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Coping with Court

Despite rising applications to take children into care and a widespread public perception that it is all too easy, removing vulnerable children from abusive parents is a challenging process and...

Council for Disabled Children Inclusion Policy

CDC supports the social model of disability. The social model defines disability as arising from the interaction between someone with an impairment and the barriers that exist in the environment: the...

Courting appeal

Lynn Roberts, a district judge in a family court, tells Sally Gillen what marks out the best social workers in court and how others might go about improving their testimonies under intense examination

Hidden in Plain Sight

Dealing with disability-related harassment is not going to be solved just by better policing. It’s going to take concerted, joined up effort by a significant number of public authorities, with proper...

Growing up in Russia

Attending a conference in Moscow recently, BASW’s Sue Kent discovered that social work has come a long way in Russia since its formal recognition in the early 1990s and while practice in areas such...

Growing Up

This report, Growing up, moves on from Stuck in the middle to look at the 16–25 age group – a time of tumultuous change and great challenges for all young people, made all the more difficult as a...

Grasping the nettle: early intervention for children, families and communities

Early intervention is a force for transforming the lives of children, families and communities, particularly the most disadvantaged. Its importance today in terms of policy and practice owes as much...

Dealing with risk

A reflection on forensic social work, focused on social work’s role in mental health inquiries and in assessing risk, drawing on a discussion that took place during a BASW Forensic Social Work...

Deprivation and risk: the case for early intervention

This report is part of a series by Action for Children on the overriding importance of intervening as early as we can to support our most vulnerable children and their families. The deprivation these...

Developing a business case for early interventions and evaluating their value for money

In the context of increased debate about early interventions in the UK, the Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to produce guidance...

Devolution’s impact on low-income people and places

What is the impact of devolution for people and places in poverty? For the tenth anniversary of devolution a series of reports and seminars explored trends in social and economic disadvantage as well...

Devon multi-agency safeguarding hub

The MASH model offers a more consistent, timely and unified multi-agency response to individual situations, rather than children’s social care services making unilateral decisions in response to...

Giving more weight to protection

With reviews and inquests underway into recent child protection failures, Jean Robinson says flawed legislation is fundamental to tackling systemic weaknesses and that changes are vital to shift the...

Giving children a healthy start

Children have a right to enjoy the best possible health, but there are significant differences in their experiences. Children under five years living in deprived areas are 8 per cent more likely to...

Getting it Right for Children in Residential Care

We examined how effectively councils use their resources on residential placements for their looked after children and identified areas for improvement.

Getting it right for children and young people

Many people who work in and use the NHS would agree that the services provided do not measure up to the needs of children and young people. They are not good enough in a number of ways.

Getting ahead

As governments, taskforces, task groups and more enlightened employers consider how to advance the status and performance of social workers, social care journalist Sally Gillen dips her toe in the...

Future Insecure

Secure children’s homes provide the highest standards of care and rehabilitation for the few children in trouble with the law who have to be detained in custody. Yet they have been the victim of a...

Funding social care: what service users say

Service users have not been adequately involved in discussions about the future funding of social care, yet they are the people most affected by these decisions. This Viewpoint reports the views of a...

Funding Adult Social Care in England

Social care in England is funded through: central government funds allocated to the local council; council tax revenues; individuals’ contributions to their council care package, and/or to services...

From Vision to Action

We were asked to consider the provision of social services over the coming decade and to look particularly at: the development of professional practice; building inclusive social services; effecting...

From the inside out

Neil W Jones, a social worker in the Youth Offending Service, outlines the challenges and rewards of working alongside some of the most disaffected young people in the country, highlighting, in...

From Safety Net to Springboard

Care and support should be everyone’s concern. It should engage individuals, families and communities, business and employers, planners, house builders and all providers of public services, from...

Forty years since Seebohm

The second of a series of seminars jointly organised by Making Research Count (MRC) and the Social Work History Network (SWHN) discussed the implementation of the hugely influential Seebohm report in...

Focus on forensic social work

Terry Henson, Sarah Whittall and Diane Pattinson of the St Andrew’s Healthcare Men’s Service reveal the findings of their study on the nature of forensic social work practice.

Financial management of personal budgets 

This report reviews the challenges in setting up personal budgets and illustrates good practice in meeting those challenges.

Family justice review: interim report

Every year 500,000 children and adults are involved in the family justice system. They turn to it at times of great stress and conflict. The issues faced by the system are hugely difficult, emotional...

Family Justice Review Final Report

This is our final report, which reflects our conclusions following well over 600 responses to our consultation and input from meetings in many parts of the country.

Families with children in Britain: Findings from the 2008 Families and Children Study (FACS)

The 2008 Families and Children Study (FACS) is the last in a series of ten annual surveys to investigate the circumstances of British families with dependent children.

Fairer Care Funding Volume 1

This is a set of proposals that will concentrate help on those with the greatest needs, give peace of mind to all and create a new partnership between the public and private public and voluntary...

Living Well in Later Life

By working together, the three commissions were able to build a picture of the whole system of services that older people use from care services to services that contribute towards wellbeing and...

Local Authority Child Poverty Innovation Pilot Second Synthesis Report

The Local Authority Child Poverty Innovation Pilot (LAIP) was established by Child Poverty Unit (CPU) in 2009 and ends in March 2011. Ten local authorities were successful in their proposals for...

Local Authority Child Poverty Innovation Pilot

This is the first report from the national evaluation of the Child Poverty Local Authority Innovation Pilot (LAIP). The Pilot was announced in Ending child poverty: everybody’s business (HMT, 2008)...

Local authority child poverty innovation pilot evaluation: Third synthesis report

This is the third report of the national evaluation of the Local Authority Child Poverty Innovation Pilot (LAIP). The programme trials locally appropriate and innovative approaches to addressing...

Lone parents and employment: an exploration of findings from the Families and Children Study 2006-08

The rise in child poverty in the decade leading up to 1999 has, in part, been attributed to the increase in workless lone parent households. Research has consistently pointed at parental worklessness...

Loneliness compendium: Examples from research and practice

Major life transitions may lead to increased risk of loneliness (for example relocation, bereavement, retirement, break up or loss of important relationships), as may situations which make someone...

Looked-after Children 2008

Time in care is generally seen by professionals and the wider public as something to be avoided at all costs. Despite the dedication and perseverance of social workers and carers, the outcomes and...

Low-income neighbourhoods in Britain

The report examines some of the principles and assumptions behind policies concerned with place, poverty and welfare introduced by the Coalition Government and considers how they connect with the...

Making it real

Personalisation is rooted in the belief that people want to have a life not a service. Making it Real is a framework and a set of statements that describe what good, citizen-focused, personalised...

Making the personalisation of care and support work for all communities in the English regions

Personalisation represents a range of approaches to service delivery with a number of services introduced to support the personalisation agenda. These include: person centred planning, self-directed...

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