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SASW membership recruitment poster

A poster containing useful information for social workers in Scotland considering joining the Scottish Association of Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Cymru membership recruitment poster (Welsh language)

BASW Cymru membership recruitment poster

A poster containing useful information for social workers in Wales considering joining BASW Cymru. Please display prominently in your workplace.

Transforming the Delivery of Heath and Social Care

As a result of the changes contained in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the NHS is implementing one of the most radical reorganisations in its history. These changes are dominated by the...

Violating children’s rights: Harmful practices based on tradition, culture, religion or superstition

Each year, thousands of children die worldwide and the childhoods and development of millions more are scarred by harmful practices perpetrated by parents, relatives, religious and communityleaders...

Fulfilled Lives, Supportive Communities Commissioning Framework Guidance and Good Practice

Social care commissioning involves making decisions about what services are required to respond to the social care needs of children and young people in need and adults in Wales. It also involves...

Continuing Professional Development for Children's Services Managers: What Works?

This paper looks at emerging evidence and good practice in the area of continuing professional development for managers of children’s services, and takes an overview about how managers can be best...

Early Intervention and Prevention with Children and Families

National definitions of early intervention and prevention continue to emerge and to demonstrate subtle differences of focus and emphasis, as illustrated by the two examples below: “Intervening early...

End of Life Care Strategy Fourth Annual Report

Over the past few years end of life care has itself been in the process of transformational change. That change has been driven by innumerable partnerships, working to a common agenda set out in the...

Where the heart is ... a review of the older people's home care market in England

With an expanding older population, changing health and social care needs and expectations, and a wide recognition that acute care services are not the best place to support older people, the...

A Strategy and Action Plan for embedding knowledge in practice in Scotland’s Social Services 2012-15

This strategy and action plan for 2012-15 builds on the solid foundation laid down by the first knowledge strategy for social services – “Sharing knowledge, improving practice, changing lives 2009-11...

Sharing Knowledge, Improving Practice, Changing Lives

Knowledge management is about getting the right information to the right people at the right time. This Knowledge Management Strategy and Action Plan has been developed to help individuals and social...

Exploring the Scale and Nature of Child Sexual Exploitation in Scotland

This study was undertaken between January 2012 and June 2012. The study had three aims: to review existing research, policy and practice literature from the UK regarding the scale and nature of child...

Commissioning for Families with Complex Needs

This guide for commissioning for families with complex needs has been developed on behalf of the Children’s Improvement Board (CIB) in response to feedback from commissioners of children’s services,...

Families on the Frontline?

This report contains the findings of one strand of the Family and Parenting Institute’s (FPI) two-year research programme!Families in the Age of Austerity. We have already worked to understand the...

The Red Book 2012

The purpose of the Red Book, published annually on the anniversary of the Coalition Government’s first Spending Review, is to ensure the public and policy makers are aware of the real life impact of...

Learning Disabilities, Autism and Internet Safety: A Parent’s Guide.

This guide outlines some suggestions to help parents limit the risk of their child having negative experiences online and understand what action can be taken if they do. This guide also suggests some...

Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities - Understanding their Mental Health

This information pack is intended to provide a basic introduction to mental wellbeing and mental health problems before considering mental health problems in children and young people with learning...

Nobody made the connection: The prevalence of neurodisability in young people who offend

In June 2011 our influential and well received report “I think I must have been born bad”1 pressed for improvements in services designed to meet the mental health needs of young people in the secure...

'I think I must have been born bad': Emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people in the youth justice system

The need to protect all children from harm, including those who break the law, to provide them with treatment for health related matters and support for their emotional wellbeing is enshrined in UK...

Running away

We asked children and young people in care or living away from home in residential education for their views at a big consultation event we held in the north of England. We invited children from...

A rapid literature review of evidence on child abuse linked to faith or belief

The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (CWRC), based at the Institute of Education, was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to conduct a small-scale review of previous research on ‘...

BASW response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights consultation on the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK

The history of modern social work intervention with children started with the Curtis Report in 1948 when a child evacuee died in the care of a family with whom he was placed. The displacement of...

Young People and Alcohol - Essential Information for Social Workers

This guide seeks to support Social Workers in their practice with young people who drink alcohol and whose use of alcohol is excessive or problematic. It will also be relevant for other social and...

National Parenting Strategy

The strategy builds on the huge amount of excellent work already underway at national and local level, bringing it together to add clear leadership, greater coordination of efforts and fresh momentum...

Communication is the key: a good practice survey of services for deaf children

This small survey highlights the key factors underpinning effective joint working across agencies with deaf children and the positive impact that this has had on their lives. The report draws on...

Supporting professionals to take action against neglect

Child neglect is cited as a direct cause of one in six deaths and serious injuries in Serious Case Reviews and is a key factor in many more. Neglect is cited as the primary reason for concern for...

Mental health in context: the national study of work-search and wellbeing

When people start a claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), what is the state of their mental health and wellbeing? And what happens to them in the months that follow? To examine these questions, a...

Plugging the Gap: The Social Care Challenge

The UK is facing the largest public sector spending cuts since the 1970s. Faced with the challenges this brings, there is a need for rapid and focused thinking. If citizens are expected to ‘do more’...

