Social Work Links and Learning #122
19 May 2024
Introduction
A couple of blogs from last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week - as always, I welcome any feedback, comments etc. Please share with anyone you feel might find the content interesting or useful as that’s how I can grow and thanks to all for your time, attention and trust with your email addresses!
Have a good week
Quote of the Week
Blogs and Articles
Media reporting of the family courts: a social worker’s reflections - Community Care
Meet Becky, aged 14, suicidal, alone and unwanted. Victim of a cruel, uncaring state - The Guardian
Birmingham Children’s Trust under fire over disclosing child's information - CYP Now
Nottingham Appeal - Mental Health Cop
Living Long-Term with Mental Illness - The School of Life
Mental Health Awareness Week : Mental Health in Prison - The Howard League
Mental Health Awareness Week: Moving, or a movement? - SCIE blog
Policy, Reports and Resources
The Care Act 2014: Ten years on from Royal Assent - Local Government Association
Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) workforce - Skills for Care
Excellence through equality: anti-racism as a quality improvement tool - NHS Confederation
Safeguarding children in elective home education - GOV.UK
Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s business - British Geriatrics Society
First local authority assessment reports published - Care Quality Commission
Audio and Video
Supported Accommodation - How We Listened - Ofsted Talks (Podcast)
An Interview with a Murderer - The Masked AMHP (YouTube)
Research
Post-Proceedings Support in a Family Drug and Alcohol Court - The British Journal of Social Work
Good Life (with Dementia) Research Findings - University of York
Events and Training
Pot Luck
A read
The Anatomy of Policy Scandals - Comment is Freed
A listen
Knife - Salman Rushdie - BBC Sounds (with requisite content warnings)
A watch
How to recognize perfectly hidden depression - Margaret Rutherford - TEDxBocaRaton (YouTube)