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Improving support for young carers – family focused approaches

Young Carers are young people who help care for a family member. This is a role that many young people are happy and proud to do. However, inappropriate or excessive levels of caring can put their...

Evaluation of the Right2BCared4 Pilots: Final report

Right2BCared4 is an approach underpinned by a set of key principles intended to improve outcomes for young people making the transition from care to adulthood; it is not a single approach or...

Prevention and Reduction: A review of strategies for intervening early to prevent or reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour

This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of ‘what works’ in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour...

Evaluation of Intensive Intervention Projects

The government is committed to helping to transform the lives of the most vulnerable families through Intensive Family Interventions. As part of the previous government's Children's Plan and Youth...

Building bridges? An evaluation of the costs and effectiveness of the Separated Parents Information Programme (PIP)

The Separated Parent Information Programme (PIP) is the first nationally available parent education programme for parents involved in litigation over contact and residence in England. The programme...

Monitoring and evaluation of family intervention services and projects between February 2007 and March 2011

Family interventions were set up to work with some of the most troubled and challenging families to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB), youth crime, inter-generational disadvantage and worklessness...

Working with parents and Social Workers

Presentation on families and alcohol and drugs from the BASW event in Manchester on 21st November 2012

Young People and Substance Use

Presentation on young people and substance misuse from the BASW event in Manchester on 21st November 2012 Legislation Facts and figures What’s so different about young people? What influences young...

Older Focus – Addressing the Hidden Problem

Presentation on older people and alcohol from the BASW event in Manchester on 21st November 2012

Teens and Toddlers integrated process evaluation

Teens and Toddlers (T&T) is a youth development and teenage pregnancy prevention programme and the central project of the Children: Our Ultimate Investment (COUI) organisation. COUI UK was...

Randomised controlled trial of the ‘Teens and Toddlers’ programme

The Teens and Toddlers (T&T) programme aims to decrease teenage pregnancy by raising the aspirations and educational attainment of 13-17 year old teenagers at most risk of leaving education early...

The impact of Sure Start Local Programmes on seven year olds and their families

The ultimate goal of Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) was to enhance the life chances for young children growing up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Children in this type of neighbourhood are at...

Family and Friends Care: Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities

This statutory document aims to improve outcomes for children and young people who, because they are unable to live with their parents, are being brought up by members of their extended families,...

The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2010/11

This Annual Report presents evidence from inspection and regulatory visits undertaken between September 2010 and August 2011 by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (...

Canary in the Cage?

This brief report summarises the views of a number of professionals, involved in managing and overseeing local child protection arrangements, on the value of including a set of ‘lead indicators’...

Long-term impact of childhood bereavement

This preliminary analysis of data from the 1970 British Cohort Study was undertaken by the Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre as part of the ‘fast response’ programme of work to inform policy...

The National Occupational Standards for Social Work

These national occupational standards for social work were developed jointly with Northern Ireland Social Care Council, Scottish Social Services Council and TOPPS England. The consultation exercise...

UKHTC: A Baseline Assessment on the Nature and Scale of Human Trafficking in 2011

Childcare and early years providers survey 2010

The Department for Education commissioned TNS-BMRB to conduct surveys collecting information about childcare and early years provision across England in 2010. In this report the survey findings are...

Safeguarding the Future

The Youth Justice Board was created in 1998 to drive and oversee the significant reforms made to the youth justice system. Its founding legislation gave it the functions, and necessary powers, to...

New care models and prevention: an integral partnership

Back in 2004, the Wanless report Securing good health for the whole population, commissioned by the government, identified the “potentially large gains to be made by refocusing the health service...

Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration

How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, whether they have an immigrant background or not...

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Review

This review of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has gathered evidence from a wide range of people working in the early years sector, including academics, practitioners, representatives of...

BASW Cymru Committee Meeting Agenda 12/09/2012

BASW Cymru Committee Meeting Teleconference Agenda for 12th September 2012

SASW 2012, February Response to Scottish Government Consultation on Integration of Health and Social Care

SASW members are sceptical about the value of structural change achieving change in how services are delivered at the frontline. This view is based on their experiences of structural changes that...

SASW 2012, August Response to Education and Culture Committee Scottish Parliament Inquiry into Decision making on whether children should be taken into care

The Scottish Association of Social Work represents social workers, many offering frontline services throughout Scotland. They work in both rural and urban communities, local government and voluntary...

Grandparents providing child care

The Families and Early Years Analysis and Research Team at the Department for Education requested a brief review of research evidence and statistical data on grandparents providing childcare. This...

Leading for outcomes: a guide

This guide aims to provide support on how to lead teams in the adoption and implementation of an outcomes-focused approach. It combines knowledge of effective leadership with evidence relating to...

Leading for outcomes: dementia

Leading for outcomes: dementia seeks to explore how staff can be supported to effectively practice an outcomes-focused approach within the context of dementia. It provides information about dementia...

Leading for outcomes: parental substance misuse

Leading for outcomes series, which is designed to support team leaders, managers and trainers to lead teams in the adoption and implementation of an outcomes-focused approach. Leading for outcomes: a...

Leading for outcomes: children and young people

Outcomes refer to the impact of support on a person’s life and not the outputs of services. Outcomes are the answer to the question: So what difference does it make? Outcomes are changes or benefits...

Reducing bullying amongst the worst affected

Bullying Affects the Majority of School Children in the UK 1. Bullying affects most school children at some point, either as a victim, a bully or as a bystander. 2. The worst-affected groups, such as...

