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Gypsy Travellers in Contemporary Scotland

This study focuses on Gypsy/Travellers in contemporary Scotland. Ten years on from the 2001 Scottish Equal Opportunities Committee’s “Inquiry into Gypsy/Travellers and Public Sector Policies”,...

Gypsy Travellers in Scotland A resource for the media

Media coverage has a real impact on individual people’s lives. There have been many specific incidents where erroneous reporting of Gypsy Traveller issues in Scotland has resulted in people,...

Improving the Outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Pupils

This review has highlighted the vast array of literature and, more recently, official documentation and guidance relating to improving the outcomes for Gypsy and Traveller children that exists...

All Wales Child Protection Procedures

It is recognised that the Local Safeguarding Children Boards have a broad scope of responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, however these procedures are about their...

Breaking the wall of silence

As set out in international law, all children have the right to be safe regardless of their immigration status. The trafficking of children and young people into the UK has become increasingly...

Children and families experiencing domestic violence: Police and children’s social services’ responses

In England and Wales, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 amended the definition of significant harm provided by the Children Act 1989, adding a new category of “impairment suffered from seeing or...

The costs and Consequences of Child Maltreatment

This report is the first stage of a review of the costs and consequences of child maltreatment. It reviews a wide range of recent literature covering prevalence of different types of maltreatment of...

The back on track alternative provision pilots Final report

The overarching aim of this research was to develop insights from the 12 specifically funded projects as part of the Back on Track pilot programme to investigate what can work in alternative...

Fatally flawed: Has the state learned lessons from the deaths of children and young people in prison?

The inquests and investigations into the deaths of children and young people in prison between 2003 and 2010 reveal that they were often very vulnerable and that none received the level of support...

Hidden Carers Unheard Voices

There is little research evidence directly relating to the experience of Gypsy/Travellers in accessing social care services but in 2006 Cemlyn suggested that Gypsy/Travellers “with health problems...

Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report

This report is designed to give an accessible overview of media literacy among children and young people1 aged 5-15 and their parents/carers2, as well as an indicative view of media use by children...

Oct 2012 - Report from the Social Work with Adults Group

This report has been written to represent the concerns of members in seminars held in 2011 and the recent survey of social workers reported in the BASW report on the State of Social Work June 2012.i...

Oct 2012 - The Role of Social Workers in Adult Services

Social workers working with adults where enabled to practice well provide a tremendously important and valued service. This paper begins to set out the BASW vision of what social work with adults in...

Suffering in Silence 70,000 reasons why help with postnatal depression needs to be better

Every year millions of children have their life chances diminished by growing up in families facing serious or multiple challenges, without the practical support they need to prevent problems...

Jan 2012 – Charter for Social Workers working in partnerships with health and social care services in England

Is the creation or removal of formal partnership agreements between health and social care a good thing or a bad thing? The last year has seen some major changes in partnership between health and...

September 2012 - BASW Consultation Response: DfE - Revised Safeguarding Statutory Guidance

Sept 2011 – BASW England Briefing on the implications of Munro in relation to Learning and Development

The Munro Review is first and foremost a review about social work and child protection. However throughout the report there is an emphasis on Learning. This briefing paper sets out some of the points...

Guide for NQSWs – preparing for jobs market (updated 2013)

Newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs) since 2010 are reporting that it is difficult to find employment as a social worker It is impossible to know the numbers of students not finding work. (The GSCC...

Guide for students – preparing for jobs market (updated 2013)

The jobs market for Newly-qualified Social Workers is difficult – what can you do to increase your chances of getting a job?

Sept 2011 – BASW Public Speaking Guidance

Many people are worried about public speaking. Others think that all that’s needed is confidence, but this can lead to problems. There are definite skills that help with public speaking. The good...

August 2011 – Social Work Practice Pilots (updated June 2012)

Social care services have over the last twenty years shifted from being largely provided by local authorities, to being over 80% located in the independent sector. In addition there has been an...

May 2011 – UK Supervision Policy

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is producing a range of UK policy statements and documents to guide members and to support best practice, campaigning, lobbying and publications. The...

February 2011 – Research on supervision in social work, with particular reference to supervision practice in multi disciplinary teams

The job of a social worker is a challenging one which takes place in a complex adaptive environment where the role of professional judgement is paramount. Social workers need to be confident,...

February 2011 – Code of Practice to support social workers

BASW/CoSW England Code of Good Practice for Supervision in Social Work, with special reference to social workers working in multi disciplinary teams Principles of supervision 1. The prime purpose of...

February 2011 – Data collection within adult social care

BASW/CoSW is very concerned about the impact on social workers working in adult services of data collection. BASW/CoSW recognise that it is essential to have good quality case recording, but is...

November 2010 – Workload management and case load management in social work services

Workload management is the process of management that tries to ensure that service users and potential service users are given timely, appropriate and good quality services. To achieve this there...

September 2010 – Policy on Social Work in Multi Disciplinary Mental Health Teams

This paper was written in order to develop a BASW position on the role of social workers in multi disciplinary mental health teams in England and to make recommendations regarding the structures that...

