This Insight is intended to summarise the evidence in this challenging area of work and to support practitioners to reflect on their practice in this context. An enhanced understanding of
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A report provided findings of the independent evaluation of the Social Work Practice with Adults (SWPwA) pilots. SWPwA’s were organizations independent of local authorities that were contracted to support adults
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A report provided an overview of existing research evidence on factors that influenced parental capacity to change in families where there were significant child protection concerns. It brought together evidence
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An article examined users’ experiences of care in a range of settings, by combining data from four studies where participants were older people living in care homes or extra care
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A report examined the way that local authorities implemented third party top-up fee arrangements, and their concerns in light of the implementation of the Care Act. It said that around
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The NHS Online Mentoring project is designed to help young people explore over 300 careers available in the NHS. Mentees are matched with a mentor working in their area of
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‘Hands up for Health’ provides young people with a real sense of what it’s like to work in health and social care using life-like state-of-the-art manikins, set in a hospital
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‘Wellbeing is about how things are going for children and young people in their lives’. While the Wellbeing for Young Scots website provides information about what Scottish Government is doing
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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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Abstract: For most looked after children and young people, foster and residential care provides a safe environment. This study has focused on the minority of children who do not always
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