Women with a learning disability who experience domestic abuse receive intervention from both social services and the police. Responses from these services have increasingly become focused on notions of risk. This article uses governmentality theory to examine how risk is understood and managed by both services through a focus on policy and practice.
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This paper reports on an ethnographic study conducted in two eating disorders treatment settings in New South Wales, Australia. The study set out to make a social work contribution to the debate on the ethics of involuntary treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) drawing on the authors' practice experience
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There has been a recurrent recognition in inquiry reports following high-profile deaths of children known to welfare services of shortcomings in social workers' analytical and assessment skills. There is an urgent need to explore what might help supervisors and practitioners ‘think about their thinking’. This paper draws on cognitive interviewing (CI) and examines its applicability/transferability to the professional domain of child-care social work supervision.
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Allan Colver recently gave a talk at the LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar. His talk is timely and relevant. It coincides and overlaps on the very same issues covered in the recently launched NICE guideline on the challenges young people face when transitioning from children’s to adult health and/or social care services.
Early action is enabling people to overcome problems before they become harder to tackle. Most people agree that this is a common sense concept, but the Task Force is often asked for concrete examples to show how it works in practice. This report showcases seven stories of projects or services from across the UK that are acting earlier in dealing with social problems.
The first comprehensive study into destitution in the UK has revealed that 1.25 million people, including over 300,000 children, are destitute, the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation announced today.
The Education Committee questions the Minister for Children and Families and the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families on the Government's children's social work reform agenda.
erious case reviews should better reflect the context in which poor decisions were taken by practitioners, according to a report.
The NSPCC and Social Care Institute for Excellence guide set out 18 ‘quality markers’ for safeguarding children boards to consider when commissioning serious case reviews (SCRs).
The report was commissioned by the Department for Education as part of a suite of resources on learning from serious case reviews.
New figures today show the number of patients that have opted out of sharing their care information outside the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) for purposes other than their direct care2.
Testing the reliability and effectiveness of an assessment tool is usually the domain of academic institutions. But in 2015, after evaluating and revising the Graded Care Profile service, which helps social workers measure the quality of care being given to a child, the NSPCC decided to carry out psychometric testing for the first time.
Practical tools to help improve the quality and use of serious case reviews and reports sharing what we've learnt from our joint project with SCIE, funded by the DfE.
The Social Work Reform Board's changes were implemented to improve the professional standards and reputation of social work in England. However, the government is already reviewing both social work education and social work practice even as the reforms are implemented. The aim of this paper is to explore whether the dilemmas of social work education and practice are linked to a fundamental debate about the nature and future of contemporary social work.
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There has been growing interest in religion and spirituality within social work literature. However, little empirical research has explored Islamic welfare organisations and especially their significance for service users. This article presents findings from an evaluation of a British Islamic social work organisation (Ihsaan Social Support Association (ISSA) Wales), drawing on qualitative interviews with Muslim service users (n = 8) and quantitative findings from the service user database (n = 495), a quality-of-life assessment (n = 42) and a satisfaction survey (n = 36).
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Adult safeguarding is the subject of increasing attention in England and internationally. This article draws on research which developed a typology of ‘models of safeguarding’. ‘Models’ refer to different ways local authorities in England organise adult safeguarding (about which there is little evidence) rather than ‘model’ approaches to be emulated.
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Despite intense focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the UK, little is known about how and why some young people recover well from sustained exploitation by multiple perpetrators. Using thematic analysis, three published memoirs by young people (female) about their sexual exploitation by groups of men in the UK are analysed for insight into what contributes to positive short- and long-term outcomes.
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