September 2010 – Policy on Social Work in Multi Disciplinary Mental Health Teams – executive summary

A series of consultation events, combined with a literature search found the following: The concept of integration and the actual degree of integration varies across the country Multi disciplinary...

Independent visitors Children and young people’s views

To find out children’s and young people’s views and experiences of independent visitors, we gave out questionnaires to the children and young people who came to all the consultation events we held...

Safeguarding Children: Working Together Under the Children Act 2004

This Guidance is aimed at Chief Officers and all managers and practitioners in those bodies named in sections 28 and 31 of the Children Act 2004. It is intended to enable them to review their current...

No place for bullying: case studies

A wide range of research indicates that bullying is a problem for many young people, and that some of this takes place in schools. In the autumn term 2011 Ofsted carried out a survey, No place for...

Our Future

Welcome to Our Future. This is a report written with people with learning disabilities.

Out of Sight

The care system is failing people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. This report by Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation says enough is enough. The way we support...

Outcomes Matter: Effective commissioning in domiciliary care

The concept of outcome-based commissioning has been a feature of the adult social care landscape for some time, as a method of delivering personalised services based on need. A recent LGiU survey has...

Outcomes Matter: Effective commissioning in domiciliary care, Summary Report

A recent LGiU survey of social care departments showed that three quarters of respondents disagreed with the statement ‘our current systems will be sufficient to manage our adult social care...

Social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people overview

Fast, easy summary view of NICE guidance on 'social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people'

Social and emotional wellbeing: early years

The guidance is for all those responsible for ensuring the social and emotional wellbeing of children aged under 5 years. This includes those planning and commissioning children's services in local...

Minutes of the BASW Cymru Committee Meeting 7th November 2012

Introduction to... children’s social care

This Introduction to... briefing gives a brief overview of Children’s Social Care (CSC) and the relevant legislation and policy framework. It is aimed at people who have little or no experience in...

Decision-making within a child’s timeframe

This overview of research evidence has been commissioned in response to the Family Justice Review recommendation for consistent training and development for family justice professionals, including a...

Safeguarding Pressures Phase 3

At its annual policy seminar in February 2010, the ADCS Council of Reference agreed the importance of having analysis of recent, national data to evidence changes in safeguarding activity and...

Responding to Self-Harm in Scotland Final Report

The majority of acts of self-harm are not intended to end a person‟s life. However, depending upon the apparent or stated purpose of the act, selfharm may be referred to by a number of terms, some of...

Working with Children and Adults Who May be at Risk of Self-harm

The term self-harm is used in this guidance to refer to any act of selfpoisoning or self-injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act. This commonly involves self-poisoning with medication...

Truth Hurts Report of the National Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People

Self-harm among young people is a major public health issue in the UK. It affects at least one in 15 young people and some evidence suggests that rates of self-harm in the UK are higher than anywhere...

Challenging Stigma Tackling the prejudice experienced by the families of drug and alcohol users

Aims of this report • Improve awareness and understanding of how stigma affects family members of drug and alcohol users, and drug and alcohol users themselves • Codify existing literature around the...

Charter for Care Leavers

A Charter is a set of principles and promises. This Charter sets out promises care leavers want the central and local government to make. Promises and principles help in decision making and do not...

Leading the Way: The Distinctive Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector in Social Care

The Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University (IPC) has been commissioned by the National Care Forum (NCF) to produce a series of three papers which provide an overview and practical...

Social care and hospital use at the end of life

Care of the dying can be seen as an indicator of the quality of care provided for all sick and vulnerable people. Of particular concern is the coordination of care between health and social services...

Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan Progress report – July 2012

Child sexual exploitation is a form of child abuse which is complex and can manifest itself in different ways. Essentially it involves children and young people receiving something – for example,...

Terms of Reference, Criminal Justice Reference Group

Terms of Reference, Mental Health Reference Group

May 2012 - Update, Mental Health Reference Group

The Enemy Within 4 million reasons to tackle family conflict and family violence

All too often the violence depicted within families focuses on intimate partner violence, or what is usually called domestic violence. However, 4Children’s research shows a wider picture of conflict...

Crash Barriers A new approach to preventing family crisis

Every year 28,000 children go into care in England. Millions more have their chances of success in later life diminished by growing up in families facing serious and multiple challenges with little...

Terms of Reference, Professional Development Reference Group

Terms of Reference, Social Work with Adults Reference Group

Protecting people Promoting health

Violence is not something that just happens, nor is it normal or acceptable in our society. Many of the key risk factors that make individuals, families or communities vulnerable to violence are...

BASW Compass Jobs Fair presentations - Working Together to Safeguard Children - a new era in Safeguarding

BASW England staff have been presenting at recent Compass Jobs Fairs in Manchester (October) and London (November). Presentation ''Working Together to Safeguard Children - a new era in Safeguarding'...

BASW Compass Jobs Fair presentations - Care and Support White Paper

BASW England staff have been presenting at recent Compass Jobs Fairs in Manchester (October) and London (November). Presentation ''Care and Support White Paper' by Joe Godden, Professional Officer,...

Alcohol and Other Drugs - Essential Information for Social Workers

Social workers are in the front line of health and social care services. Alcohol and other drug use can play a significant role in the lives of people who receive social work services. Service...

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