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Learning By Experience articles
If you want to find out about useful recent research on good practice in social care, this is the place for you. Here, academics and practitioners present their findings as we build up a database of evidence-based practice across adult and children’s social care. Click on the links below to locate articles of interest to you.
Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Information Sharing and Assessment: Opportunities to make a difference
Children leaving care give their verdict on the services they receivedDisabled students and staff: disclosing disabilityEducation of children in care
Elder Abuse: prevalence and prevention
Obstacles to choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilitiesPersonalisation: Who Care about Personal Assistants?PQSW QualificationRe-ablement services: impact and effectsReducing depression: How older people's care workers can helpSocial work in the information ageUnaccompanied asylum-seeking children
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Liberating adult social work
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