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BASW England Consultation Response: The Lives We Want to Lead. The LGA green paper for adult social care and wellbeing.

The British Association of Social Workers is the strong and independent voice for social work with over 20,000 members. BASW welcomes the opportunity to join the consultation regarding the LGA paper...

Britain’s Brexit hopes, fears and expectations

Authors: John Curtice, Muslihah Albakri, Allison Dunatchik and Neil Smith Relatively little research has been done on voters’ perceptions of the long-term consequences of Brexit or what it is...

Improving access and continuity in general practice

Authors: William Palmer, Nina Hemmings, Rebecca Rosen, Eilís Keeble, Sally Williams and Candace Imison As the Improving Access to General Practice programme rolls out across England – with additional...

Understanding childhood adversity, resilience and crime

What have ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) got to do with Justice? Everything. This paper sets out a summary of the evidence on the links between childhood adversity and victimisation and...

Prison Health: Twelfth Report of Session 2017–19

The state of health and care in English prisons The Government is failing in its duty of care towards people detained in England’s prisons. Too many prisoners remain in unsafe, unsanitary and...

Putting Health into Place

Places where people live have a significant impact on their mental and physical health but that impact is too often negative. Many high streets are dominated by fast-food takeaways. Driving is often...

The International Development Fund: Aims and process

The International Development Fund The BASW AGM in 2014 agreed a levy on the membership of £2.00 per member to establish the International Development Fund (IDF). The Fund was created in the...

Amending the 2012 Act: can it be done?

The Prime Minister has once again opened the door to changes to the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Act is widely seen as dysfunctional, getting in the way of the more integrated care that it in...

Shifting the centre of gravity

In 2016, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Local Government Association (LGA), NHS Clinical Commissioners and the NHS Confederation published ‘Stepping up to the...

Priorities for Adult Social Work Research

Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults (England) One of my long-standing priorities since taking up my post as Chief Social Worker has been to encourage the development and use of research and...

The health care workforce in England: Make or break?

NHS leaders will shortly publish a long-term plan, which will set out their ambitions for the health service in the context of the recent funding settlement. We also await the outcome from the...

BASW Cymru promotion poster (Welsh)

Download, print and share our Welsh language poster promoting BASW Cymru.

BASW Cymru student promotional poster (Welsh)

Download, print and share our Welsh language poster promoting BASW Cymru to students

BASW Cymru BeBASW member benefits promotional poster (Welsh)

Download, print and share our Welsh language poster promoting BASW Cymru member benefits.

BASW Code of Ethics poster Wales (Welsh)

Download, print and share our Welsh language poster promoting the BASW Code of Ethics .

Domestic abuse: how to get help

Anyone can be a victim of domestic abuse, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexuality or background. There are different kinds of abuse that can happen in different...

Mapping the evidence about what works to safely reduce the number of children and young people in statutory care: a systematic scoping review

The steadily increasing annual numbers of children and young people in care in the UK are of significant current concern. While there will always be some children who need out-of-home care, there are...

Signs of Safety: Findings from a mixed-methods systematic review focussed on reducing the need for children to be in care

Aims • To consider whether, how, for whom and under what conditions Signs of Safety works to safely reduce the number of children entering and re-entering care, and/or to increase the number of...

Protecting children from criminal exploitation, human trafficking and modern slavery: an addendum

This report is about the findings from three joint targeted area inspections, carried out in the spring of 2018 that examined ‘the multi-agency response to child exploitation and children missing...

Survival and Beyond: The Domestic Abuse Report 2017

Authors: Sarah Davidge and Lizzie Magnusson Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children in England. Women’s Aid holds five national data sources for...

Knife crime in England and Wales

Authors: Grahame Allen and Lukas Audickas “Knife” crime, crime involving an object with a blade or sharp instrument, is a persistent and worrying concern, especially as it impacts particularly upon...

Mental health and behaviour in schools

This is non-statutory, departmental advice from the Department for Education (DfE). Mental health problems affect many people, and most schools will have pupils who need mental health support. This...

My Marriage My Choice

Authors: Anne Patterson, Rachael Clawson, Michelle McCarthy, Rachel Fyson and Deborah Kitson The My Marriage My Choice project (a two-year study funded by the National Institute for Health Research,...

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Evidence-based early years intervention: Eleventh Report of Session 2017–19

Early intervention is a loosely-defined term that refers to taking action to resolve problems as soon as possible, before they become more difficult to reverse. In this Report, we consider early...

Joint Inspection of the Handling of Cases Involving Disability Hate Crime

1.1 In 2013, Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) published a joint report of the...

Letting local systems lead

Both the NHS and local authority-commissioned social care face significant challenges as a result of a sustained period of financial austerity. Moreover, the pressures are likely to continue with a...

Between work and care: Older women’s economic empowerment

Authors: Fiona Samuels, Emma Samman, Abigail Hunt, Lucia Rost and Georgia Plank Key messages • Women’s economic empowerment has increasingly gained the attention of policymakers in the years since...

