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Nursing care for people experiencing homelessness

This report presents the expert knowledge and experience of Homeless Health Nurses and contributes to the evidence for meeting the health care needs of people who are homeless, giving clear...

SWU Newsletter December 2018/January 2019
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IDF individual application form
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IDF partnership application form

Bath Spa University/SWU working conditions consultation

BASW response to Public Accounts Committee inquiry into mental health services - Nov 2018

“A new settlement between carers and the state”

Author: Ben Glover The rise of the informal care economy is perhaps the most significant yet under-reported demographic shift in recent British history. We estimate there are now almost eight million...

Modernising the Mental Health Act: Increasing choice, reducing compulsion

Our terms of reference and interim report set out a number of reasons why we have carried out this Review. There is a clear case for change: the rate of detention is rising; the patient’s voice is...

Relationships matter: An analysis of complaints about social workers to the Northern Ireland Social Care Council and Patient and Client Council

Author: David Hayes This research project was originally jointly commissioned by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) and the British Association of Social Workers Northern Ireland (BASW...

Under Pressure – the impact of the changing environment on local government complaints

Over the last decade local government has gone through the most intense period of change in a generation. Significant budget reductions, changing demand on services, and technological advances have...

Mental health and wellbeing in schools

Authors: Robert Long, Alexander Bellis and Selena Steele On 4 December 2018, there will be a Westminster Hall debate on Mental health and wellbeing in schools, sponsored by Layla Moran MP. It is...

UK Poverty 2018

What you need to know Nearly half of children in lone parent families live in poverty, compared with one in four of those in couple families. Over the last five years, poverty rates for children in...

The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2017/18

This is my second Annual Report as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector. The education and care sectors have been criticised for lagging behind their counterparts in health or even criminal justice for not...

Children’s and young people’s experiences of loneliness: 2018

Analysis of children's and young people’s views, experiences and suggestions to overcome loneliness, using in-depth interviews, the Community Life Survey 2016 to 2017 and Good Childhood Index Survey...

Counting the Costs 2018

It is 10 years since we first asked families with disabled children about their finances. During that time disability and care costs have gone up while financial support offered through the social...

SASW Social Work Awards Flyer 2019

Flyer for the SASW Social Work Awards 2019.

BASW response to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) welcomes the publication of the Wessely review “Modernising the Mental Health Act: increasing choice, reducing compulsion” and we are pleased to see...

Slides from SW Role in Domestic Abuse Event

Improving the educational outcomes of Children in Need of help and protection

The ambition of the Children in Need review is that every child should have the opportunity to realise their potential, recognising that where children have faced adversity, trauma, or are disabled,...

The Children in Need of help protection: Call for Evidence

This paper summarises responses from the Children in Need Call for Evidence which ran from 16th March 2018 to 1st July 2018. The aim of the Call for Evidence was to hear from anyone working to...

What works to improve the educational outcomes of Children in Need of help and protection

The Government committed in its Manifesto to review support for Children in Need. As part of this work the Department for Education has published new data examining the characteristics, experiences...

Report on the Key Themes from the Mental Health Act Survey

Authors: Graham Durcan & Androulla Harris In October 2017, the Prime Minister commissioned an independent review of the Mental Health Act (1983). An Independent Review Panel was tasked with...

Home care in England

Authors: Laura Jefferson, Laura Bennett, Patrick Hall, Julia Cream, Veronica Dale, Matthew Honeyman, Yvonne Birks, Karen Bloor and Richard Murray This report aims to understand the key trends and...

Home care in England: Summary

Care is provided at home each year to more than 350,000 older people and 76,300 young people with disabilities. Commissioning and delivering the highest quality home care should be a significant...

Rough Sleeping Strategy: delivery plan

1. The Rough Sleeping Strategy sets out our plan to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it by 2027. It includes a range of commitments, intended both to help those who are sleeping on our streets or...

National Measurement of Loneliness: 2018

Loneliness is a feeling that most people will experience at some point in their lives. However, prolonged and extreme exposure to loneliness can seriously impact an individual’s well-being, and their...

Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV): Perpetrator Service Standards

The Welsh Government’s National Strategy and Delivery Framework sets out our plans for implementing the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) 2015 Act. These include the...
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Minutes of the one hundred and thirty sixth meeting of Council held on Wednesday, 21st November 2018

Parenting and pornography: findings from Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom

Exposure to pornography is recognised as a real risk for children online, ranking highly, alongside cyberbullying and contact with strangers. Pornography can negatively impact a young person’s mental...

The Care of Older People Manual by Dr Sue Thompson

The Learning from Practice Manual by Neil Thompson

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual Violence report into the Funding and Commissioning of Sexual Violence and Abuse Services 2018

Sexual violence and abuse support services have been described as at crisis point. Need and demand for their specialist services from victims and survivors of all forms of sexual violence and abuse...

No Safe Place: Restraint and Seclusion in Scotland's Schools

When I took office in May 2017, I asked children and young people what they want from their Commissioner. They told me, clearly and unequivocally, that they want me to stand up and speak out on their...

National Implementation Adviser for Care Leavers’ First Year Report: October 2017 to October 2018

When children and young people are taken into care, the State becomes their parent. And in fulfilling that role, the State needs to be as ambitious and aspirational as any other parent is for their...

Inquiry response - funding and provision of local authorities’ children’s services.

SWU worked in partnership with Dr Jermaine M Ravalier, Bath Spa University on the submission. The inquiry which closed on 18th December 2018 will investigate what impact public spending has had on...

A place to grow

Between the ages of 12 and 24, young people go through life-defining experiences and changes. Most aim to move through education into employment, become independent and leave home, and it is also a...

The housing crisis generation

The impacts of homelessness on children and young people can be extreme and extensive. Living in temporary accommodation or sofa-surfing often means constant insecurity and disruption to families’...

Robotics in Social Care

Using robotics has been suggested as one way to help improve the quality of UK social care and manage increasing pressures on services. This POSTnote describes robotic technology and outlines the...

The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce

The work of the Women’s Mental Health Taskforce The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce was set up in response to evidence of deteriorating mental health amongst women and poor outcomes experienced by...

Social Mobility Barometer

75% of respondents think that there is a large or very large gap between social classes in Britain today, in comparison to 14% who think that there is a small gap. In the North East, around five...

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