Social Work Links and Learning #106

21 January 2024

Introduction

Welcome to new subscribers and welcome back to continuing subscribers - thank you to you all. Quick note that from this week, I am combining video and audio sections because increasingly I’m finding more blurs between them as podcasts are recorded on YouTube and it can be less clear sometimes, what to file things under!

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Quote of the week

Blogs and Articles

Not My Words, Not My Story by Julia Buxton - Asylum Magazine

Child in need cases opened up to non-social work staff despite risk concerns - Community Care

Precious Cargo: Adapting ‘Justice for Laughing Boy’ for the stage — Stephen Unwin

More than 15,000 households fleeing domestic abuse across England denied access to safe housing - Inside Housing

Far down the Covid List - Community Living

Forced adoption: Seaford mother calls for government apology - BBC News

From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility - Schizophrenia Bulletin

Present and Continuing - Mental Health Cop

“An awful state”: Self-neglect and mental capacity – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

Policy, Reports and Resources

Annual Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Statistics - Gov.uk

Improving residential care for children in England – what can we learn from the Italian experience?  - CoramBAAF

Healthy Places, Prosperous Lives - IPPR

Our Data - CAFCASS (to Dec 2023)

Inspecting local authority children’s services - GOV.UK

Resources to support learning and development in 2024 - Skills for Care

Too Many to Count - Brain Injury in the Context of Domestic Abuse - BrainKind

Video and Audio

Crisis in adult social care: The charities having to turn away those needing care – Channel 4 News

Adult Safeguarding: Past, Present and Future - University of Bath - Recorded Webinar/Conference

Talking about co-production and evidence with Social Care Future - Research in Practice

What Happens When You Are Squeezed? - Self Care Shorts

Research

Psychiatric in-patient care in England: as safe as it can be? An examination of in-patient suicide between 2009 and 2020 - Psychological Medicine

Health and healthcare of people with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom through the COVID‐19 pandemic - British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Comparison of coercive practices in worldwide mental healthcare: overcoming difficulties resulting from variations in monitoring strategies - BJPsych Open

Events

Anorexia and the Court of Protection Webinar - 39 Essex Chambers - 23 Jan

The value and practice of relational care with older people - Centre for Care Seminar Series - 23 Jan

Understanding how social care assesses older LGBTQ+ people for support: findings from the LOASCA study - University of Birmingham - 24 Jan

Co-production of Citizen Science for Envisioning Mental Health Recovery - University of Nottingham - 1 Feb

Small steps, big changes: meeting youth mental health needs - Mental Elf - 7 Feb

Pot Luck

A read

Can Reading make you happier? The New Yorker

A listen

A Year to Change Your Mind - BBC Sounds

A watch

The Answer is not a Hut in the Woods - exurb2a