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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...

Updated Review on Risk and Adult Social Care in England

This paper: Updates an earlier extensive review of research into the incidence and management of risk in adult social care in England; Addresses gaps identified in the earlier review, with new...

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 bigger picture

German practitioners skilled in the arts of social pedagogy, and a British convert to the concept, tell social care journalist Clare Jerrom about their experience of implementing the holistic...

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...

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...

Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives

For some people, homelessness is not just a housing issue but something that is inextricably linked with complex and chaotic life experiences. Mental health problems, drug and alcohol dependencies,...

Tackling child poverty through whole-area strategies

This knowledge review tells us what works in tackling child poverty through whole-area strategies: it is based on a rapid review of the research literature involving systematic searching, data scopig...

Systematic review of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) with children and families

SFBT is a strengths-based approach, emphasizing the resources that people possess and how these can be applied to a positive change process. SFBT focuses on strengths and `life without the problem'...

Sustainable Social Services for Wales

High quality responsive, citizen centred social services are essential to a successful Wales. That is why we are setting out in this Paper how the Welsh Assembly Government will take social services...

Supporting older people in care homes at night

This report examines the perspectives of residents, relatives, staff and care home inspectors. It identifies areas of good and poor practice, and recommends ways to make improvements through a series...

Support for Living?

This study set out to examine how local Supporting People teams were interpreting national guidelines in relation to the provision of housing-related support disabilities. The impact that this was...

Stuck in the Middle

With unprecedented investment in children’s early years and much government energy focused on tackling the ‘problems’ of older teenagers, the needs of children aged from six to 13 are often...

Strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services

This knowledge review tells us what works in strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services. It is based on a rapid review of the research...

Strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services

This research review tells us what works in strengthening family wellbeing and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended services. It is based on a rapid review of the research...

Step inside our shoes

This consultation offers a unique insight into the issue of gun and knife crime. Over 800 young people decided to take part in our online consultation, which explored the impact of gun and knife...

Staying Safe Survey 2009

The main aim of this research is to measure and track parents’ and children’s awareness, attitudes and reported behaviour across the various safety issues covered within the Staying Safe Action Plan...

Social work's place in reform agenda

Allan Bowman considers the recent Westminster government green paper on adult care in the context of wider personalisation reforms, suggesting that social workers will have a chance to develop their...

Social work's mad history

Joan Rapaport offers a reflection on the Social Work History Network’s autumn seminar, centred on the theme of mental health. The event charted the development of the role of the mental health social...

Social work's emergency service

BASW’s Advice & Representation Service hasn’t enjoyed an especially high profile role within the Association in the past but new leadership and increasing pressures on frontline workers mean it...

Social work's blind spot

Evidence that social workers have received too little training in working with drug and alcohol abusing service users prompted a BASW special interest group to publish a guide in September aimed at...

Social work's big decision

As BASW prepares to publish its Social Work Bill, a prescription for improving the profession, David N Jones maps the rights and responsibilities incumbent on social workers. In doing so he asks...

Social Work Services and Recovery from Substance Misuse: A Review of the Evidence

Its purpose was to review the evidence base to determine the contribution made by social work and social care to supporting people with alcohol and/or other drug problems. The findings were to be set...

Social Work and the coming global storm

Just weeks after stepping down as president of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), David N Jones looks back over more than ten years at the forefront of international social work...

Social networks: their role in addressing poverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on poverty and ethnicity which aims to understand the underlying reasons for variations in low income and...

Social care funding and the NHS

The government’s proposals to reform the NHS have rekindled interest in improving the relationship between local government, social care and the NHS to allow resources to be planned that reflect...

Significant inequalities in Scotland

This research aims to develop greater clarity about significant inequality in Scotland, the priorities for action and the importance of improving the evidence base.

Sexual orientation research review 2008

In January 2008, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to review current research and evidence on sexual orientation in order to...

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