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Missing children: who cares?

Each year thousands of children go missing from their homes. The majority of them will return, or be found soon after they have been reported missing. There are many reasons why children go missing...

Mental Health & Wellbeing and Personality Disorders: a guide for criminal justice professionals

This guide has been commissioned by the Department of Justice (Northern Ireland), and developed by MindWise, to assist criminal justice professionals to support people who are vulnerable by virtue of...

What Works to Enhance Inter-Parental Relationships and Improve Outcomes for Children

Healthy child development is the bedrock of a healthy, productive, and secure society. The central role of positive parenting practices in promoting this objective has been emphasised in past...

Adoption: A vision for change

Childhood experiences have a lifelong influence. We know that a secure, loving family life is at the heart of those experiences and its absence can have profound negative consequences. Children rely...

Boys Don’t Cry: Improving identification and disclosure of sexual exploitation among boys and young men trafficked to the UK

Knowledge and awareness of human trafficking has increased in recent years, prompting the Government to introduce a Modern Slavery Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2015, and was intended to...

Child Death Reviews: Scottish Government Steering Group Report

One Thousand One Hundred And Nine (1,109) deaths of people, aged 0–18 years, were registered in Scotland, in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. The end of life does not mean the end of care. Scotland has...

National action plan to prevent and tackle child sexual exploitation: update

Child sexual exploitation is an often hidden form of child sexual abuse. It happens in person and online and has a devastating impact on victims and their families. No child or young person should...

Get well soon: reimagining place-based health

We are not short of perspectives on the future of health and social care in England, and nor are we struggling for consensus about the things that would help our system to reach sustainability. The...

London Together: Transforming services for the most excluded in the capital

London is a prosperous city, which generates significant wealth and opportunity. However, many Londoners still face entrenched exclusion linked to significant social problems in the capital: • 27% of...

Annual Report by the Chief Social Worker for Adults 2015-16

It has been a busy time for social work with adults and their families since publication of my first annual report in October 2014. Implementation of the Care Act, the revised Mental Health Act: Code...

The effectiveness of social work with adults: A systematic scoping review

• This report is based on a scoping review into the effectiveness of social work with adults undertaken to help inform the work of the Chief Social Worker for Adults. The Chief Social Worker for...

Fit for purpose? Workforce policy in the English NHS

Health care is a people business. The 1.4 million people who work in the English NHS are its greatest asset. As modern health care becomes ever more complex, designing effective ‘workforce policy’ –...

Poor Mental Health: The links between child poverty and mental health problems

Children’s mental health is beginning to get the attention that it deserves, and there has been an effort from Government to achieve parity of esteem with physical health. However, access to support...

Poverty and children’s relationships

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) Research Centre, in partnership with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), was supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to explore associations...

Criminal Care: Children’s homes and criminalising children

• ‘Looked after’ children living in children’s homes are being criminalised at excessively high rates compared to all other groups of children, including those in other types of care • Staff in...

The inspection of local areas’ effectiveness in identifying and meeting the needs of children and young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities

This report summarises the responses to the formal consultation about the inspection arrangements to test how effectively local areas fulfil their responsibilities to children and young people who...

Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation

This guidance from HM Government should be considered in conjunction with other relevant safeguarding guidance, including, but not limited to, Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015) in England...

End of life care audit – dying in hospital final report 2016

The results of the new end of life care audit run by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) show that there has been steady progress in the care of dying people since the previous audit carried out in...

National Referral Mechanism: guidance for child first responders

This guidance from the Home Office is aimed at first responders who identify potential child trafficking and child slavery victims in the UK. First Responders are specified statutory authorities and...

Victims of modern slavery – frontline staff guidance

This guidance gives information for frontline staff in the Home Office to help them identify and help potential victims of modern slavery (including human trafficking) in England and Wales or is a...

Victims of modern slavery – Competent Authority guidance

This guidance gives information for staff in Competent Authorities in the Home Office and UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) to help them decide whether a person referred under the National Referral...

