Weekly Social Work Links - Issue 81

18th June 2023

Introduction

Going to be speedier and more concise with my intros and hopefully let the newsletter speak for itself. I’m adding a section at the top for months/days/weeks - let me know if I am missing any important ones and have a fruitful week.

Photo by Aida Batres on Unsplash

Awareness Months, Weeks, Days

Pride Month (June)

Gypsy, Romani and Traveller History Month (June)

Learning Disability Week (w/c 19th June)

Rose Awareness Week (w/c 19th June)

Windrush Day 75 22nd June

Quote of the week

Blogs and Articles

Rights - Rewriting social care

Power & Autonomy - Shorts Media

Case study: The diagnostic step and the causative nexus - Mental Capacity

Richard Humphries: Funding reform is huge challenge for Fabians’ national care service - Local Government Chronicle

That feeling of payback time... Which me am I today?

Let me get this straight: Hoardiculture - Research in Practice

Policy, Reports and Resources

Care Experience as a Protected Characteristic - Briefing Report - Care Leaver Local Offer (direct link to PDF file is available here)

Report examines attitudes to race today as Britain marks 75th Windrush anniversary - British Future (direct link to PDF file is available here)

Taking Care – Immigration support pledge and learning package for local authorities – South London Refugee Association

Safe care at home review - Gov.UK

Family Group Conferences at Pre-Proceedings Stage - Foundations

Video

Best Interests - BBC iPlayer

Understanding the perspectives of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people, family and staff when transforming care for people in ‘long-stay’ hospitals. Why are we stuck in hospital? University of Birmingham

Loneliness - Pets and loneliness - Social Care Talk

Audio

The Adoption and Fostering Podcast - #Conversations - Adoptive Parent Peter

Let's Talk Social Work - Talking Heads: reflecting on the role of podcasts as learning resources - BASW

Research

The Politics of Attachment: Lines of Flight with Bowlby, Deleuze and Guattari - Theory, Culture and Society

“They were here, and they still matter”: A qualitative study of bereaved parents legacy experiences and perceptions - Palliative Medicine

Events

Webinar: New research on ethnic disparities in care proceedings - Nuffield Family Justice Observatory - 21 June

Child Welfare Inequalities Network - 28 June

National AMHP Day Webinar - AMHP Leads Network and Yorkshire AMHPs Group - 29 June

Webinar: The Flourishing Lives Tour - SCIE - 30 June

Principles of Practice Book Launch - Tavistock Training - 5 July

Shaping the future of practice education - Research in Practice (various dates - 16 and 17 July)

The Homelessness Social Worker role - challenges and impact - KCL - 20 July

Pot Luck

A read

Six years on from Grenfell: This is life in the shadow of the tower - The Big Issue

A listen

GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive

A watch

Challenging Racisms: Antisemitism as Racisms - University of Westminster