Social Work Links and Learning #164

13 April 2025

Apr 13, 2025

Introduction

I wish all who celebrate a very happy Easter next week. I will be taking a break over the Easter period but will be back the weekend of 27 April.

I rarely comment on specific links, but if I could encourage attention to the ‘Responding to Harm’ report published by Patient Experience Library, it would be gold dust for those of us looking at how poor organisational culture and behaviours lead to harmful practices and how to identify this. I will be using it at work with my team.

As always, I welcome any feedback, comments and suggestions. Have a good week!

purple petaled flowers — Photo by Phil Goodwin on Unsplash

Quote of the Week

Blogs and Articles

National child protection agency to provide oversight of practice in England - Community Care

Charity and banks aim to stop abusive ex-partners using mortgages as ‘weapon’ - The Independent.

'Brutal' restraint of autistic boy in calming room - BBC News

Woody Hands In His Badge – Love, Belief and Balls

Promoting wellbeing through Intergenerational Solidarity - Research in Practice

Our ordinary story … and how it became an unbelievable family experience of the Court of Protection – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

Bridging the divide - FosterWiki

The Trouble with Complex Trauma - Psychology Today

Deaths from drinking are at a record high: does England need a new alcohol strategy? - Nuffield Trust

Reading the room: mood music for the battlefield of organisational change - Health Policy Insight

Jersey abuse of children in care apology plaque proposed - BBC News

Policy, Reports and Resources

Responding to Harm—Patient Experience Library—This report is very helpful in analysing data to identify harmful patterns of behaviour and culture in organisations providing health and social care, using data from 10 years of inquiries.

Staying Safe from Suicide - NHS England

The Black Care Experience Network Newsletter - April 2025

Tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation: update - GOV.UK

New European Report on the Facts and Figures on Healthy Ageing and Long-Term Care - European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

Newborn babies in urgent care proceedings in England and Wales: An update - Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

Developing Shared Lives for people with a learning disability - Local Government Association

Explaining Triple Planning to Young People - ISWS - Supporting Separated Migrant Young People