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Mixed Communities

There are a number of reasons why mixed communities might be attractive: to promote a more egalitarian or socially cohesive society; to encourage racial or religious integration; and to create more ‘...

Living in Children’s Residential Homes Summary

Residential care for children looked after by local authorities has changed significantly in recent years. The sector has shrunk in size and it now caters mainly for an older troubled and troublesome...

Living in Children's Residential Homes

This short study provides an insight into the nature of children’s residential homes, the characteristics and circumstances of the young people who live in them and on the short-term outcomes for...

How is parenting style related to child antisocial behaviour?

This study examined in detail 278 families living in inner city areas who had children at higher risk of poor social and academic outcomes due to antisocial behaviour. The children were aged 4-7,...

Evaluation of the Staying Put: 18+ Family Placement Pilot Programme Interim Report

Care Matters: Time for Change proposed piloting arrangements to provide young people „who have an established familial relationship with their foster carers the opportunity to continue to stay with...

Human Rights Review 2012

This landmark review assesses how well these rights are protected in Britain. It is the first review of its kind since the introduction of the Human Rights Act, and takes the opportunity to look at...

An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay

In this Action Plan, we set out our proposals for tackling delay in the adoption system. It outlines what this Government intends to do to accelerate the whole adoption process so that more children...

High Need Families Project: Development and piloting a new parenting intervention (The Helping Families Programme) for children with severe and persistent conduct problems.

The Helping Families Programme is targeted specifically at the small but significant number of families with multiple problems, where chaotic parenting is likely to give rise to disruptive antisocial...

Workforce risks and opportunities: Social workers

This information has been collated to provide an overview of the supply and demand of social workers over the next three to five years. It considers the key factors influencing the estimation of...

Your Human Rights: A guide for disabled people

This guide provides practical information about human rights, and their relevance to disabled people. It is written directly for disabled people. The guide will also be useful for people working with...

Your Human Rights: A guide for people living with mental health problems

This guide provides practical information about human rights, and their relevance to mental health. It is written directly for people living with mental health problems. The guide will also be useful...

Your Human Rights: a guide for refugees and asylum seekers

This guide provides practical information about human rights, and their relevance for refugees and asylum seekers. It is written directly for refugees and asylum seekers. The guide will also be...

Your Human Rights: A guide for older people

This guide provides practical information about human rights, and their relevance to older people. It is written directly for older people. The guide will also be useful for people working with older...

Younger Children's Views

The Children's Rights Director for England has the duty by law to ask children and young people in care for their views about their rights their welfare and how they are looked after in England.

Young People’s Aspirations in Rural Areas

The LG Group commissioned the NFER to research young people’s aspirations in three rural local authorities (LAs): Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cumbria. The aim was to explore the influence and impact of...

Young people, alcohol and the media

This report presents findings of a mixed-method study exploring how alcohol is represented in media consumed by young people, young people’s own interpretations of these representations, and the...

Working together for older people in rural areas

Older people in rural areas are generally considered better off than those in urban areas. However, this study reveals that those who are vulnerable or at risk of social exclusion experience rates of...

Working for personalised care

This document provides a framework for supporting the development of the PA workforce and their employers over the next five years and beyond.

Work and worklessness in deprived neighbourhoods

This study contrasts policy assumptions about work and worklessness with the personal experiences of residents living in deprived neighbourhoods.

Women, faith and social cohesion

This report examines the role of women and faith in building cohesive communities and provides models for developing and evaluating social cohesion activity.

Why we should embrace the target culture

Seamus Logan, Assistant Director of the new Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Board, offered the keynote address to the BASW Northern Ireland Annual Meeting in May, urging social workers to...

Why social work can’t ignore obesity

Jacob Kornbeck highlights why rising levels of obesity in society are an issue that social work needs to grapple with urgently if it is to support often vulnerable people in making decisions in the...

What works in combating childhood obesity: an anthology of the literature on effective whole-system approaches

This anthology aims to support the East Midlands Joint Regional Improvement and Efficiency Plan (JRIEP) by providing an overview of current best available evidence of effective multi-agency and...

What does the Local Child Poverty Measure tell us about the distribution of child poverty in England?

This paper explores what local level child poverty data can tell us about the distribution of child poverty in England and how child poverty rates at these lower geographies have changed over time,...

Voluntary beginnings

How the interventions of church-based voluntary organisations helped shape the social work of today, drawing on a Social Work History Network meeting in which speakers reflected on Victorian era...

Virtual Violence II

The latest findings from Beatbullying reveal that 28% of 11-to-16-year-olds have been deliberately targeted, threatened or humiliated by an individual or group through the use of mobile phones or the...

Virtual Violence

Children and young people have long been highlighting how cyberbullying is one of the main challenges they have to face within the digital world. This report explores in detail some of the risks and...

Understanding the children’s social care workforce

We were asked by central government to help them to better understand the core roles and skills required in children’s social care, to set out how these could be supported and also to identify...

Understanding Society

Understanding Society represents a step-change in the ambition of social scientific research. As a longitudinal social survey, it will provide a unique and enduring window on British.

Understanding resources in later life

Increased numbers of older people, living for longer, will require increased resources to support their health, mobility and care, as well as their incomes. At the same time, poverty among the...

UK Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People: Qualitative Findings

This study explored a wide variety of different experiences of mistreatment. All five types of mistreatment addressed in the survey (neglect, physical, psychological, financial, sexual) were included.

Turning the tables

The pressure on social workers to perform against sometimes overbearing pressures has long been a serious grievance of frontline professionals. But as BASW’s 5 Star Employer Engagement Plan gains...

Turning around the lives of families with multiple problems - an evaluation of the Family and Young Carer Pathfinders Programme

The Family Pathfinder programme launched in 2007 aimed to develop local responses to the needs of families who face multiple and complex social, economic, health and child problems. Twenty seven...

Leading lights of social work

The Social Work History Network (SWHN) recently celebrated its tenth birthday by honouring the work of just some of the influential social reformers and social workers of the nineteenth and twentieth...

Computer says 'misery'

Pressure from the Social Work Taskforce and constant criticisms from frustrated social workers led to a Department for Children Schools and Families decision to revise guidance on the future of the...

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...

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...

Evaluation of the Staying Put: 18 Plus Family Placement Programme: Final report

The Staying Put: 18+ Family Placement Programme pilot (staying put) began in 11 local authorities in July 2008 and ended in March 2011. Staying put is targeted at young people who have ‘established...

Staying Put 18+ Family Placement Programme

National Care Advisory Service - Staying Put The Staying Put: 18+ Family Placement Programme offers young people in foster care the opportunity to remain with their carers until they reach 21, so...

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