Social Work Links and Learning #115

24 March 2024

Introduction

I hope it’s been a productive week for all. I will be taking a break next week for Easter but will be back on the 7th April.

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and feedback. Have a great Easter/Ramadan Mubarak/Chag Purim Sameach (pick and choose and I will be back before Eid!). One request - if you know anyone who could benefit from this, or enjoy it, please share.

Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash

Quote of the Week

Blogs and Articles

I am not dead - George Rook

'As a social worker I was made to feel shame for my bipolar diagnosis' - Community Care

Three arrested in £76m luxury care home fraud investigation - The Guardian

Tackling inequalities in health and care — the NHS Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework - Care Quality Commission

Social work and the renewal of generosity towards service users and social workers - Professor Harry Ferguson - University of Birmingham

Capacity Assessments: Professionalism, Accountability and Best Practice - Mental Capacity

Recruiting robots: the language of social work job adverts - Rewriting social care

Policy, Reports and Resources

Social Work England published 3 separate pieces of research this week:

• Practice education in England: A national scoping review

• Public perceptions of the social work profession

• Social work workforce

Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter - Contextual Safeguarding/Durham University

A guide to making the case for improvement - The Health Foundation

Promote the Vote: A BASW Practice Guide

Government response to the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill published - Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Identifying a deprivation of liberty: a practical guide – updated Law Society guidance (and walkthrough) – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Workforce Disability Equality Standard 2023 report findings - NHS Employers

4D tech to prevent falls to be rolled out in social care settings - GOV.UK

Age UK report finds the system for protecting the fundamental right to liberty of older people with diminished capacity is in urgent need of reform - Age UK

BASW Annual Survey of Social Workers and Social Work 2023 - BASW

Audio and Video

Mental Capacity Conundrums: Putting the Law in Context - Alex Ruck-Keene KC (YouTube)

Where did Gloriously Ordinary come from and the Values of Inclusion - The Gloriously Ordinary Sundays Podcast (Spotify Link)

What can be done to improve life chances and health outcomes for people with Down’s Syndrome? - Channel 4

Research

‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983 - International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Intimate partner violence, suicidality, and self-harm: a probability sample survey of the general population in England - The Lancet

Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review - Sociology of Health & Illness

Events and Training

Systems go! Cross-sector partnering for change in health and care - King's Fund - free e-learning

Understanding interpersonal dysfunctions in Personality Disorders through Social Cognition - ESSPD - 8 April

Implementing NICE guidelines in social care: Insights for local authorities - NICE - April 17

Psychological approaches to working with people experiencing homelessness - King's College London

Research Perspectives in Gerontological Social Work - TISSA - 24 May (links to PDF with booking link)

Pot Luck

A read

My Simple Habit for Smarter Book Reading - Scott H Young

A listen

Intelligence Squared - Page Turner: The History of the Notebook (podcast)

A watch

The Philosophy of Time Management - Brad Aeon - TEDxConcordia - YouTube