Weekly Social Work Links - Issue 82

25 June 2023

Introduction

Thanks again for your time and space in your inbox. Always welcome comments and suggestions and feel free to share with colleagues.

Have a good week and Eid Mubarak for later in the week!

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Awareness Months, Weeks, Days

Pride Month (June)

Gypsy, Romani and Traveller History Month (June)

World Wellbeing Week (w/c 26 June)

Eid ul-Adha (28 June)

Quote of the week

Blogs and Articles

Abuse and coercive control? A fact-finding hearing and exoneration – Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection

What should happen where it appears impossible to engage the person? A high-stakes question for the Court of Protection – Mental Capacity Law and Policy

Top 10 blogs on Mental Capacity and the Mental Capacity Act - Mental Capacity

Mental health services for sexual minorities: experiences of discrimination, barriers to services and priorities for improvement - National Elf Service

Independent Safeguarding Board disbanded and its members sacked as Church ‘resets’ - The Church Times

‘Is it based on a true story?’ – A review of new BBC TV drama, “Best Interests” - The Transparency Project

Suffolk County Council failed to provide adequate care based on an assessment, or to communicate its reasoning for decisions, or to support a carer adequately - CASCAIDr

Why it’s time to stop calling people 'idiots'. — Stephen Unwin

Policy, Reports and Resources

ADASS Spring Survey - Final Report

Under the influence: how harmful is social media to children and young people? - Crest Advisory

Working with male carers to reduce non-accidental injury to infants under 1 year old - Foundations

APPG publishes report on the (in)adequacy of social security - APPG Poverty

Piloting free CPD resources to support social workers involved in disasters - BASW

Video

What Is Radical Candor? Kim Scott explains in 6 minutes

Audio

#57 The legal framework that underpins Lasting Power of Attorney and Deprivation of Liberty - Speak for Me

Why police are stepping back from mental health callouts - The Guardian - Today in Focus

Research

From behaviour-based to ecological: Multi-agency partnership responses to extra-familial harm - Journal of Social Work

Learning from Ikibiri and Ubuntu to Decolonise Social Work Research in Higher Education - Practice

Events

Child Welfare Inequalities Network - 28 June

National AMHP Day 2023 - AMHP Leads Network and Yorkshire AMHP Group - 29 June

Ethics - a roundtable event - Co-Production Collection - 29 June

Principles of Practice - Tavistock Training - 5 July

Towards 'An Ordinary Life' - King's College London - 14 July

Shaping the future of practice education - Research in Practice (various dates)

An introduction to leading with kindness and compassion in health and social care - The King's Fund (free e-learning)

Pot Luck

A read

“Meraki”: How to cultivate passion in your work - Big Think

A listen

How the Windrush generation shaped British culture - Today in Focus

A watch

Windrush: Portraits of a Generation - BBC Sounds