Weekly Social Work Links
8 January 2023
Introduction
Welcome back and welcome to new subscribers. This is my first links newsletter for 2023 and first on Substack after moving from Revue. Thanks for coming with me. I’m always open to suggestions and feedback and that might be easier on this platform as you can comment directly on the post. As the format is a little different to Revue, I’ll add a few lines about why I have chosen the links that I have.
Thanks for your patience with the move. Feel free to share/recommend to friends and colleagues and let me know what find useful/interesting or unhelpful so I can improve!
Happy New Year!
Blogs and Articles
This is a mixture of articles and blogs I’ve come across. Some, like the Relational Activism one, aren’t new but I add when I became aware of them, rather than when they are written as there is so much out there.
Belonging – Rewriting social care - Bryony Shannon
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism (ssir.org)
CS end of year blog 2022 | Contextual Safeguarding
Reports, Resources and Policy
Not so much on this front from me this week but a few December round ups.
Breaking the link between financial difficulty and suicide | Local Government Association
Safeguarding Pressures Phase 8 | ADCS
Ofsted Annual Report 2021/22: education, children’s services and skills - GOV.UK
Video
A video from Mental Capacity Law and Policy is always a treat so the round up proves to be very useful as CPD. Queenie Vee is a new YouTube channel I discovered (new to me, rather than new!) and she produces great content for social workers from overseas looking to work in England.
2022 – a year in (mostly) Court of Protection cases shedinar – Mental Capacity Law and Policy
Living in UK, The Expectation Vs Reality - Queenie Vee’s Community
Audio
I chose these two as I think it’s always interesting to discover new podcasts in the social care space. The first is a US-based podcast called The Lived Experience Podcast and there are lots of great interviews, I chose one from a UK perspective. The second is one I hadn’t come across before ‘Access Social Care’ - a charity I had not been familiar with but recommend checking the website out. They provide advice to people to access social care.
Research
These are two open access articles which I came across over the last couple of weeks, very different areas but both ones that I think can teach us something beyond the area in which they are based. Theme being how we listen to better to voices which might not be so ‘loud’ in the systems in which we work.
Event
What's in store for health and care in 2023? | The King's Fund 24 January
Latest social care insights from research — NIHR School for Social Care Research - 26 January
Pot Luck
Often there is no reason behind the links I put here. Just interesting things I come across that don’t fit in anywhere else. I hope you enjoy!
Doing a great job! Thanks for connecting us to some great stuff!