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A day in the life of social work

What does a day in the life of an average social worker actually look like, and how does it feel? What are the stresses and strains? What are the rewards that keep practitioners doing their jobs,...

Nature for health and equity

Europeans face health and social challenges that merit urgent attention – obesity, mental health problems, social exclusion, air and noise pollution, and heat stress in cities. These issues...

Sustainability and Transformation Plan Questionnaire Report

Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are the platform on which the Five Year Forward View of NHS planning is being taken forward in England. The Five Year Forward View envisages a radical...

Preventing Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

This paper intends to provide teachers, educators and the wider school workforce with practical guidelines on how to prevent children and young people from developing mental health problems as a...

Rights resources for professionals working with young people

This briefing contains a range of resources on young people’s rights for use by professionals working with young people. It includes not only resources on health and social care rights, but also...

The dementia challenge for LGBT communities

Speakers stressed that people’s past experiences of prejudice affect their perception of support. “The generation of older people that we’re seeing come into the care sector have lived through...

The mental health of children and young people in London

The emotional health and wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health and wellbeing. Over the past few years there has been a growing recognition of the need to make dramatic...

Disasters and violence against women and girls: Can disasters shake social norms and power relations?

The destruction and loss caused by disasters affect multiple aspects of people’s well-being, both physically and socially. Effects are manifested in health and living conditions, as well as in...

What is known about the placement and outcomes of siblings in foster care?

The Children and Young Persons Act (2008) places a duty on Local Authorities to accommodate siblings together in care, so far as is reasonably practicable and subject to welfare considerations...

Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2016: Results and trends from the British Social Attitudes survey

Since 1983, NatCen Social Research’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has asked members of the public – rather than only patients – about their views on, and feelings towards, the NHS and health...

Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward view

1. Next year the NHS turns 70. New treatments for a growing and aging population mean that pressures on the service are greater than they have ever been. But treatment outcomes are far better - and...

Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (NG66)

This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal justice system. It aims to improve mental health and...

Meeting us where we're at: Learning from INTEGRATE’s work with excluded young people

The MAC-UK INTEGRATE model was first developed in Camden, 2008, from the founding principle that services need to meet young people where they are at. The lessons learned at that project, Music...

Informed Choice? Giving women control of their healthcare

The group has conducted this inquiry as we want to focus on issues that affect huge numbers of women across the UK. We are looking at two conditions that are extremely common, yet have little...

2017-19 Integration and Better Care Fund

This document sets out the story of integration of health, social care and other public services. It provides an overview of related policy initiatives and legislation. It includes the policy...

Building the future social care workforce: a scoping study into workforce readiness, recruitment and progression in the social care sector

This report presents the findings of a scoping study into workforce readiness, recruitment and progression in the social care sector, with a specific focus on East London. The research was carried...

Integration 2020: Scoping research

‘The Spending Review sets out an ambitious plan so that by 2020 health and social care are integrated across the country. Every part of the country must have a plan for this in 2017, implemented by...

Childhood obesity: follow-up

We looked at childhood obesity in the autumn of 2015, anticipating the publication of the Government’s childhood obesity plan. We concluded that the scale and consequences of childhood obesity demand...

Mental Health Strategy: 2017-2027

Challenges with mental health have touched every life in Scotland: from a young person struggling in school, or a colleague absent from work, to an elderly relative living with dementia. We have all...

NIASW Annual Report 2016-2017

The NIASW Annual Report presented at their Annual Members Meeting on 21 March 2017.

Peer support and children and young people’s mental health

This report presents the findings from a literature review of available models of peer support that support and improve children and young people’s mental health, their key features and evidence of...

The impacts of abuse and neglect on children; and comparison of different placement options

In recent years the government has introduced a number of policy papers aimed at transforming the children's social care system. Much of this reform began in 2000 with the publication of Adoption: A...

Children missing education: Families’ experiences

This report summarises National Children’s Bureau (NCB) research into children missing education, which was funded by Lankelly Chase and took place between September 2015 and January 2017. The...

Peer support and children’s and young people’s mental health

It is the Government’s ambition that all young people achieve as well as they can academically and leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. Supporting them with managing their mental health...

Young people’s transition from children’s to adult services in primary and community care settings

The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) was funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing to deliver a comprehensive programme of work to improve the experience of a young person transitioning from children’s...

Health matters: obesity and the food environment

Nearly two-thirds of adults (63%) in England were classed as being overweight (a body mass index of over 25) or obese (a BMI of over 30) in 2015. In England, the proportion who were categorised as...

Child welfare inequalities projects (CWIP): project outputs

A number of new short reports and articles relating to child welfare inequalities are now available on the Coventry University CWIP web pages.

Adult social care: Ninth Report of Session 2016–17

Key facts • Fewer than one in twelve Directors of Adult Social Care are fully confident that their local authority will be able to meet its statutory duties in 2017–18 (Paragraph 13) • 28% of care...

Does the primary care home make a difference?: Understanding its impact

This report presents the key findings from an assessment of three Primary Care Home rapid test sites. These demonstrate that a wide range of financial and nonfinancial benefits can be released, with...

Tackling poverty through housing and planning policy in city regions

This report explores the potential for devolved institutions – local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and combined authorities as well as constituent local authorities – to reduce poverty through...

Tackling poverty through housing and planning policy in city regions: Summary

Housing and planning policy can play a key role in reducing or mitigating the risk of poverty. Yet there has been no comprehensive review of how city regional institutions in England can use their...

Low income pupils’ progress at secondary school

One of the great injustices of the British education system is that pupils from low income backgrounds are less likely to make good progress at secondary school compared to better off peers. The gap...

Policy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Overview

In September 2015, the international community agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that will guide development policy and practice at national, regional and global levels for the...

Clear the air for children: The impact of air pollution on children

Around 300 million children currently live in areas where the air is toxic – exceeding international limits by at least six times. Using satellite imagery of outdoor air pollution, this study found...

Living with depression

Becky Mason has suffered bouts of depression since her teens. Now aged 42, she has just come through her worst episode alone. In the first of a regular new section giving voice to service users, she...

OK computer?

A social worker happy with their IT system is almost an oxymoron. But why is this so, asks Matt Bee, and what’s the solution?

Breaking through the barriers

How should parents deal with challenging behaviour in their adopted children? A twelve year study reveals 80 per cent of adoption breakdowns are caused by violence toward parents or siblings.

The Tide of Humanity

It’s been described as a tragedy of biblical proportions. The plight of people seeking asylum in Europe has dominated the news for months. Faced with the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two,...

In defence of paperwork

Colin Green argues it’s not increased record-keeping in social work that’s the problem but the way it’s done

A father's fight for justice

Should fathers who commit domestic violence be allowed access to their children? A father convicted of assault argues the courts are not always making decisions that put the best interest of children...

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