Families with Multiple Problems: Plugging the Gap

The UK is facing the largest public sector spending cuts since the 1970s. Faced with the challenges this brings, there is a need for rapid and focused thinking. If citizens are expected to ‘do more’...

The School Report:: The experiences of gay young people in Britain’s schools in 2012

The School Report 2012, a survey of more than 1,600 gay young people, demonstrates the encouraging results of this work. Levels of homophobic bullying have fallen by 10 per cent since 2007 and the...

Keep us close: Ensuring good, inclusive and accessible local services for disabled children and their families

There are around 700,000 disabled children in England. One in fifteen families with dependent children has at least one disabled child and large numbers of these families feel that they are close to...

Over the Limit

Our relationship with alcohol is the subject of a great deal of comment and soul searching. Yet much of this debate centres on the impact alcohol has on our streets and communities – as a result of...

The Impact of Virtual Schools on the Educational Progress of Looked After Children

This report examines the impact of virtual schools, established by local authorities to support and improve the educational achievement of looked after children. The report draws on evidence from...

The value of independent advocacy for looked after children and young people

Children and young people who are in care have a right to have their views and feelings heard and to be involved in decisions made about their lives. When this happens, and happens well, it improves...

Practice Guidance on Developing a Commissioning Strategy for People with a Learning Disability

This practice guidance was developed for the Learning Disability Advisory to complement the statutory guidance; The Commissioning Framework Guidance and Good Practice, May 2010 designed for social...

Guidance for Team around the Family Panels

The vision for Team around the Family in X Borough is a: Team around the Family for the benefit of the child ‐ working together with families to overcome challenges and enable children to reach their...

People who pay for care: quantitative and qualitative analysis of self-funders in the social care market

Both the Government’s Vision for Adult Social Care and the new social care sector partnership agreement Think Local, Act Personal recognise the importance of working in future to support all people...

EU Kids Online: National perspectives

This comparative report summarises the internetrelated experiences of children in the 33 countries now participating in EU Kids Online. Findings for eight new countries are added to the 25 included...

What Works in Promoting Good Outcomes for Children in Need in the Community?

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

What works in promoting good outcomes for children in need through enhanced parenting skills?

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

What Works in Promoting Good Outcomes for Looked After Children and Young People?

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

What works in promoting good outcomes for children in need where there is parental substance misuse?

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

Social Care Demographics and Pressure Points

This short paper summarises a lecture given by Professor Keith Moultrie to a Community Exchange Seminar run by Oxford Brookes University and Oxfordshire Council for Voluntary Associations on 8 March...

Talking Self-harm

This document contains the results of a ground-breaking, year long research study, working in partnership with teen mental health charity, YoungMinds. The research used a suite of services including...

The Role of Commissioning in Improving Services to Children in Need

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

Advocacy: a voice for our future

It has never been more important for disabled people to know our rights and have access to advocacy to help realise them. At a time of major change - and often reductions - in services, people who...

What works in promoting good outcomes for children in need who experience domestic violence?

This paper has been prepared to support the commissioning of children in need services in Wales as part of the Better Outcomes for Children in Need Programme sponsored by the Social Services...

Frontline: Improving the children’s social work profession

Children’s social work is under enormous strain. Chr onic funding pressures, a ballooning workload and a poorly trained and supported workfor ce have all combined to put vulnerable children’s lives...

Health implications of new technology

Health implications have been attributed to all forms of new media, yet it is hard to pin down the research evidence on whether these effects have been positive or negative. The short answer is, of...

Child Poverty Strategy 2012 Onwards

Child poverty has been a consistent issue of concern for my office since its inception in 2001. The Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 placed a duty on the Welsh Government to publish a Child...

Better understanding of levels of support for individual employers and their personal assistants (PAs)

Skills for Care’s analysis of the market shows that in 2011 there were 178,000 individual employers creating 420,000 jobs carried out by 262,000 PAs. This is a rise of 15% in one year. This means...

Current situation in relation to child poverty and child wellbeing

The aim of the conference is to contribute to the European fight against child poverty and social exclusion and the promotion of children’s well-being so as not to lose the already built up momentum...

October 2012 - BASW Response to DH consultation - Information Governance Review Evidence Session: Workforce Education, Training and Regulation

October 2012 - Information Governance Review, DH, Questionnaire

October 2012 - BASW Response to the Care and Support Bill

Gypsy/Travellers and Care

We heard that, in most care situations, the GP who either diagnoses a condition or makes a referral will be the first point of contact for both carers and cared-for people. Examples of good practice...

New Remand Framework for Children (2012), MoJ

Provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 pave the way for the devolution of under-18 secure remand budgets to local authorities. Most of these budgets are...

Adoption and Fostering Proposals (2012), DfE

The Government is consulting on a range of adoption and fostering proposals. For adoption these are the new, shorter two-stage approval process for prospective adopters, and fast-track procedure for...

Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families

Securing the wellbeing of children by protecting them from all forms of harm and ensuring their developmental needs are responded to appropriately are primary aims of National Assembly policy. Local...

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