Insights
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The importance of workplace learning for social workers
5 Dec 2022Key points Workplaces and practice tasks offer rich sources of professional learning for social workers across their career…
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Understanding disguised non-compliance in social work
26 Sep 2022Key points The terms ‘non-engagement’ and ‘non-compliance’ describe deliberate behaviours that aim to reduce professional intervention. The term…
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Working with women with learning disabilities who have experienced gender-based violence
23 Aug 2022Key points The evidence base is limited due to inconsistencies around definitions, as well as a lack of…
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Parental participation at Initial Child Protection Case Conferences
6 Jun 2022Key points Parents who attend Initial1 Child Protection Case Conferences (CPCCs)2 report largely negative experiences which leave them…
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Care experience and friendship
26 May 2022Key points The desire for friendship is common to most children and young people. A lack of supportive…
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Self-directed support: ten years on
6 May 2021Key points It is ten years since the publication of the first national strategy for Self-directed Support (SDS)…
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Child protection in the 21st century: a role for contextual safeguarding
12 Apr 2021Key points While it remains imperative for social workers to be attentive to the risk of harm to…
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Dementia: attachment matters
9 Mar 2021Key points Attachment theory, most developed and applied to the early years, has relevance to our understanding of…
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Creating a culture of resilience for social workers
11 Jan 2021Key points Emotional resilience is broadly about coping with adverse situations Although common in human beings, resilience is…
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Rediscovering and mainstreaming community social work in Scotland
3 Nov 2020Key points Community social work challenges the notion that the role of a social worker is to produce…
