Weekly Social Work Links - Issue #19

Blogs and Articles

Scarlett Murray looks at the impact of "spastic" evolving from a medical term to a derogatory term.

A new blog about, well, what it says in the title!

Useful piece from psychiatrist, @lindagask about the draft NICE guidelines.

Useful post about leadership, specifically in context of Safeguarding Leads but has resonance far beyond that.

While knowing the number of people detained in hospital is certainly helpful, it is by no means the whole picture; we need a data revolution.

Reports, Policy, Resources

Improving health and social care statistics: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Thus us a review published towards the end of last year about complaints made to the ombudsman about adult social care and is useful reading (the link leads to all the reviews)

Video

A summary of the recent article ‘Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children in Child Welfare Services in England’ published in the British Journal of Social Work.

National Mental Capacity Forum are running a series of rapid response webinars. This is a bit of a cheat from me as there are many videos here - rather than just one but if you haven't caught them, there's some exceptional content here.

Audio

Another episode of the Social Work Research Podcast about with Dr Jill Manthorpe about practitioners' experiences during the pandemic

How do we ensure people's voices are reflected in shaping policy and development? We discuss examples of how we tackle ensuring peoples voices are considered beyond formal consultations. Conversation with Paul Gutherson.

Research

This paper describes a practitioner reflection on early help for migrant families with no recourse to public funds. We used Maclean’s ‘weather model’ to examine the positives and challenges of the ...

The e-journal Social Work and Society is dedicated to critical analysis of the relationship between social work, social policy, the state and economic forces. Another cheat from me here. Rather than link to one of the articles as I was going to - I'm linking to the whole journal (all open access!) to allow all of you to choose what you might be interested in (for the record, I was going to link the one about students and protest!)

Events

Eventbrite - Coproduce Care presents 'The White Paper - A Reflection' Livestream - Monday, 17 January 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

Eventbrite - NQSW Peer Support Group - Thursday, 20 January 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

Professor Christine Cocker of UEA presents a free lecture

A FREE webinar by the Department of Social Work and Social Care

Pot Luck

A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you! — Jalal al-Din Rumi