Engage: Improving ourselves to keep children safe
“The recent report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham is upsetting in so many ways, not least for the girls and young women who were abused. As is often the
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Engage: Care about poverty? Here are 10 reasons why you also need to think about ethnicity
Ethnicity matters when it comes to tackling poverty. But, says Helen Barnard, it’s not about broad generalisations. For the last three years we have funded research into the links between
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Engage: Social workers should be paid and trained like doctors
Social workers deal with messy, complex and ambiguous situations where off-the-peg solutions are often irrelevant. Take a mother who wants to feed a hungry baby, but her fridge is empty
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Engage: Outrage at privatising child protection should spark an overhaul of the whole system
The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore
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Engage: Where next for integration and funding?
It is estimated that the NHS faces a shortfall of at least £30 billion a year within a decade and possibly a deficit as high as £50 billion. Martin Stevens
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Engage: Responding to the Dementia Challenge: Policy into practice
Over the last couple of years, the country’s focus on improving the standard of dementia care has intensified. Partly, I believe, as a response to David Cameron’s Dementia Challenge pledge,
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Engage: Stalemate – Dilemmas When Working Out-of-hours and the Difficulty with Teenage Girls
Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, as well as doing my day job, I also worked one or two shifts a week on the out-of-hours standby duty team. This team, consisting
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Engage: Personalisation in Focus | Making it Real – more than an idea
With Think Local Act Personal now confirmed that it will continue transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based support, the Making it Real (MiR) workplan endeavours to improve outcomes,
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Engage: What to do about poor working conditions in adult social care
Baroness Kingsmill’s independent report for the Labour Party paints a disturbing picture of working conditions in the adult care sector. Her findings highlight underlying issues that have not been fully
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Engage: The relevance of design research for social services
I consider myself a bit of a magpie; a bit of a scavenger when it comes to research: I’m opportunistic, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. My current design research projects are varied;
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