Weekly Social Work Links - Issue #38

Blogs and Articles

The leading family judge has launched a national deprivation of liberty court to deal with the spike in applications to place children in restrictive placements

How can new and emerging digital technologies advance, rather than put at risk, the human rights of older people who draw on social care? Neil Crowther and Lorna Mcgregor discuss

An exploration of psychological assessments and recommendations: a Local Authority's perspective By Richard Devine, Social Worker for Bath and North East Somerset Council

Reports, Resources and Policy

This explainer provides an overview of how health inequalities are experienced in England’s population.

Video

A session from last week's BASW conference

This week Siobhan and the team are joined by guest speaker Shantel Thomas as she explores the topic of Adultification,

Audio

In this episode of the podcast Stephen talks to Angela Kirwin author of 'Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All' about the reality of being 'behind the wall'.

In May, the Independent Review of Children's Social Care called for £2.6 billion investment to reform a system that is under “extreme stress”.

Tony Simpson was born in a Salvation Army Mother and Baby home and then at the age of just three months was taken into care, where he was to remain until he was 16. In this three-part series he compares his experiences with those who have been through the care system more recently.

While policy makers, legislators and service providers consider how the system should be improved, this series considers what the actual experience of being in care is like.

Research

Kinship care is when families provide long-term care for children when their previous primary carers cannot care for them. Despite its increasing use worldwide,

Drawing on the theoretical work of Wacquant, Bourdieu and Foucault, we interrogate how the COVID-19 pandemic has weaponised child and family social work practices through reinvigorated mechanisms of discipline and surveillance. We explore how social workers are caught in the struggle between enforcement and relational welfare support.

Events

The Global Online Summit “Co-building a new Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind”

Keeping Children Safe in Education - summary of changes and what this means for settings and Designated Safeguarding Leads.

Following the success of last year's virtual conference, this year we will again be holding the annual implementation science research conference online.

Pot Luck

The Internet is full of promises and allegations. Some of these claims are based on paywalled research. Fortunately, there are workarounds.