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Young People & Gambling 2018

The latest annual survey by the Gambling Commission to explore gambling behaviour among young people in Great Britain found that 14% of 11-16 year olds had spent their own money on a gambling...

Children’s Mental Health briefing

This year’s briefing takes a close look at community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provision. For each area in England, I analyse spending on CAMHS, numbers receiving treatment...

Time for action on perinatal mental health care in Northern Ireland

Authors: Caroline Cunningham and Susan Galloway with Mary Duggan and Shona Hamilton This report sets out the findings of a study exploring health visitors’ and midwives’ roles and experiences of...

Mental Capacity Act materials from Dr Terry McClatchey – BASW PPEG (Adults)

Exploratory analyses of the rates of children looked after in English local authorities (2010-2017)

A priority for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care is reducing the need for children to be in care. The aim of this study was to inform the intervention research and systematic reviews...

Review of Adult Social Care Complaints 2017-2018

I’m pleased to present our Annual Review of Adult Social Care Complaints for 2017-18 alongside our complaints data. Sharing the learning from complaints is an important focus of this report, we...

2018 community mental health survey: Statistical release

Community mental health services provide care and treatment for people who need mental health care over and above the services provided by primary care. Community mental health teams (CMHTs) support...

Young people, violence and knives - revisiting the evidence and policy discussions

Authors: Roger Grimshaw and Matt Ford As well as providing an update on recent trends in the phenomenon of ‘knife crime’, this briefing seeks to review the subsequent development of policy themes...

A vision for population health: Towards a healthier future

Authors: David Buck, Alex Baylis, Durka Dougall and Ruth Robertson • Substantial improvements in health over the past 100 years mean that people are living longer and healthier lives than ever before...

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...
Member content

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...

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