Sector-led improvement in public health: Progress and potential

The transfer of public health responsibilities in 2013 brought public health services into the established local government SLI regime. For a summary of key publications and resources relating to the...

Multi-Professional Roles within the Transforming Primary Care Model in Wales

Social care in prisons in England and Wales

Even the most psychologically robust and able-bodied man or woman finds being imprisoned to be a disturbing experience. And for those men and women who are imprisoned, but who need assistance with...

Bullying in England, April 2013 to March 2018

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is conducted by the Office for National Statistics. Around 35,000 households across England and Wales are invited to participate in the survey each year...

Key messages from research on intra-familial child sexual abuse

Authors: Di McNeish and Sara Scott Intra-familial child sexual abuse refers to child sexual abuse (CSA) that occurs within a family environment. Perpetrators may or may not be related to the child...

Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017

This survey series provides England’s best source of data on trends in child mental health. Major surveys of the mental health of children and young people in England were carried out in 1999, 2004,...

Children of the millennium

Authors: Leslie Morrison Gutman, Heather Joshi, Lorraine Khan and Ingrid Schoon This report sets out the key findings of a project on children’s behaviour or conduct problems undertaken jointly by...

A space to talk

Authors: Graham Durcan and Juliet Snell The WISH Centre was founded around 15 years ago to support young people who were selfharming and has developed into a communitybased service to support young...

Leadership in integrated care systems: Report prepared for the NHS Leadership Academy

The NHS Leadership Academy commissioned SCIE to undertake this research to further expand the understanding of systems leadership and leadership of integrated care systems. This research will inform...

BASW ECard

Support a homeless shelter with a Christmas eCard this year Share your festive wishes and support people facing homelessness by sharing our eCard and making a donation of your choice to the BASW...

Developing and sustaining an effective local SEND system

Authors: Ben Bryant and Beth Swords In recent years, there has been an increasing public focus on the nature and quality of support provided to children and young people with special educational...

Early education and childcare resource pack

A child’s earliest years are their foundation; if we give them a great start, they have a much better chance of fulfilling their potential as they grow up. As councils, we have a big role to play...

Anti-bullying week

Authors: Rob Long, Jennifer Brown and Alexander Bellis This House of Commons Library briefing has been published in anticipation of the debate on Anti-bulling week, sponsored by Daniel Zeichner MP...

Improving wellbeing in schools

Evidence suggests that the physical and mental wellbeing of our children and young people is deteriorating. There is also growing concern for the mental health and wellbeing of teaching staff...

Smoking, drinking and drug use among hard to reach children and young people; an evidence synthesis report

This rapid review was produced by the Risk Factors Intelligence’s Evidence Synthesis Team for the Public Health England (PHE) Population Health Survey Board. The report examined the prevalence of...

Bright Futures: Getting the best for children, young people and families: One Year On

It is now a year since we launched Bright Futures, our vision for the future of children’s social care. Alongside a national campaign calling for the services that change children’s lives to be...

Making homeless young people count: The scale of youth homelessness in the UK

The Government does not currently publish national data illustrating how many young people seek help as they are homeless in the UK. Without this information, locally and nationally, it is not...

The lives we want to lead: Findings, implications and recommendations on the LGA green paper for adult social care and wellbeing

Responses to the consultation demonstrate an unequivocal view of the importance of adult social care and support. That importance is defined in different ways. Some frame social care as a moral...

Right treatment, right time

For the first time, this report sets out a clear picture of the significant gap in access to health services for people severely affected by mental illness. A survey conducted by Rethink Mental...

Equally Safe: Year One Update Report

Violence against women and girls is a fundamental violation of human rights. It has no place in our vision for a safe, strong and successful Scotland. Equally Safe is Scotland’s Strategy to prevent...

Public attitudes to care experienced young people

Authors: Diana Bardsley, Ian Montagu and Susan Reid The Life Changes Trust is proud to have funded Scotland’s first major survey on public attitudes towards people with experience of care. While care...

Domestic Violence in England and Wales

Authors: Pat Strickland and Grahame Allen How big is the problem? The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates of domestic abuse are based on a relatively broad definition covering male...

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...

Child sexual abuse in residential schools: A literature review

Authors: Marcus Ward and Holly Rodger The purpose of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA or ‘the Inquiry’) is to investigate whether public bodies and other non-state institutions...

Alcohol Framework 2018: Preventing Harm

Updating the 2009 Framework for Action Scotland’s 2009 alcohol strategy, the Framework for Action, is well established. Many of our original actions have been completed, with others continuing and...
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BASW England Committee Meeting 31st October 2018

Policing and Mental Health: Picking Up the Pieces

The police respond to people in mental health crisis every day. It is important for the police to recognise as early as possible that they may be responding to someone with mental health problems...

Investigation into thev provision of mental health care to patients presenting at the emergency department

The reference safety event Diane, a 57-year-old woman with a history of mental health problems, was in the care of the community mental health service. As her mental state fluctuated, she experienced...

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