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Adopting a new path

Picking up on BASW’s developing relationship with social work in Russia, UK practitioner Daphne Sanders shares her experience of children and families social work in the city of Dzerzhinsk where...

Adult Social Care Summary of Final Report

We have now published our final report which sets out our recommendations for the reform of adult social care. The final report marks the completion of the Law Commission’s project on adult social...

Adult Social Care

Adult social care means the care and support provided by local social services authorities pursuant to their responsibilities towards adults who need extra support. This includes older people, people...

Advice on Child Internet Safety 1.0

For young people the internet, and the increasing number of digital devices they use to connect to it, is an integral part of their everyday lives. Whether they use it to express themselves or to...

Advocacy in social care for groups protected under equality legislation

The provision of advocacy forms an increasingly important part of the social care agenda, particularly in relation to personalised care. Its availability, though, varies by locality. There is little...

Age of Opportunity

The rapid ageing of our society creates many challenges – from the provision of healthcare, to work, pensions, savings, housing, and of course social care – but ageing should not be framed negatively...

Aiming High for Disabled Children Improving Data

Our review of policy literature and evaluations revealed common strands. The collection and sharing of data on children, and on children with disabilities is fundamental to improved delivery of...

An anatomy of economic inequality in Wales

This thought-provoking report should play a major role in evidence-based policy in Wales designed to tackle both long running and newly discovered forms of inequality. Crucially, poverty should not...

Calling time on injustice

Social care journalist Sally Gillen hears first hand from Martin Morton, a social worker who more than a decade ago first highlighted the financial abuse being experienced by a number of vulnerable...

Care Matters: Budget Holding Lead Professionals (BHLPs) with Looked After Children in England

The evaluation of budget-holding with looked-after children built on a previous evaluation of budget-holding in children’s services. In 2006, 16 pilots were established in a variety of locations in...

Carers and personalisation:improving outcomes

One of the challenges of personalisation is to enable commissioners, providers, carers and those they support to develop ‘can do’ thinking around care and support that is at once responsive, creative...

Caring for Carers

The contribution of informal carers to the health and well-being of our general population is immeasurable. The census and other surveys indicate that there people and all of them facing difficult...

Caring for the Whole Person

This research project explored the factors which make a flexible, person-centred style of service possible. This publication reports the key influences identified, lists the conditions which promote...

Caring Together

The Scottish Government and COSLA are determined to ensure that carers are supported to manage their caring responsibilities with confidence and in good health, and to have a life of their own...

Changes in communal provision for adult social care 1991–2001

This report examines shifting trends in care home provision for adults between 1991 and 2001.

Changing attitudes, knowledge and behaviour

This report examines how initiatives successfully used in other fields can help inform new strategies for tackling alcohol-related harm.

Child Poverty Map of the UK

This report provides a localised map of child poverty on the closest possible measure to that used nationally by the government. The figures presented are for mid 2011. They show the scale of the...

Child victims in contact with the criminal justice system in Ireland

UK wide prevalence research has highlighted that abuse during childhood is an all too common experience, with one in four 18–24 year olds (25.3%) reporting severe maltreatment during childhood and...

Childhood Wellbeing: A brief overview

The paper provides a summary of how wellbeing is conceptualised; the domains and measures employed to assess child wellbeing within the UK and internationally; how the views of children and young...

Children and the Big Society

Much research has been undertaken that shows the well-being and resilience of children is strongly linked to their stock of social capital and the quality of their neighbourhood. In short, well-...

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