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Qualitative study of offender employment review: final report

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) to undertake a qualitative study of offender employment services, with a specific...

The circumstances of persistently poor families with children: Evidence from the Families and Children Study (FACS)

The aim of this project is to gain a fuller understanding of the circumstances of families with children that experience persistent poverty.

Workforce Risks and Opportunities: Adult Social Care

As part of its core programme for 2010/11, the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) to set out the major risks and opportunities facing the...

The changing roles and tasks of social work

The purpose of this paper is to initiate and inform an inclusive discussion about the role and tasks of social work, to which all stakeholders can contribute, and on the basis of which a definition...

The Changing Face of Motherhood

The number of households in Britain has increased substantially over the past 50 years (from 16 to 25million) but the proportion of households comprising families has fallen from 30% to 18%. Larger...

Social Justice: transforming lives

The Government’s ambitions for Social Justice apply to the whole United Kingdom, as set out in this document. However, we recognise that many of the policy levers are in the hands of the devolved...

The care of looked after children in custody

Children in the care of the local authority, or ‘looked after children’, are over represented within the custodial population. This thematic review, commissioned by the Youth Justice.

The birth of BASW

June 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of the British Association of Social Workers, offering an appropriate opportunity to reflect back to how it came into being. Mark Ivory looks at...

The Right to take Risks: Service User's Views of Risk in Adult Social Care

This paper: Gives voice to service users’ fears and concerns about risk; Identifies additional risks to those commonly identified by professionals and policy-makers; and Explores how perceptions of...

A Review of the Research Evidence Surrounding Risk Perceptions, Risk Management Strategies and their Consequences in Adult Social Care for Different Groups of Service Users

Key aims: • To review the research evidence on the perceptions and management of risk within and between different groups of adult social care service users and professional staff, including the...

An evidence assessment of the routes of human trafficking into the UK

This report presents the findings from an evidence assessment conducted in 2008 designed to address three questions: By what routes and methods of entry do victims of human trafficking reach the UK?...

The battle we don't need

Rob Warin considers the tensions between the emerging personalisation and safeguarding agendas, with service users increasingly responsible for their own care arrangements, and insists that the two...

Information and Guidance on Domestic Abuse: Safeguarding Children and Young People in Wales

Schools and education settings have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under section 175 of the Education Act 2002. The guidance Safeguarding Children in...

Care in Crisis 2012

This year care and support services have faced unprecedented challenges as a result of budget pressures and continued increases in demand. Sadly care services have not been immune to the effect of...

Child neglect in 2011 Summary of recommendations for the UK government

This report sets out the findings of our 2011 review of child neglect. Our comprehensive review is the first of a series to gauge the current situation for neglected children across the UK and...

Child Neglect

Action for Children investigated the extent of child neglect in the UK, its impact on the most vulnerable children and families and the role of the professionals who are in a position to spot the...

Action research into the evolving role of the local authority in education

The purpose of this research has been to explore how local authorities are evolving and adapting their role to meet the needs of a more autonomous education system. The particular focus of the...

Action research into the evolving role of the local authority

Local Authority key roles will be to: Support parents and families through promoting a good supply of strong schools – encouraging the development of Academies and Free Schools which reflect the...

Building a safe and confident future: One year on

The Social Work Reform Board is developing the Professional Capabilities Framework which, when it is finished, will clearly set out how a social worker’s knowledge, skills and capacity build over...

Building a safe and confident future: One year on

Evidence submitted to the Social Work Task Force demonstrated that the nature and demands of social work mean that it is essential for a number of key working conditions to be in place. These were...

Building a safe and confident future: One year on

In order to raise standards in the profession, it is vital that we develop the capacity and improve the skills of existing social workers, alongside making longer term changes to the social work...

Building a safe and confident future: One Year On

Social workers, their employers and educators must work with a wide range of partners, including service users, carers and other professionals. This paper proposes a partnership framework between...

How well do we protect children and meet their needs?

Self-evaluation within and between services to protect children and young people has evolved significantly since the first joint inspections of child protection services were undertaken. Increasingly...

Long-term conditions and mental health

People with long-term physical health conditions – the most frequent users of health care services – commonly experience mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, or dementia in the case...

Neglecting the issue

Child neglect is the most pervasive form of child abuse in the UK today. It robs children of the childhood they deserve – that is their right – and leaves broken families, dashed aspirations and...

Seen and now heard

Since October 2009, Action for Children’s ‘Take Your Action for Children’ Neglect Appeal has strived to accurately reveal the extent of child neglect in the UK. The statistics are stark – up to 1.5...

Safeguarding Children’s Rights: exploring issues of witchcraft and spirit possession in London’s African communities

Children accused of witchcraft can be subject to abuse through any of the four identified forms of child abuse: physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. What has become apparent from the...

Care Standards Act 2000

In summary this Act establishes a new, independent regulatory body for social care and private and voluntary healthcare services (“care services”) in England to be known as the National Care...

