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How to...handle difficult conversations
Even the most experienced social workers can struggle with broaching sensitive topics, whether with service users or colleagues. Communications consultant Natasha Stone offers advice on how to prepare for and handle difficult conversations.
08 May 2012
What service users want from social workers
What do service users want from social workers? Social work academic and mental health service user Peter Beresford says that research points to four crucial qualities.
27 April 2012
How the police can help social workers assess risk
Former senior police officer Nigel Boulton looks at how the police approach risk and why the future lies in multi-agency assessment teams, as now being investigated by the Munro Review
18 March 2011
'My job is about giving confidence back to social workers'
When Eileen Munro recommended that every local authority should have a principal social worker, the government was quick to accept the proposal. Almost a year on, how is the role working in practice? Tristan Donovan speaks to Medway council’s first ever principal social worker.
22 March 2012
Research: Protecting adults at risk across council boundaries
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has worked with London councils, the police and the NHS to produce guidelines on safeguarding adults
30 September 2011
Book review: Community Development: A Critical Approach
The coalition government is vigorously engaged in reducing the role of the state in the delivery of services in education, including schools and universities, the health service and services traditionally delivered by local authorities, writes Keith Popple.
10 October 2011
Book review: Hearing the Person with Dementia
Recent policy initiatives such as the dementia strategy for England have encouraged an increasing awareness of the needs of people with dementia, writes Dr Elaine Argyle.
26 October 2011
Social workers must not neglect their own mental health
Mental health consultant Mike Bush explains why trainers and employers must work harder to protect and promote the mental health and resilience of social workers
09 December 2011
Research findings on social pedagogy
Social work academic Joe Smeeton examines research findings contained in Raising the bar? Evaluation of the Social Pedagogy Pilot in residential children's homes
01 December 2011
Practice issues in adult safeguarding at a time of cuts
Adult safeguarding consultant Patrick Worthington (pictured) examines the key practice issues facing social care professionals in keeping adults at risk safe at a time of austerity and change
05 December 2011
Social workers must address service users' poor hygiene
Peter Bates argues that more attention needs to be paid to poor personal hygiene and its contribution to social exclusion
01 December 2011
Ask the Expert: becoming a family support worker
I have recently completed a degree in criminology and law, and I want to pursue a career as a family support worker - but lack experience. What's the best way to go about getting to this field?
01 December 2011
Children's homes struggle to provide care and education on the premises
Despite Ofsted's feared new inspection regime and a tough economic climate, children's homes are mostly improving. Judy Cooper reports on the effect of inspections on outcomes
22 November 2011
Why a specialist asperger's team is the way forward for one council
The challenge of supporting adults with high-functioning autism, including the need for in-depth assessment, has convinced one council to set up a specialist team to cater for them, writes Natalie Valios
21 November 2011
The impact of competitive tendering on social services and service users
Mark Drinkwater reports on how competitive tendering of services can leave staff, and service users, feeling all at sea
18 November 2011
Are riot-related social housing evictions just empty threats?
Social housing providers talked tough after the summer street disturbances. Samantha Thorp asks whether they were empty threats
21 November 2011
How retro-styling homes can help elderly people with dementia feel more comfortable
Retro-decorating can help people with dementia to stay at home for longer by placing familiar items from their past in their home to reduce anxiety and to trigger memories. Jeremy Dunning reports
17 November 2011
Research: multiple exclusion homelessness
Michelle Cornes and Jill Manthorpe summarise the findings of the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Research Programme outlining the key practice implications for social workers
17 November 2011
How to…work with housing colleagues
BASW policy development officer Joe Godden explores how social workers can work better with their colleagues in housing
17 November 2011
Can councils still afford to house care leavers?
Legislation to improve the lot of children leaving care needs to be backed by money, finds Joe Lepper
17 November 2011
