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UK poverty: Causes, costs and solutions

Four years ago, JRF set out to learn as much as we could about poverty in the UK, and how to solve it. Bringing together the skills and resources of national and local governments, businesses,...

Real lives: Listening to the voices of people who use social care

The social care system provides vital support to millions of adults and children. It is a complex system with care offered in a range of settings, funded with contributions both from the public purse...

Making IT Work: Harnessing the Power of Health Information Technology to Improve Care in England

In order for the National Health Service (NHS) to continue to provide a high level of healthcare at an affordable cost it simply must modernise and transfrom. this transformation will involve...

A digital NHS? An introduction to the digital agenda and plans for implementation

- Digital technology has the potential to transform the way patients engage with services, improve the efficiency and co-ordination of care, and support people to manage their health and wellbeing...

Age Friendly Places: Making our community a great place to grow older

Living longer is a huge opportunity if we adapt our neighbourhoods and communities to work for us as we age. As we grow older, we often spend more time in our homes and communities, so our immediate...

Child Safety Online: Age Verification for Pornography

As was set out in our consultation, the Government’s preferred approach to delivering this commitment is to establish a new law, requiring age verification (AV) controls for online pornography this...

Improving access to mental health services: Sixteenth Report of Session 2016–17

One in four adults is diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lives, but only around a quarter of people estimated to need mental health services have access to them. The Department of...

Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships

Relationships can be confusing. Especially if you really like someone but they do things you're not comfortable with.

Growing older in the UK: A series of expert-authored briefing papers on ageing and health

The UK’s ageing population and its families are being failed by a flawed and fragmented health and social support regime, a wide-ranging report by the BMA warns. The report, Growing Older in the UK,...

Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management

This guideline covers preventing, assessing and managing mental health problems in people with learning disabilities in all settings (including health, social care, education, and forensic and...
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England Minutes - 7th September 2016

Moving from the margins: The challenges of building integrated local services

Turning Point and Collaborate recently convened a group of expert practitioners to explore an important and pressing question: why, despite the relative maturity of multiple models, and evidence of...
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Minutes of the one hundred and twenty third meeting of Council held on Wednesday, 14th September 2016

Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development: Second Report

Respect for ‘the dignity and worth of peoples’ is the second pillar of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development. This is the second of a series of four reports on The Global Agenda...

Working-age disabled people and social work: Position statement: Draft October 1st 2016

This position statement on “Disabled People and Social Workers is being developed jointly between Shaping our Lives, BASW and a number of organisations and individuals with a passion for this issue...

Children in need of help or protection: Summary

1 The law defines children in need as children who are aged under 18 and need local authority services: to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development; to prevent significant...

BASW England response to Dfe/Home Office consultation on Reporting and Acting on Child Abuse and Neglect – some general comments

This consultation sought views on the possible introduction of mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect or a duty to act in relation to child abuse or neglect. These comments are additional to...

BASW Briefing for Peers: Children and Social Work Bill Report Stage

BASW remains concerned about elements of the Children and Social Work Bill, which is to proceed to Report Stage on18 October 2016 for an expected two days. Despite BASW’s concerns being echoed by...

Together for Mental Health

Together for Mental Health is the Welsh Government’s 10 year strategy to improve mental health and well-being. Published in October 2012, following significant engagement and formal consultation with...

The Profile of Social Workers in Wales 2016

The Profile of qualified social workers in Wales is published annually by the Care Council for Wales (Care Council). It is the sixth annual report and is based on the data provided by applicants to...

I am whole: A report investigating the stigma faced by young people experiencing mental health difficulties

Growing up can be a positive time for many. However, there are hundreds of thousands of young people across England and Wales for whom the experience is very different. Mental health difficulties...

I am whole: A collection of stories from young people about their experiences of mental health difficulties

Mental health difficulties among children and young people are common and can be both persistent and damaging. However, as our I AM WHOLE research has revealed, these young people also have to battle...

No country for young women: Young Women’s Trust Annual Survey 2016

The Young Women’s Trust Annual Survey 2016 reveals a generation of young people despairing and anxious, many of whose lives are on hold because of serious financial, work and housing problems – with...

Implementing Health in All Policies at a local level: practical examples

The 19 examples in this document illustrate how Health in All Policies (HiAP) has been put into practice in the UK and around the world. We have categorised these practical examples as strategic,...

Implementing Health in All Policies at a local level: background information

We know that health, wellbeing and health inequalities (and associated behavioural risk factors) are largely determined by living conditions and wider social, economic, environmental, cultural and...

Report concerning the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings by the United Kingdom

The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has been set up pursuant to Article 36 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (“...

End of Life Care and Human Rights: A practitioner's gude

This guide is for practitioners caring for people at the end of their lives. This may be in a hospice, a care home, a hospital or in the community (including in people's own homes). It may also be...

Mental Health Care for Children and Young People and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights in mental health settings for children and young people. It is aimed at professionals working in hospitals but some of the information may be useful for work in the...

Rehabilitation and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights in mental health rehabilitation settings. It is aimed at professionals working in those settings. We use the term ‘practitioner’ throughout to include anyone...

Dementia and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights and dementia care. It is aimed at professionals working in dementia care settings, in hospital or in the community (we’ve used the term ‘practitioner’ throughout to...

Mental Health Early Intervention and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights in mental health early intervention services. It is aimed at professionals working in those settings, in hospital or in the community. We use the term ‘practitioner...

Social Care Intervention and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights in social care settings. It is aimed at social care practitioners working in settings where mental capacity or mental health is a factor. We use the term ‘...

Learning Disability and Human Rights: A practioner's guide

This booklet is about human rights in learning disability settings. It is aimed at professionals working in the community but is relevant for those working in learning disability services of all...

Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Human Rights: A practitioner’s guide

This booklet is about human rights in services supporting people with mental health and/or mental capacity issues. It is aimed at practitioners working in those settings. We use the term ‘...

Effective Health and Wellbeing Boards: Findings from 10 Case Studies

In our third ‘state of the nation’ report on health and wellbeing boards (HWBs), The Force Begins to Awaken, we concluded that a significant number of HWBs are now beginning to play a genuine...

Cities of Service UK: Capturing the Skills and Energy of Volunteers to address City Challenges

This report is designed to be a practical guide for councils across the UK who want to harness the energy, skill and enthusiasm of volunteers. It will be helpful for those who want to better...

Delivering Differently How to deliver change

There is an urgent need to accelerate reform in our public services. If the state is to tackle the big social problems of 21st Century Britain then the public sector needs to get marter, more...

Social care for older people: Home truths

The social care system in its current form is struggling to meet the needs of older people. Six consecutive years of cuts to local authority budgets have seen 26 per cent fewer people get help. No...

Research brief: evaluation of children’s centres in England -strands 1 to 5

Following on from the Sure Start initiative of 1998, Children’s Centres were launched in 2002 with the aim of giving disadvantaged children the “best possible start in life.” The centres provide...

The landscape of child protection research in the UK

This study, undertaken for the NSPCC, is the first comprehensive systematic search and mapping review of research undertaken in all four nations of the United Kingdom on the subject of child...

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