oberstown Children Detention Campus. Brian's career in social care spans several decades and he takes us through his work from the early years working with teenagers in Warrenstown House to his later years in Oberstown. Brian has a wonderful ability to share stories from his experiences.

Brian now operates a consultancy, Relationships at work and can be found here: https://relationships-at-work.ie/

Trigger warning: mentions of child abuse, suicide and addiction in this episode.

Audrey and Baggie love to hear what you think of our episodes, please feel free to send us a message on this platform or email us at [email protected].

Podcast Hosts:
Audrey Moore has worked in social care for the past 23+ years in front line, management and teaching roles. Currently a consultant with Trust Social Care Consultancy, Audrey works with social care professionals and organisations providing professional supervision, mentoring, training and advice. She also works with TUDublin, lending her expertise to the student placement process.
David Bagnall has worked in a variety of Youth Work and Social Care settings. Currently a Social Care Leader with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. He is the parent of a visually impaired son and is an advocate for Human Rights-based Approach in Health and Social Care Services; Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality.

This podcast is sponsored by Trust Social Care Consultancy, for the support and development of Social Care Workers. Check out our website to see how we can support you and your staff: https://trustconsultancy.ie/

Join Audrey and Baggie as this week they chat with Ciara McShane, the Interim Deputy Chief Inspector for disability services in HIQA.
HIQA is the Health Information and Quality Authority, an independent statutory body in Ireland. It was established to drive improvement in health and social care services by developing standards, monitoring and inspecting services, and supporting informed decision-making about service delivery. HIQA's aim is to ensure high-quality and safe care for people using health and social care services in Ireland.  Find out more here www.hiqa.ieHear about Ciara's professional journey from a social Care Worker in disability services to her current role and about David and Audrey's first hand experiences with HIQA inspectors as PICs.

Audrey and Baggie love to hear what you think of our episodes, please feel free to send us a message on this platform or email us at [email protected].

Podcast Hosts:
Audrey Moore has worked in social care for the past 23+ years in front line, management and teaching roles. Currently a consultant with Trust Social Care Consultancy, Audrey works with social care professionals and organisations providing professional supervision, mentoring, training and advice. She also works with TUDublin, lending her expertise to the student placement process.
David Bagnall has worked in a variety of Youth Work and Social Care settings. Currently a Social Care Leader with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. He is the parent of a visually impaired son and is an advocate for Human Rights-based Approach in Health and Social Care Services; Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality.

This podcast is sponsored by Trust Social Care Consultancy, for the support and development of Social Care Workers. Check out our website to see how we can support you and your staff: https://trustconsultancy.ie/

Join Audrey and Baggie as they chat with Neil Maiden about creativity and the use of AI in Social Care.
Neil Maiden is Professor of Digital Creativity at the Bayes Business School at City St George’s, University of London and Director of its Institute for Creativity and AI. His research interests include uses of artificial intelligence to augment human creativity. He is and has been a principal and co-investigator on numerous UK EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects with a total value of over £64 million. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and conferences. He chaired the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering series 2009-2012, and was Editor of the IEEE Software’s Requirements column 2005-2013. His details are available at https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/neil-maiden.

Audrey and Baggie love to hear what you think of our episodes, please feel free to send us a message on this platform or email us at [email protected].

Podcast Hosts:
Audrey Moore has worked in social care for the past 23+ years in front line, management and teaching roles. Currently a consultant with Trust Social Care Consultancy, Audrey works with social care professionals and organisations providing professional supervision, mentoring, training and advice. She also works with TUDublin, lending her expertise to the student placement process.
David Bagnall has worked in a variety of Youth Work and Social Care settings. Currently a Social Care Leader with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. He is the parent of a visually impaired son and is an advocate for Human Rights-based Approach in Health and Social Care Services; Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality.

This podcast is sponsored by Trust Social Care Consultancy, for the support and development of Social Care Workers. Check out our website to see how we can support you and your staff: https://trustconsultancy.ie/