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Quality improvement in mental health

All health care organisations in the NHS are required to improve their quality of care. For example, one of the key lines of enquiry used by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to establish if an...

Strengths-based social work practice with adults

In January 2017 the Chief Social Worker for Adults in collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence hosted a roundtable event at SCIE to explore what strengths-based social work with...

Suicide by Children and Young People: National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness

We carried out this study to find the common themes in the lives of young people who die by suicide. We wanted to identify possible sources of stress and to examine the role of support services. We...

Making Connections: Understanding how local agencies can better keep missing children safe

When children go missing it is a sign that things are not well in their lives. They may be running away from neglect at home, and there is a risk that they may be hurt or exploited whilst missing...

The Knowledge Gap: Safeguarding missing children in Wales

During 2015/16, almost 4,500 children in Wales went missing from home or care. Some of these children will have gone missing only once, while others will have experienced multiple missing episodes...

The Annual Bullying Survey 2017

Welcome to The Annual Bullying Survey 2017; our fifth and largest edition. With over 10,000 young people taking part this year, we have been able to shed light on some of the biggest bullying-related...

Briefing report on the roundtable on children who go missing and are criminally exploited by gangs

Children and young people who go missing from home or care are at serious risk of being targeted for involvement in gangs, trafficking, criminalisation, sexual exploitation and violence. Recognising...

The fostering system in England: Evidence review

In the summer of 2016 the government announced a national ‘stocktake’ of fostering in England to reach a better understanding of the current system and where improvements can be made. This review was...

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales Annual Report 2016–17

This report describes the activities of HM Inspectorate of Prisons and sets out in broad terms our findings across the various types of detention on which we report. I would like to pay tribute to...

Social Work Education in the 2017 Academic Year: Information for HEIs and Students

Improving the quality of social work education, maintaining the supply of social workers and ensuring a return for the taxpayer remain high priorities for the Government and the Chief Social Workers...

Advancing Care: Research with care homes

Over 400,000 older people live in 19,000 independently owned care homes in the UK. Care homes are very mixed, and include care homes with nursing (the minority, where nursing staff work in the home)...

The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework 2016/17: Handbook of Definitions

The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework Handbook of Definitions sets out the detailed definition for each measure. The measures contained in this handbook have been developed in recent years by the...

The Right to Decide: Towards a greater understanding of mental capacity and deprivation of liberty

Making decisions in the best interest of people who lack mental capacity, is a complex and often sensitive issue for the family members involved. Often the decision to restrict a person’s freedom -...

Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing

The Arts for Health and Wellbeing The creative impulse is fundamental to the experience of being human. We might express this through art, craft, creative writing, dance, design (including...

Unmet need for care

Background, objectives and methodology Previous research has highlighted unmet need for social care among older people. In 2017 Age UK calculated that there are 1.2 million older people who don’t...

Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework e-guide: Better Questions Safer Care

The MMSF e-guide is intended for health and care organisations to help improve how patient safety is measured and monitored. The e-guide builds on the 2013 research report, The measurement and...

Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing: The Short Report

The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing. A substantial report, Creative Health, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and...

Safe Families for Children

Safe Families for Children originated in Chicago, Illinois, in 2003, an innovation of the Christian charity: Lydia Homes. It provides vulnerable families with 3 types of family support: respite for...

Sam's Story: Listening to children and young people’s experiences of bullying in Wales

It was 2003 when the first Children’s Commissioner, Peter Clarke, spoke in his Annual Report and Accounts about how ‘bullying is a subject that almost always comes up during my conversations with...

Analysing repeated referrals to children’s services in England

This study seeks to ascertain the characteristics and factors underlying the propensity of children who have been referred to Children’s Services (CS) to have multiple referrals within a given time...

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2017

This report examines changes in the distribution of household incomes in the UK, and the determinants and consequences of recent trends. This includes analysing not only changes in average living...

Integrating health and care: How do you know your council is actively promoting integration of health and social care?

Integrated care is about taking a personcentred approach so that care and support is coordinated so all those providing care work together to help people achieve what is important to them. Lead...

Preventing the Deaths of Women in Prison – initial results of a rapid information gathering exercise by the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody

In 2016 there were 12 self-inflicted deaths in women's prisons in England - the highest number recorded since 2004. In response to these tragic deaths, and in order to prevent further deaths, at the...

Child sexual expoitation prevention education

With their ability to reach the largest number of children and young people, schools have the potential to play an invaluable role in preventative education (Beckett et al 2013; The Education and...

Outreach work: Child sexual exploitation

This briefing is based on a rapid review of the available literature on outreach work with children and young people. It is intended to provide the ReachOut project with an overview of different...

Direct work with sexually exploited or at risk children and young people

This review is intended to provide Barnardo’s with an overview of what ‘direct work’ with young people entails in the context of CSE. Part one explores the nature, types and contexts of direct work...

Breaking the dependency cycle: Tackling health inequalities of vulnerable families

Across Western Europe the marked increase in life expectancy in recent decades is not always correlated to life spent in good health; indeed, the greater the income disparities within a country the...

Work and relationships over time in lone-mother families

What makes employment possible for lone mothers? How do they manage to stay in work and manage family life? What is it like for children to grow up in a family with a working lone parent? This...
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Minutes of the one hundred and twenty eighth meeting of Council held on Monday, 10th July 2017

SASW Response to Equal Protection from Assault (Scotland) Bill Consultation

Allegations of domestic abuse in child contact cases

This report sets out the findings of a small-scale study undertaken by Cafcass, with Women’s Aid, looking at domestic abuse allegations in 216 child contact cases. The purpose of the study was to...

Inpatient Provision for Children and Young People with Mental Health Problems

Over the past year, the Education Policy Institute has been exploring children and young people’s mental health care in England. We have highlighted some of the challenges facing the system, such as...

Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions

It is very common for people to experience problems with their mental health and alcohol/drug use (co-occurring conditions) at the same time. Research shows that mental health problems are...

‘This is my home’: Securing permanent status for long-term resident children and young people in the UK

In 2012 it was estimated that there were 120,000 undocumented children in the UK, 65,000 of whom were born here. Many of these children are lived in the UK their whole lives, not realising that their...

Children’s Services Omnibus: Wave 1 Research Report

This report presents the findings from the first wave of the new DfE Children’s Services Omnibus Survey. The survey explored senior local authority (LA) leaders’ perceptions on, and activities...

Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in Social Work

Supporting Mental Health in Schools and Colleges

Mental health problems cause distress to individuals and those who care for them. The Prime Minister has said that mental health is one of the “greatest social challenges of our time”. Overall, it is...

Safeguarding and radicalisation

The Department for Education commissioned this study in the context of the new and emerging nature of this area of practice for safeguarding professionals. The aim of the research was to develop a...

The Evaluation of the Adoption Support Fund

Following 10 local authority prototype projects, the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) was introduced across England in May 2015. Between May 2015 and February 2017 10,231 families were funded to receive a...

Growing Places: Building local public services for the future

We are in an unprecedented time for our nation. The coming years will bring some of the biggest changes seen in a generation. The new Government faces a changed and changing world: the negotiations...

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