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Community Care Inform now provides in-depth social work practice information across two sites

 

Community Care Inform provides critical information in a quick and accessible format to help social work professionals make and evidence their decisions. Community Care Inform Children is designed for children and families social workers, while Community Care Inform Adults is aimed at social work professionals working with disabled and older people.

 

For further information on how your organisation can subscribe to Inform please email our Helpdesk or call 020 3915 9444. For a taster of the content available to Inform subscribers see the tips pieces below.

Core skills

Multi-agency working: setting up a professional network around a family
Tips for social workers on cultural competence
Writing chronologies
Using a time diary to stay on top of your workload
Dealing with conflict at work
Top tips on reflective writing
Working in fear: how to handle frightening situations
Improving your analysis and supervision
Case recording and record keeping
Building emotional resilience
Managing professional boundaries

Court work

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What to include in a court report about direct work
Appearing as a witness in court
Writing court reports
Preparing balance sheet evidence
Preparing section 7 reports for court

Supervision and management

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Tools to help students with reflective practice and using theory
Five tips for being an effective leader
Top tips on making the transition from practitioner to manager
Advice for new social work supervisors
Top tips for practice educators on assessment, supervision and anti-oppressive practice
Tips for practice educators working with a struggling student
How to make supervision effective
Managing risk in social work
Top tips for social work managers on supporting staff wellbeing

Safeguarding adults

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Working with adults who have experienced child sexual exploitation
Safeguarding adults with dementia
How social workers can spot the signs of scams
Social work with d/Deaf people: key tips on adult safeguarding
Understanding mate crime
The A-Z of the Care Act
Working with independent advocates
Forensic social work

Safeguarding children

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Developing a social work approach to radicalisation
Parental alienation: what it is and how it’s different to implacable hostility
Social work practice in FGM cases
Working with children who have been trafficked
Preventing and raising awareness of child sexual exploitation
Working with fathers: key advice from research

Adoption and fostering

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Undertaking life story work
Preventing adoption breakdown
Social media and adoption – what social workers need to know
Making successful foster placements
Making a success of Staying Put arrangements

Attachment

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Using attachment theory in practice: top tips
Attachment theory in social work with adults

Asylum and immigration

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Supporting children and families with no recourse to public funds
Asylum age assessments: key advice for social workers
Placement making in social work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

Domestic abuse

The toxic trio: what social workers need to know
When should social workers involve the police in domestic abuse cases?
How to identify perpetrators of domestic abuse and coercive control
Domestic abuse and child contact

Practice models

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Strengths-based questions in social work assessments
What is evidence-based practice?
Strengths-based conversations: quick tips for practice
What is systemic practice?
Motivational interviewing: what it is and how you can use it in social work

Social work in Wales

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The Welsh language and social work practice

Integrated working

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What are primary health needs: demystifying continuing healthcare
Tips for overcoming conflict with GP colleagues
Getting to grips with integrated working
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