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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.

Adult Care Workers at the Upper End of the 'Third Age' (60-75) in England

In this issue of the Social Care Workforce Periodical (SCWP) we aim to investigate empirical data on a sample of older workers in the adult social care sector in England, identified through the NMDS...

July 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry on Adoption Legislation

BASW welcomes the opportunity to be able to respond to this very important and timely inquiry in the context of the government’s current focus on adoption policy and practice. Our concern is that the...

July 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to DH consultation – Social Work Bursary

BASW summary: It is essential that members from all sections of our diverse society are encouraged to train as social workers and any barriers to this are eliminated. A means tested approach to...

June 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to OFSTED/HMIP Consultation – Inspection of Secure Training Centres

This is a consultation document on proposals for a revised framework for the inspection of secure training centres. Ofsted and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons seek the widest possible range of...

NIASW student recruitment poster

A poster containing useful information for students in Northern Ireland considering joining the Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers. Please display prominently in your office or university.

June 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to MoJ consultation – Punishment and Reform: Effective Probation Services

The major concern the Association has about these proposed changes stem from the potential they have to lead to a similar dysfunctional fragmentation of services which has occurred in childcare since...

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...

June 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to DfE Consultation – Revised Sure Start Children’s Centres Statutory Guidance

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...

March 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to Cross Government Definition of Domestic Violence

BASW is a member of the Inter-disciplinary Alliance for Children and shares the concerns of the Alliance regarding the narrow definition of domestic violence that has been applied to the Legal Aid,...

February 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to HPC consultation – Student Fitness to Practise and Registration

BASW Cymru student recruitment poster

An A4 poster containing useful information for students in Wales considering joining the Welsh Association of Social Workers. Please display prominently in your office or university.

SASW student recruitment poster

A poster containing useful information for students in Scotland considering joining the Scottish Association of Social Work. Please display prominently in your office or university.

BASW England student recruitment poster

A poster containing useful information for students in England considering joining the British Association of Social Workers. Please display prominently in your office or university.

Janaury 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to Education Select Committee Consultation – Revised Terms of Reference: The Child Protection System in England

BASW is pleased that the Education Committee has taken the decision to call for additional evidence for the Inquiry into the Child Protection System in England. This is such a fundamentally important...

January 2012 - BASW England Consultation Response to Revised Statutory Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Director of Children's Services and the Lead Member for Children's Services

Revised Statutory Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Director of Children's Services and the Lead Member for Children's Services

December 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to DH consultation-Caring for our Future: shared ambitions for care and support

This document is the BASW (England) response to the Department of Health consultation document on Caring for our future. The questions – in bold type - are those asked in the consultation, the text...

November 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to HPC consultation on Proficiency Standards for Social Workers

BASW has consulted with members about the consultation on the standards for proficiency for social work, in anticipation of the transfer of regulation of social work from the GSCC to the HPC in July...

November 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to HPC consultation on entry requirements to the social work register

BASW welcomes the opportunity to comment on the HPC proposals and looks forward to continuing to work with the HPC in a productive and on-going way.

October 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to MoJ/YJB consultation – Strategy for Secure Estate for Children and Young People in England and Wales

This consultation is of major interest to our members in England predominantly working with children and young people. It is our contention that children subject to the youth justice system are...

October 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to DH consultation on suicide prevention in England (completed by BASW England Mental Health Ref group)

Social workers have had and continue to have an important role in suicide prevention. Social workers working in general medical, palliative care, maternity care come across many people who are at...

September 2011 - BASW Consultation Response to Education Select Committee Inquiry into the Child Protection System in England

Child protection workers whether they are social workers, police officers, health workers or others are often unsung heroes who go about their work quietly and conscientiously making a huge...

September 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to the Justice Committee Inquiry into the future of the Youth Justice Board and youth offending teams

Children and young people in the youth justice system must be afforded the same protections and safeguards as all children. We do not support youth justice services simply being hived off to the...

September 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Ofsted consultation – Arrangements for the inspection of Local Authority children’s services

BASW is clear that child protection is a multi-agency responsibility and therefore supports the proposal to evaluate the effectiveness of all local services including health, education, police,...

September 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Ofsted consultation – Establishing a New Office for the Children’s Commissioner in England: Legislative procedures

We think that the Children’s Rights Director has played a fundamental role in evaluating residential services provided to children in the care of the local authority. Roger Morgan has exercised this...

September 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Commision on Dignity in Care – Call for Evidence

BASW recently (August 2011) ran an online survey on the care of people in residential homes. Many of the respondents had seen people mistreated and not treated with dignity with 81% mentioning ‘abuse...

August 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Ofsted inspection of local authority fostering services and independent fostering agencies

This is a consultation document on proposals for a revised framework for the inspection of local authority fostering services and independent fostering agencies. Ofsted seeks the widest possible...

August 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to Ofsted Inspection of local authority and voluntary adoption agencies

This is a consultation document on proposals for a revised framework for the inspection of local authority and voluntary adoption agencies. Ofsted seeks the widest possible range of views from those...

August 2011 - BASW England Consultation Response to NHS consultation : Call for Evidence

NHS Innovation. The NHS is part of a complex web of relationships which requires partnership working at all points of the change system. It is important to re-emphasize that without this, even a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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