From April 2015, the way the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspect multi-agency arrangements that help, protect and care for vulnerable children and young people is changing. A new, integrated approach
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A report examined literacy and numeracy skills among homeless people in England. An assessment of 139 people and 30 in-depth interviews with clients of a homelessness service found that: half
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An article examined the costs and outcomes of advocacy provided to parents with learning disabilities at risk of having their children taken into care. It said that the potential cost
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A report examined the impact on children of having a parent in prison. It said that an estimated 200,000 children across England and Wales, 1,500 children at any one time
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