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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...

Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

The UK is the world’s fifth largest economy, it contains many areas of immense wealth, its capital is a leading centre of global finance, its entrepreneurs are innovative and agile, and despite the...

Letter template BASW Cymru (Welsh)

Template letter for Cymru Social workers to ask AM's to meet and discuss the working conditions campaign. See the English version .

Working conditions - Cymru campaign flyer (Welsh)

The national protocol on reducing unnecessary criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers

1.1. This national protocol is aimed at local authority children’s services, local care providers (fostering services, children’s homes and other arrangements), police forces, Youth Offending Teams (...

Mental Capacity Act from a parliamentary context

Dr Lucy Series presentation for the Mental Capacity Act Webinar

Developing a Workplace Policy on Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse

1.1 This Guidance has been produced by the Department of Health and the Department of Justice in line with the Stopping Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse Strategy, published in March 2016. 1.2...

Improving information on childcare for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Authors: Alexandra Brady and Megan Jarvie In the summer of 2018 we ran a project aiming to improve information provision on childcare for disabled children by local authorities. This included...

Rights, Respect and Recovery

In the ten years since the publication of Scotland’s previous alcohol and drugs strategies we have seen a lot of positive change. I am proud of the successes achieved over this period, driven by...

Ending Homelessness Together: High Level Action Plan

This plan sets the direction for real and lasting change towards ending homelessness. It will be led and overseen by the Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group, which is co-chaired by political...

Thematic Report on the Prosecution of Young People

The approach to youth justice in Scotland builds on the key principles and ethos of the highly influential Kilbrandon Report published in 1964. Concerned with legal provisions and systems to treat “...

Kilbrandon again?

Though we believe the Children’s Hearings System is superior to a criminal justice approach to children, we believe that there are major inconsistences and deficiencies in law and policy which...

Making sure people seeking and refused asylum can access healthcare:what needs to change?

We set out a commitment in our business plan to make sure that people seeking asylum were able to fully access the public services to which they were entitled. This commitment was fuelled by our...

The role of volunteers in the NHS Views from the front line: Views from the front line

Authors: Shilpa Ross, Deborah Fenney, Deborah Ward and David Buck Interest in developing the role of volunteering in hospitals is increasing, however the perceptions of frontline staff on the issue...

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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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...

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...

A Connected Scotland

A Connected Scotland is the Scottish Government’s national strategy for tackling social isolation and loneliness and building social connections. It establishes a clear and compelling vision of the...

What matters most: Healthwatch England Annual Report 2017-18

Our annual report for 2017-18 provides a summary of the experiences people have shared with Healthwatch and highlights the action we have taken in response. It also gives an overview of the support...

Social Work and Youth: Towards Inclusive Sustainable Development

Constituting over 1.8 billion persons around the world, young people are key agents of change with the potential to push the world towards a better tomorrow. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...

Steering Clear of Indecent Images of Children

The Steering Clear campaign aims to educate and empower young men (18-24 years old) to navigate the internet more responsibly by: Building knowledge of how to report sexual images that could be of...

Help at Home: Use of assistive technology for older people

More people are living longer with complex conditions and needs. Technology can help people to stay living well and safely at home as they get older. But technology is changing rapidly and it can be...

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

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