Report: Community visiting in care homes
A report evaluated the Community Visitor (CV) pilot scheme in three care homes for older people in Essex, south east England. CVs visited care homes every week, aiming to befriend
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Report: Self-directed support — Scottish audit report
An audit report in Scotland said that councils had started to make changes to social care, but progress in implementing self-directed support had been mixed among councils, and they had
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Report: Evaluation of Crisis Skylight services
A report provided findings from the first year of a three-year evaluation of Crisis Skylight services in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Merseyside, Newcastle, and Oxford. Skylight services were designed to improve
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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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Job hunting tips for newly qualified social workers
Rebecca Joy Novell shares the best advice she was given while looking for a job as a newly qualified social worker Approaching the end of my masters was a very
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SSSC issue modern Modern Apprenticeships case-studies
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published a series of case studies to showcase apprenticeship opportunities with the social care sector. Apprenticeships offer people the chance of paid employment
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Webwatch – Write to Recovery
On 12 June 2014, the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) launched its Write to Recovery website at The Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. The launch forms part of the organisation’s 10-year
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New Book: Could addiction recovery be contagious?
New book is first to examine theory behind recovery capital and contagion through personal accounts of those in recovery. Strength, Support, Setbacks and Solutions is a new handbook from Pavilion
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Report: Transnational social workers’ mobility
An article examined the structural challenges at political, practice, regulatory, and individual levels that affected the ability of social workers to cross borders. Drawing on two empirical research projects, it
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Report: Organization and delivery of mental health services
A report provided an outline of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ position on the separation of mental healthcare between in-patient and community and within the community. It said that decisions
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