Weekly Social Work Links - Issue 64

29/01/23

Introduction

Thanks all for the feedback and comments. It really helps me adapt, develop and quite frankly, feel useful! I am making a slight tweak from this week which you are free to ignore if it isn’t useful and that is adding a couple more links to my ‘pot luck’ section because I keep finding useful or interesting reads/listens/watches that aren’t related to social work or social care. It might be a trial, or I might keep it - let me know what you think!

As always, happy to take any suggestions/comments.

Have a fruitful week

Blogs and Articles

Social care, rethinking, rebalancing and redesigning - NDTi

Compassion and empathy, or are we all "buggered" - CKMG - The Critical AMHP

Unspeakable Thoughts: When staff think "if you were going to kill yourself you'd have done it by now" - Beam Consultancy

Poverty and Marginalisation - forgotten risk factors that never went away - Dr Shubulade Smith - Inspire the Mind

How The Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood Shaped Dickens and His Portrayal of Older Adults in Oliver Twist - Co-operative Merv Unleashed

Policy, Reports and Resources

Care and Support Reimagined - A National Care Covenant for England - Archbishop's Care Commission - Church of England

Mental Health and the Cost-of-Living Crisis : Another Pandemic in the Making? Mental Health Foundation

UK Poverty 2023 : The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Siblings in Care - Children's Commissioner for England

Who cares? The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector - Resolution Foundation

Video

Draft Mental Health Bill - the Parliamentary scrutiny committee reports (and walkthrough) - Mental Capacity Law and Policy

BJSW Editor's Choice - Dr Paul Daniel Shuttleworth, author of the Editor’s Choice paper for the 53(1) Issue of the British Journal of Social Work, titled ‘Recognition of Family Life by Children living in kinship care arrangements in England.

Understanding the Different Rates in Kinship Care Webinar - What Works in Childrens Social Care

Audio

Entering Care - The real reasons children come into care - The Care Leaders Podcast

You and Yours - The Adult Social Care Crisis? Will it ever get fixed? BBC Sounds

Research

Being and becoming a father in the context of heavy drinking and other substance use—a qualitative evidence synthesis - Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

No Knowledge of ‘Public Funds’? An Investigation into Social Work Practitioners’ Confidence and Knowledge When Working with Adults with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ - British Journal of Social Work

Events

National Evaluation of Mental Health Support Teams - University of Birmingham - 6 February

Race, Racism and Culture in Mental Health Services - Seminar Series - (weekly from 15/2/2022 until 22/03/22) - Maudsley Cultural Psychiatry Group

Age of Health: Inequalities and Social Justice - School of Global Affairs - 7 March

Community Care has announced a Festival of Learning between 27

th and 31st March 2023- while many sessions are charged, there are some free sessions as well including Partnership and transformation in prevention and early intervention services and I’ll highlight others over the next few weeks

And of course, many events as part of Social Work Week coming from the 20th to 24th March

Pot Luck

A Read

Are dogs good for your health? Rory Cellan-Jones (and #sophiefromromania)

A Watch

How the Holocaust Began

A Listen

Sticky Notes - A Classical Music Podcast this is a wonderful listen whether you know nothing and want to learn more about classical music or are already into it.