Review of Early Education and Childcare Qualifications

Young children deserve to be educated and cared for by those with the right abilities and dedication to give them the best. The quality of children’s early years experiences has a powerful effect on...

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Risk Guidance for people with dementia

Nothing ventured, nothing gained provides guidance on best practice in assessing, managing and enabling risk for people living with dementia. It is based on evidence and person-centred practice and...

Living well with dementia: A National Dementia Strategy

This strategy provides a strategic framework within which local services can deliver quality improvements to dementia services and address health inequalities relating to dementia; provide advice and...

The role of young workers (18-25) in the English care system

There is no doubt that the social care sector is one of the fastest growing employment sectors in England, as in most developed countries. There have been calls, and a number of initiatives to...

Adult Day Care Workforce in England

Adult day care has traditionaly formed an important element of support for those using social care services and their carers.

June 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to NICE consultation – Draft Guidance, Social and Emotional Wellbeing (Early Years)

BASW welcomes guidance being produced in relation to public health intervention and social and emotional wellbeing during a child’s early years. It is essential that there is good integration between...

May 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to Law Commission consultation on Regulation of Health and Social Care Professionals

BASW welcome the opportunity to provide feedback on the Law Commission, The Scottish Law Commission and the Northern Ireland Law Commission consultation on health and social care regulatory...

May 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to NICE Guidelines: Occupational therapy for adults undergoing total hip replacement

Overall a very good document, which has the potential to improve services for service users undergoing elective hip replacements

April 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to NICE Pilot Social Care Quality Standard: Care of People with Dementia

There are particular issues around people with mental health problems who are older where diagnosis and patients are batted around, particularly within and between psychiatry and older people’s...

July 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to NICE Consultation: Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health

All in all it is a positive document but needs to be condensed to the key recommendations against which Mental Health services can then audit themselves and develop an action plan. There is no...

July 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to HPC consultation – Updating the ‘Guidance on Health and Character’

The guidance is clear. However, we are not sure whether the guidance would ensure consistency in self-declarations about health, ie an illness, condition or disability affecting someone’s fitness to...

Into the unknown Children’s journeys through the asylum process

Each year around 3,000 unaccompanied children claim asylum in the UK. Most come fromcountries which are in a state of chaos, endemic violence or with well-documented humanrights abuses, such as...

Professional Capability Framework - Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) Level Capabilities

By the end of the ASYE social workers should have consistently demonstrated practice in a wider range of tasks and roles, and have become more effective in their interventions, thus building their...

Reforming Social Work: Improving social worker recruitment, training and retention

Social workers play an essential and often unrecognised role in the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society. For individuals and families who come into contact with them, the...

June 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Support and Aspiration: A new Approach to SEN and Disability

BASW/CoSW welcomes the emphasis on early identification of SEN and impairments proposed in this paper. This, alongside the development of partnerships working with parents and the provision of a...

May 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Equality act 2010: Banning Age Discrimination in services, public functions and associations

Within health and social care age is widely used as a criteria for determining eligibility and level of services. This is not “official” policy, but is widely used as a rationing device. BASW...

April 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to: DWP Consultation - Strengthening families, promoting parental responsibility: the future of child maintenance

Social workers certainly have experience of working with children where their parents have separated and child maintenance is an issue. We are therefore, keen to share the view of BASW/CoSW members...

March 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Building A Safe and Confident Future: One Year on

BASW/CoSW welcomes the work of the SWRB which recognises and supports the central role of the profession in improving practice, although we recognise that there is a real challenge to engage and re...

March 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to: Liberating the NHS: developing the Healthcare Workforce

BASW welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Consultation document ion developing the Healthcare Workforce. It is noted in The Consultation document that there are several mentions of the social...

March 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Healthy Lives, Healthy People

Crucial that Local Authorities engage with GPs and pending GP consortia. This is an agenda that did take place in the 1980's early nineties, but has got lost, particularly as Post of Public Health...

March 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to the Ministry of Justice Green Paper Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders

BASW/CoSW is pleased that this consultation examines the whole criminal justice system but is concerned that scant regard appears to have been given to the fact that the principal inhabitants of the...

February 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response: Tackling Child Poverty and Improving Life Chances

BASW – The College of Social Work recognises the need to implement a childpoverty strategy and hopes to see evidence of resources being provided tomeet the proposals of this strategy in this time of...

February 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to the Ministry of Justice Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales

Children and young people in mind: the final report of the National CAMHS Review

Mental health and psychological wellbeing is affected positively and negatively by a child’s own make-up; the influence of their parents, carers, families and wider communities; and by their everyday...

Silent Voiices

The misuse of alcohol by parents negatively affects the lives and harms the wellbeing of more children than does the misuse of illegal drugs. Yet too often, parental alcohol misuse is not taken as...

Negotiating and working with partners: effective and ineffective partnership behaviours

In establishing new partnerships and developing existing ones, our case examples indicate there are a number of helpful behaviours to look for and/or promote when negotiating the Memorandum of...

Practice Educator Professional Standards for social work (TCSW archive)

Please note that this is an archived resource from the College of Social Work, please visit the current Practice Educator Professional Standards page if you are looking for up-to-date information...

Effective partnership working Partnership principles – summary

A key task for partnerships is to agree their joint aims and outcomes. This enables the partnership to be driven by active and meaningful collaboration, rather than externally imposed prescriptions...

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