Social Work Links and Learning #118

21st April 2024

Apr 21, 2024

Introduction

I’m still very much at the ‘settling in’ stage of changing roles and jobs and it will still take me quite a while so I’m going to be quite brief here.

As always, I welcome any feedback, comments and suggestions.

Have a good week.

purple flower field during daytime — Photo by Nick Page on Unsplash

Quote of the Week

Blogs and Articles

Love’s Labours: uncovering the heart of social care - Theos

'Neglected, Exhausted and Exploited': A Mum's Story of Caring for her Disabled Daughter 24 Hours a Day – Byline Times

Fern Foster - George Julian

Attachment Theory and Children's Social Work Practice - Daniel Grant

Customer care, personalised care - it’s just not good enough. More compassion is needed in complaints-handling - Professional Standards Authority

Study highlights inequalities between women and men in their chances of having their children taken into care - Cascade

Extraordinary restrictions – “family are the experts” – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

What does ‘not-detainable’ really mean? - The Critical AMHP

Policy, Reports and Resources

Regulation 9A: Visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices - Care Quality Commission

Information sharing advice for safeguarding practitioners - GOV.UK

Women's Aid responds to quarterly CPS data on domestic abuse prosecutions - Women’s Aid

Think tanks, social care and the 2024 general election - Research in Practice

A-Z of Key Research Messages - HMI Probation (direct link to PDF)

Neighbourhoods and Communities - JRF

Inside CQC - Development of a cross-sector dementia strategy - Care Management Matters

Top tips and key actions for successful collaborative partnership working across mental health services - Local Government Association

Audio and Video

Against Speaking Up: A Defence of Silence – Professor Havi Carel & Dr Dan Degerman - Madness and Mental Health: London Lecture Series 2023-4 - YouTube

Dreaming Backwards in Social Work with Terri - Anne Hamer - YouTube

Social matters podcast - What is Organisational Trauma? - YouTube

Online Book Launch for Trauma-Informed Health Care by Dr Karen Treisman - YouTube

Research

Measuring quality in communication is imperative for social work education, practice and research, but what does it take? A social worker perspective in: European Social Work Research

Reflections from members of a collaborative social work practitioner–academic research team investigating the career progression experiences of black social workers - Critical and Radical Social Work Practice

Events and Training

IFSW CPD: Connecting Social Work Practitioner with The UN Human Rights Mechanisms and the OHCHR – International Federation of Social Workers - Wednesdays from 24 April - 15 May

CPD requirements workshops (various dates from 25 April) - Social Work England

What is the point of children's social care? - Relational Activism - 20 May

Disabled People’s Political Activism in Britain – David Turner - 30 July

Pot Luck

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