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Making the links: poverty, ethnicity and social networks

This report examines the ways in which people use social networks to help cope with or escape from poverty, and how this varies within and between ethnic groups. It shows how networks can also...

The impact of fostering on foster carers’ children

When a family experiences the transformation to a family who fosters, there will be many changes in family relations and general family life. It is the whole family who fosters, and the involvement...

What we know now 2013: New information collated by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network

The National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) has, in just three years, established itself as a leading national and international source of information on where, how and why people...

UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 2

This is the second volume in the UK Justice Policy Review series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. UK Justice Policy Review (hereafter Justice Policy Review) explores key criminal...

The care that changed my life

In the wake of a House of Commons Select Committee recently arguing the case for more vulnerable children to be brought into care in order to avoid being kept in precarious family situations for too...

More power to you?

How far should the authorities go in a bid to protect vulnerable adults who are considered to be capable of making their own decisions? PSW looks at the implications of proposals to increase powers...

Ganging down on violence

Gang violence in Glasgow dates back centuries and today it is estimated that there are 170 gangs in the city, the same as London. Social care journalist Sally Gillen finds out how innovative projects...

Measuring up?

Michael Shaw considers how service users and carers are currently involved in the process of assessing student social workers and asks whether existing approaches are sufficiently nuanced to elicit...

Developing collective leadership for health care

•• The most important determinant of the development and maintenance of an organisation’s culture is current and future leadership. Every interaction by every leader at every level shapes the...

Social workers tell of risks and concerns

Among the 1,100 respondents to BASW’s 2012 State of Social Work survey, 85% have experienced notable cuts to services in the last 12 months and 78% have noticed jobs cuts or unfilled vacancies...

Laying the Foundations

Following the publication of new guidance, Sheryl Burton and Emma Sawyer consider how the concept of resilience can help social workers support families with complex needs, including those with...

From boys to men

In the absence of positive role models, many adolescent males are seeking identity in mass market consumerism at best, or drugs, gangs and anti-social behaviour at worst. Here, Michael Boyle of UK...

Drugs, alcohol and postcode lotteries

The shift towards locallydetermined alcohol and drug services in England opens up the possibility of either good or bad news for social work, whether for more therapeutic interventions or the...

Getting to a better placement

As local authority cuts place ever more pressure on statutory placements for student social workers, PSW’s Shahid Naqvi considers the barriers to better practice learning opportunities, the lessons...

Your port in this storm

Frontline social worker Janet Foulds articulates the challenges facing child protection workers in the current difficult climate, and sets out the fundamentals that struggling practitioners must...

Assessing parenting capacity

Aimed at practitioners, this factsheet describes the process of assessing parenting capacity. It highlights aspects of good practice drawn from research literature and guidance. This factsheet is...

The Experiences of 11-16 year olds on social networking sites

Research from 2010 showed that in one year alone, 13 per cent of UK children aged 9-16 experienced something on the internet as a whole which upset or worried them. This new research shows that over...

The Entitlements Inquiry: Report with recommendations

There were 91,000 looked-after children in the UK in 2012.1 There are 68,110 looked after children in England.2 During 2013, 9,990 children aged 16 years of age and over ceased to be looked after in...

Growing Up In A Hostile Environment:: The rights of undocumented migrant children in the UK

This report examines the ways in which lack of immigration status is an obstacle to children and young people accessing their basic rights and entitlements and the further difficulties this group...

Younger children and social networking sites: a blind spot

At around 11 years old, most children in the UK leave behind the familiarity of their local primary school and begin travelling to a much larger secondary school with many new faces and many new...

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