Moving Forward? How well the further education and skills sector is preparing young people with high needs for adult life

In August 2012, the Ofsted survey ‘Progression post-16 for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities’ found that transition arrangements for these learners to post-16 education and into...

The Road Ahead: A review of the voluntary sector’s operating environment

The Road Ahead is our annual analysis of the changing operating environment for NCVO members and anyone working in the voluntary sector. It identifies and explains forces and trends that are shaping...

Practice guidance for the use of S20 provision in the Children Act 1989 in England and the equivalent S76 of the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 in Wales

Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 extended earlier legal provision dating back to 1948 which recognised that some parents were unable either on a single occasion or periodically to look after their...

Shifting social norms to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG)

This guidance note was produced by the DFID-funded Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Helpdesk on behalf of the DFID VAWG team in the Inclusive Societies Department. The lead author and expert...

No Shame in Justice: Addressing stigma against survivors to end sexual violence in conflict zones

This report was written by Hilary Stauffer, an independent consultant and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Erica Hall, World Vision UK.The world’s attention...

We Want to Learn About Good Love: Findings from a Qualitative Study Assessing the Links Between Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Violence Against Women and Girls

This study was commissioned by Plan UK and undertaken by Social Development Direct (SDDirect). SDDirect consultants Jenny Holden and Victoria Schauerhammer developed the research methodology and...

Lighting up young brains: How parents, carers and nurseries support children’s brain development in the first five years

Save the Children is launching this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of children’s early development. They greatly hope that in the near future, all nurseries will benefit from an early...

The Global Agenda: Human Worth and Dignity - the UK Context

The Global Agenda reaffirms the commitment of social work to the universal pursuit of human rights. The four aims of the GA (social and economic equalities, dignity and worth of people, environmental...

Advice to BASW members on Age Determination

BASW recognises that social workers are being placed in challenging and conflicting positions in undertaking the task of age assessments of refugee and asylum seeking children and young people. BASW’...

IFSW Statement from The Solidarity Symposium on Social Work and Austerity

The International Federation of Social Workers bought together country representatives from Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Spain and UK to create links between the social workers in the austerity...

Review of the implementation of the Child Practice Review Framework

The Welsh Government commissioned Cordis Bright to complete this review in order to assess the implementation of the Child Practice Review (CPR) framework. Its main aim is to assess the extent to...

Breaking the Lock: A new preventative model to improve the lives of vulnerable children and make families stronger

iMPOWER shares the ambition of those in the public sector who believe that we must improve the lives and life chances of the most vulnerable in our society. We have, alongside local public servants,...

Guardianship for children deprived of parental care: A handbook to reinforce guardianship systems to cater for the specific needs of child victims of trafficking

This handbook aims to support public officials in European Union (EU) Member States who are in charge of, or involved in, guardianship and legal representation of children at a national, regional or...

Building a Bridge of Trust: The role of peer education in tackling Child Sexual Exploitation

I’m delighted to introduce this report on ‘Building a Bridge of Trust’ at a time when the issue of Child Sexual Exploitation has become such an important subject for us all. Recent high profile cases...

Dementia Advisers Survey: Survey of provision of dementia adviser services

This report outlines the findings from a survey about the provision of dementia adviser services. The aim of this research was to explore the provision of services available to older people, with...

Rethinking Children’s Services: Fit for the Future?

When a child is not being sufficiently cared for it is the duty of the state to step in and make sure that he or she is helped, protected and supported to flourish. The law is clear that the welfare...

CentreForum Commission on Children and Young People's Mental Health: State of the Nation

One in 10 young people have a mental health problem. That’s the equivalent of three in every classroom. This means there are around 720,000 children and young people aged between 5 and 16...

The Health of the Nation: Averting the demise of universal healthcare

Evidence of a health system in demise appears in the media every day. Patients endure excessive waits for diagnosis and treatment and care pathways can be so fragmented that patients are often lost...

Charting progress on the health devolution journey: early lessons from Greater Manchester

In 2014, a number of areas across England began to explore ‘deals’ with Government to devolve services and funding to a more local level. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) signed their...

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