Child Poverty Act 2010

An Act to set targets relating to the eradication of child poverty, and to make other provision about child poverty.

Equality Act 2010

An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-...

Children and Adoption Act 2006

An Act to make provision as regards contact with children; to make provision as regards family assistance orders; to make provision about risk assessments; to make provision as regards adoptions with...

Forced Marriage etc. (Protection and Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Act 2011

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for protecting persons from being forced into marriage without their free and full consent and for protecting persons who have been forced into...

The Framework for Continuous Learning in Social Services

The Continuous Learning Framework sets out what people in the social service workforce need to be able to do their job well now and in the future and describes what employers need to do to support...

Tackling chronic poverty

This synthesis paper attempts to focus on what is new or different; what is actionable; and what is strategic as far as addressing chronic poverty is concerned. This relates to the big development...

Personalisation: lessons from social care

The twin challenges of quality and funding loom large over the adult social care sector. Age UK has argued that the future sustainability of long term care will require a rise in public spending from...

Supervision and Workload Management for Social Work

Helping People Change Their Lives - the Social Work Manifesto for frontline staff in Scotland issued in 2009 by UNISON and BASW - has been universally welcomed. It has already resulted in some...

Practice Governance Framework

The Role of the Chief Social Work Officer The Role of the Registered Social Worker in Statutory Interventions: Guidance for Local Authorities Practice Governance Framework: Responsibility and...

A Social Work manifesto for UNISON and BASW members in Scotland

UNISON & BASW welcome the positive steps taken in Scotland to address the problems in Social Work in the past few years. These include : The 21st Century Review and the Changing Lives Report. The...

Keeping Safe in the Workplace

Helping People Change Their Lives - the UNISON and BASW Manifesto for social work members in Scotland recognises that people are essential to the quality of service provided. There is no doubt that...

State of Social Work Survey – Responses from Local Authorities

By 21 June seventeen local authorities in England had responded to letters from BASW to every council highlighting its State of Social Work campaign. You can read all their replies below. This...

Councils defend social work support in response to BASW poll

Among the 17 local authorities to respond to BASW’s State of Social Work survey at the time of going to press, many accepted that social workers were under pressure, particularly in children’s...

Government says it recognises BASW’s State of Social Work concerns

The minister responsible for social work in England has been joined by 17 local authorities [see facing page for more] in responding formally to BASW’s damning assessment of current practice...

Minister responds to the State of Social Work survey

BASW wrote to the Westminster secretaries of state for health and education, outlining its State of Social Work campaign and asking for their response. Children’s minister Tim Loughton, also...

Voices from the frontline

This document contains hundreds of comments from frontline social workers and managers about their working lives, the challenges they face and the concerns they have about the work and the people who...

BASW Code of Ethics poster Scotland

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster Wales

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster N. Ireland

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

BASW Code of Ethics poster Wales (Welsh language)

A poster containing the key principles of the BASW Code of Ethics for Social Work. Please display prominently in your workplace.

Supplementary written evidence submitted by the British Association of Social Workers

I gave evidence on 20 April 2016 at the Education Select Committee on Children’s Social Work Reform on behalf of British Association of Social Workers (BASW). I was very pleased to address the...

Children in times of economic crisis: Past lessons, future policies

How do economic shocks, in particular the current economic downturn, affect the wellbeing of children? What can be done to mitigate harm? This paper explores these questions, presents a framework for...

Care in crisis: causes and solutions

Care and support in later life has reached financial breaking point.

Report on the Future Delivery of Public Services by the Commission chaired by Dr Campbell Christie

In this report we have set out a way forward for Scotland’s public services, reflecting the significant challenges – and opportunities – that lie before us.

Research into private fostering

The research had two broad aims. Firstly, to collect evidence of the practices and procedures of local authorities in relation to private fostering arrangements, in order to inform thinking on how to...

Respect and renewal

The Partnership Initiatives for Communities (PICs) programme was conceived by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF, or ‘the Foundation’) as a multilayered investigation into the ways in which social...

Rethinking disability policy

There are concerns that reductions in benefits and public services will significantly and disproportionately affect disabled people. What progress has been made in disability policy in the last 20...

Reviewing the reviews

In every part of the UK social work is under review and subject to reform. With so many reviews, reports, commissions and inquiries underway or in the throes of reporting their conclusions, social...

Effective Relationships with Vulnerable Parents to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People

York Consulting was commissioned by Action for Children to undertake research to articulate how Action for Children professionals develop effective relationships with vulnerable parents and how this...

The age of reason?

The furore over the return to prison of Jon Venables has abated, but news has now emerged of the conviction of two ten-year-old boys for the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl, prompting Clare...

Tell them not to forget about us

The over-representation of looked after children and care leavers in the criminal justice system poses a fundamental challenge for children’s services. The reasons for this are complex, but there is...

Targeting children's centre services on the most needy families

This research aims to provide local authority early years and children’s services leaders, and children’s centre managers, with evidence of how children’s centre services are targeting the most...

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