Engage: Carers Strategy call for evidence – the story so far
It’s getting personal. In a good way. When this call for evidence launched in March, then – as now – I was keen to understand the reality of unpaid or
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Step Up to Social Work blog – by a Step Up trainee
It was around this time last year that I first read about the Step Up to Social Work Programme in my local newspaper. I had worked in a good range
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Lack of career fulfilment tops list of ‘life crisis’ events in new survey
Almost half (44%) of the British public have either had or are going through a ‘life crisis’, a poll recently commissioned by The Open University has revealed. To help people
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Webwatch: Fearless – supporting survivors of domestic abuse
Fearless, the national support service for survivors of domestic abuse in Scotland has launched a new website. The site www.fearless.scot offers information and resources on the service and allows users
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Report: CUTS – The impact of austerity on fostered children & families that care for them
The wellbeing of children living in foster care is under threat from Government funding cuts to local authority budgets in England, The Fostering Network is warning following a survey of
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Report: CentreForum Children & Young People’s Mental Health: State of the Nation
The CentreForum Think Tank have published their first report on children and young people’s mental health. Their new research has revealed the problems young people face when trying to access
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Living with adversity: What Tupac and Eminem can tell us about risk factors for mental health
Hip-hop artists Tupac and Eminem are among the most iconic music artists of the past two decades, and as Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster, co-founders of HIP-HOP-PSYCH, write,
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Report: 10,000 Voices Care in Your Own Home Regional Report (Northern Ireland)
This report presents the analysis of the information which has been received during Phase 2 of 10,000 Voices (February 2014 –September 2015) from patients/clients/carers and family members who receive care
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Research: How Does Completing Life Story Work Affect People with Dementia?
Personhood is at the core of person-centred care for people with dementia (PWD) (Kitwood, 1997). Life story work (LSW) is one of the most commonly utilised tools to focus those
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Guidance: New harm and abuse booklets published by AEA Scotland
Action on Elder Abuse (AEA) Scotland has recently published two new booklets in partnership with Age Scotland. ‘Keeping safe from harm and abuse’ is a helpful guide for older people
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