Engage: Dementia and Politics – from the social work perspective
The last few years in the UK have been marked by a surge in interest in dementia from politicians. It dates from the dawning realisation that dementia costs more than
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Engage: How Jeremy Hunt’s seven-day NHS plans will punish social workers
Sarah Pollock, Lecturer in Social Work argues that Government plans will increase the challenges facing social workers Proposals to offer routine NHS England services seven days a week have already
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Engage: Vanessa Lodge on new moves to tackle Female Genital Mutilation
This is the time of year when young girls may be taken abroad for female genital mutilation (FGM). Vanessa Lodge, Chair of the national FGM steering group for NHS England,
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Engage: Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that’s why they’re not heeded
As part of the government’s strategy to cut the human and economic cost of alcohol misuse, it currently recommends that men and women shouldn’t regularly drink more than three to
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Engage: ‘Compound Harms: What the Literature Says About U.K. and U.S. Transgender Young People in Survival Sex’
Transgender (trans)* young people engaging in survival sex in the United Kingdom and the United States is a major research gap and this blog will introduce a limited selection of
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Engage: How to implement the University of Birmingham’s research into social care micro-enterprises
In July 2015, the University of Birmingham released a report ‘Micro-Enterprises: Small enough to care?’ The report summarised the findings of a two year evaluation of micro-enterprises in social care
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Engage: Social care workers must be rewarded
Cornerstone is one of the largest care providers in Scotland, providing services to children and adults in 20 of the country’s 32 local authority areas. With a turnover of almost
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Engage: Social care evidence base
Social care may be the poor relation of healthcare with regard to research funding, but it’s something of a myth that it is not evidence-based, says Research in Practice Director
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Engage: NHS needs agency staff, but it must manage them better
The use of temporary agency staff in the NHS is not a new story, but recently re-appeared after Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, admitted that hospitals were over
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Engage: Could social workers be spending less time in administration and more time with children?
Social workers have to complete many important yet time-consuming administrative tasks to support vulnerable children and families. Phil Neal looks at the technology that could help free them from their
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