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Systematic review of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) with children and families

SFBT is a strengths-based approach, emphasizing the resources that people possess and how these can be applied to a positive change process. SFBT focuses on strengths and `life without the problem'...

Sustainable Social Services for Wales

High quality responsive, citizen centred social services are essential to a successful Wales. That is why we are setting out in this Paper how the Welsh Assembly Government will take social services...

Supporting older people in care homes at night

This report examines the perspectives of residents, relatives, staff and care home inspectors. It identifies areas of good and poor practice, and recommends ways to make improvements through a series...

Support for Living?

This study set out to examine how local Supporting People teams were interpreting national guidelines in relation to the provision of housing-related support disabilities. The impact that this was...

Stuck in the Middle

With unprecedented investment in children’s early years and much government energy focused on tackling the ‘problems’ of older teenagers, the needs of children aged from six to 13 are often...

Strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services

This knowledge review tells us what works in strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services. It is based on a rapid review of the research...

Strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services

This research review tells us what works in strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services. It is based on a rapid review of the research...

Step inside our shoes

This consultation offers a unique insight into the issue of gun and knife crime. Over 800 young people decided to take part in our online consultation, which explored the impact of gun and knife...

Staying Safe Survey 2009

The main aim of this research is to measure and track parents’ and children’s awareness, attitudes and reported behaviour across the various safety issues covered within the Staying Safe Action Plan...

Social work's place in reform agenda

Allan Bowman considers the recent Westminster government green paper on adult care in the context of wider personalisation reforms, suggesting that social workers will have a chance to develop their...

Social work's mad history

Joan Rapaport offers a reflection on the Social Work History Network’s autumn seminar, centred on the theme of mental health. The event charted the development of the role of the mental health social...

Social work's emergency service

BASW’s Advice & Representation Service hasn’t enjoyed an especially high profile role within the Association in the past but new leadership and increasing pressures on frontline workers mean it...

Social work's blind spot

Evidence that social workers have received too little training in working with drug and alcohol abusing service users prompted a BASW special interest group to publish a guide in September aimed at...

Social work's big decision

As BASW prepares to publish its Social Work Bill, a prescription for improving the profession, David N Jones maps the rights and responsibilities incumbent on social workers. In doing so he asks...

Social Work Services and Recovery from Substance Misuse: A Review of the Evidence

Its purpose was to review the evidence base to determine the contribution made by social work and social care to supporting people with alcohol and/or other drug problems. The findings were to be set...

Social Work and the coming global storm

Just weeks after stepping down as president of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), David N Jones looks back over more than ten years at the forefront of international social work...

Social networks: their role in addressing poverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on poverty and ethnicity which aims to understand the underlying reasons for variations in low income and...

Social care funding and the NHS

The government’s proposals to reform the NHS have rekindled interest in improving the relationship between local government, social care and the NHS to allow resources to be planned that reflect...

Significant inequalities in Scotland

This research aims to develop greater clarity about significant inequality in Scotland, the priorities for action and the importance of improving the evidence base.

Sexual orientation research review 2008

In January 2008, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to review current research and evidence on sexual orientation in order to...

Sexual orientation explored

A Commission priority is to populate the new Equality Measurement Framework (EMF) with data on indicators, in order to map the changing face of equality. However, it is well established that...

Services, public functions and associations

This document is a Statutory Code of Practice. This is the authoritative, comprehensive and technical guide to the detail of law. It will be invaluable to lawyers, advocates, human resources...

Services for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs

The review arose because of concerns raised during related audit and inspection work, and from issues raised by a wide range of stakeholders. Children and young people with emotional and mental...

Securing Good Care for Older People

The Review team has examined social and health care policy, services and spending as well as demographic, social and technological trends. The analysis was used in the development of a model for...

Securing Good care for More People

This report builds on the 2006 review. It marshals fresh evidence of the compelling need for reform including projections drawn from dynamic modelling. It reinforces the access and fairness while...

Second Biennial Report on social services of general interest

Social services of general interest (SSGI) play a major role in the European societies by contributing to social protection and social inclusion and enhance the capacity of individuals to enjoy their...

Safeguarding and looked after children

This is Ofsted’s first annual survey of social work practitioners across local authorities in England.

Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners

This guide is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. It tries to explain the law in reasonably simple terms, so it is selective and does not set out of question and...

The Right to Choose: Statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage

This guidance is given to all persons, bodies and organisations in Northern Ireland who exercise public functions in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, including those...

Access all Areas

Many care leavers have to cope with major changes in their lives, setting up home, entering work or college, at a much younger age than other young people. If they are to succeed and prosper care...

Child abuse and neglect in the UK today

This report presents new research findings from the NSPCC on child maltreatment in the United Kingdom, looking specifically at the prevalence and impact of severe maltreatment. We found that the...

Help is at Hand

This guide has been produced to help people who are unexpectedly bereaved following the suicide or sudden, traumatic death of a friend or relative. It also provides information for healthcare and...

Health care for disabled children and young people

This review looks at what organisations told us they were doing to support the health care needs of disabled children and young people (aged 0-18 years), and their families and carers. We also asked...

Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection

Since the early days of the World Wide Web, pornography has been one of the most widely available forms of internet content. Freedom from prying eyes, human imagination and zero barriers to entry...

Progress in Child-Wellbeing: Building on what works

This report analyses the improvements to children’s lives during the past two decades in five sectors: health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and child protection. The extraordinary...

Improving and Safeguarding Social Wellbeing

This strategy for Social Work in Northern Ireland sets out a vision and agenda for action for social work and social workers in improving and safeguarding the social wellbeing of individuals,...

Constructing an inclusive institutional structure

The task of constructing an inclusive institutional culture and intercultural competences in social services currently raises a highly topical question: what will be the future of social cohesion in...

Sustainable health and social care

This report provides an overview of what is currently known about the environmental impacts of health and social care, before examining the evidence for a connection between sustainability,...

EU Framework of Law for Children’s Rights

The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of the EU situation with respect to the rights of the child. In recent years, the EU has adopted a number of important measures, with the Lisbon...

BASW: UK Supervision Policy

The purpose of the supervision policy is to clarify what BASW considers to be the professional rights of social workers in relation to supervision and the responsibilities of the agency, the worker...

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