Social Work Links and Learning #108

4 February 2024

Introduction

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Have a good week

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Quote of the Week

Blogs and Articles

Preventing Future Deaths: Lugh Baker and David Hemmings

Judge highlights ‘gargantuan’ challenges in finding suitable welfare placements - CYP Now

The anti-racism movement supporting black female staff using social work techniques - Community Care

Just signing the papers - Mental Health Cop

“If you don’t know your history, you’re like a leaf that doesn’t know it’s part of a tree”. - Jenny Morris

“Why Are We Having More Incidents?” Causal Loops in Reactions to Unwanted Events – Humanistic Systems

Policy, Reports and Resources

Edenfield Centre: Vulnerable patients denied human rights - review - BBC News (includes link to independent report)

Pursuing racial justice in mental health - Centre for Mental Health

New analysis reveals autism assessment and support crisis with tens of thousands of children waiting months and years for help after demand rockets by over 300% since Covid — Centre for Young Lives

Discharge from mental health care: making it safe and patient-centred - Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO)

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK

Discharge from mental health inpatient settings - GOV.UK

Audio and Video

Should social workers be on social media? - Community Care Podcast

How to compare mental health and mental capacity frameworks across countries: in conversation with Professor Gavin Davidson – Mental Capacity Law and Policy (video)

The Sorry Tale of a Failing Mental Health Trust, a Murder – and 2 Inquiries - The Masked AMHP

Research

Parents' perspectives on the results of mandatory child protection support: A qualitative study - Child & Family Social Work

Improving our understanding of the social determinants of mental health: a data linkage study of mental health records and the 2011 UK census - BMJ Open

Events and Training

Supporting Unpaid carers in the NHS and social care - King's College London - 9 Feb (online and in person)

‘Requisite parenting’ – introduction to an optimal Black parenting style - Centre for Research on Children and Families - University of East Anglia - 14 Feb

Narratives, interaction and desistance from crime - University of Edinburgh Social Work Department - 21 Feb

DBA Healthcare Leadership: 2 'Unprofessional behaviours in healthcare' - Middlesex University - 22 Feb

Ask the Expert: Obesity and mental health research webinar - NIHR - 5 March

Disability, Sociology, and Sibling Research - Online Symposium - University of Sheffield - 13 March

Social Work Week - 18 March to 22 March - around 60 diverse sessions across the week, all free.

Pot Luck

A read

In defence of the unoptimized life - Napkin Math

A listen

Unveiling justice: Showcasing our courts at public open days - Inside HMCTS

A watch

Ellie Simmons - A World without Dwarfism - BBC iPlayer