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Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults A Shared Responsibility

The development of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults – A Shared Responsibility, as Guidance primarily for voluntary, community and independent sector organisations, is part of an ongoing programme of...

After the riots

Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 August 2011 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Official Opposition...

Supporting families with complex needs: Findings from LARC4

This report also offers new evidence from more than 30 case studies, showing that even for children and families with much more complex needs, including those on the edge of care, it is still...

Targeting children's centre services on the most needy families

This report provides evidence of how children’s centres are targeting the most disadvantaged families. It explains how local authority and children’s centre staff are defining, identifying and...

Landing in Dover

Article 22 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) requires State Parties to take measures to ensure that children seeking asylum receive appropriate protection and...

Neglect: research evidence to inform practice

The government defines neglect as: ‘The persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child's health or development...

Gender Recognition Act 2004

An Act to make provision for and in connection with change of gender.

Civil Partnership Act 2004

An Act to make provision for and in connection with civil partnership.

Care Standards Act 2000

In summary this Act establishes a new, independent regulatory body for social care and private and voluntary healthcare services (“care services”) in England to be known as the National Care...

Child Poverty Act 2010

An Act to set targets relating to the eradication of child poverty, and to make other provision about child poverty.

Equality Act 2010

An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-...

Children and Adoption Act 2006

An Act to make provision as regards contact with children; to make provision as regards family assistance orders; to make provision about risk assessments; to make provision as regards adoptions with...

Forced Marriage etc. (Protection and Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Act 2011

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for protecting persons from being forced into marriage without their free and full consent and for protecting persons who have been forced into...

Living through Challenges in Low Income Neighbourhoods: Change, Continuity, Contrast

This document is the final report of the research project, Living through Change in Challenging Neighbourhoods, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in order to examine, through a mix of research...

Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland

This Executive Summary is drawn from the main Report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland. Part 1 of this summary outlines the nature, extent and...

The Framework for Continuous Learning in Social Services

The Continuous Learning Framework sets out what people in the social service workforce need to be able to do their job well now and in the future and describes what employers need to do to support...

Tackling chronic poverty

This synthesis paper attempts to focus on what is new or different; what is actionable; and what is strategic as far as addressing chronic poverty is concerned. This relates to the big development...

Personalisation: lessons from social care

The twin challenges of quality and funding loom large over the adult social care sector. Age UK has argued that the future sustainability of long term care will require a rise in public spending from...

Supervision and Workload Management for Social Work

Helping People Change Their Lives - the Social Work Manifesto for frontline staff in Scotland issued in 2009 by UNISON and BASW - has been universally welcomed. It has already resulted in some...

Practice Governance Framework

The Role of the Chief Social Work Officer The Role of the Registered Social Worker in Statutory Interventions: Guidance for Local Authorities Practice Governance Framework: Responsibility and...

A Social Work manifesto for UNISON and BASW members in Scotland

UNISON & BASW welcome the positive steps taken in Scotland to address the problems in Social Work in the past few years. These include : The 21st Century Review and the Changing Lives Report. The...

Keeping Safe in the Workplace

Helping People Change Their Lives - the UNISON and BASW Manifesto for social work members in Scotland recognises that people are essential to the quality of service provided. There is no doubt that...

State of Social Work Survey – Responses from Local Authorities

By 21 June seventeen local authorities in England had responded to letters from BASW to every council highlighting its State of Social Work campaign. You can read all their replies below. This...

Councils defend social work support in response to BASW poll

Among the 17 local authorities to respond to BASW’s State of Social Work survey at the time of going to press, many accepted that social workers were under pressure, particularly in children’s...

Government says it recognises BASW’s State of Social Work concerns

The minister responsible for social work in England has been joined by 17 local authorities [see facing page for more] in responding formally to BASW’s damning assessment of current practice...

Minister responds to the State of Social Work survey

BASW wrote to the Westminster secretaries of state for health and education, outlining its State of Social Work campaign and asking for their response. Children’s minister Tim Loughton, also...

Voices from the frontline

This document contains hundreds of comments from frontline social workers and managers about their working lives, the challenges they face and the concerns they have about the work and the people who...

BASW Code of Ethics poster Scotland

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster Wales

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster N. Ireland

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster England

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster Wales (Welsh language)

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

Supplementary written evidence submitted by the British Association of Social Workers

I gave evidence on 20 April 2016 at the Education Select Committee on Children’s Social Work Reform on behalf of British Association of Social Workers (BASW). I was very pleased to address the...

Critical drivers of change for child-sensitive development

The moral case for investing in children is compelling. In a world with resources, know-how and technology, it is morally unacceptable that we allow the levels of child deprivation that we see today...

A better future for families

In 2011, Addaction set up a commission of experts, chaired by David Burrowes MP, to study the impact of family-based interventions and to highlight the wealth of benefits that can be experienced by...

A choice by right

Forced marriage is an issue that is often misunderstood and misrepresented. The Working Group’s consultations showed a lack of understanding of what constitutes a forced marriage. From the outset the...

Sticks and stones may break my bones but being left on my own is worse

Since early 2010 the NFER has been working with both primary and secondary schools to allow them to survey their own pupils and better understand their views across a range of issues. With almost 100...

Monitoring and evaluation of family interventions (information on families supported to March 2010)

Intensive family interventions (formerly known as Family Intervention Projects or FIPs) work with the most challenging families and tackle issues such as anti-social behaviour, youth crime, inter-...

Multiple risk factors in young children’s development

This paper quantifies the prevalence of multiple risks for families with very young children in the UK, and their prevalence by ethnic groups.

Narrowing the gap in educational achievement and improving emotional resilience for children and young people with additional needs

This review aims to draw out the key ‘what works?’ messages with regard to narrowing the gap in educational achievement and improving emotional resilience (social skills, self-esteem and the ability...

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