Inform Children

Community Care Inform Children provides practice guidance, legal information and learning tools for children and families social workers. If you have a subscription, go to the full site. For further information about the service or how your organisation can subscribe to Inform, please email our Helpdesk, call 020 3915 9444 or visit our 'about us' page.
The articles below provide tasters or excerpts of some of the resources on Community Care Inform Children, and include links to the full versions.
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Inform Adults, Inform Children, Mental Health

How social workers can work with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health

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Inform Adults, Inform Children

How social work managers can manage stress

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Inform Adults, Inform Children

How to manage fear in social work

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Inform Adults, Inform Children

Creating online reflective spaces when working from home

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Inform Adults, Inform Children

How to recognise and manage secondary trauma during the pandemic

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Inform Children

Intersectionality: race, gender and other aspects of identity in social work with young people

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Careers Zone, Coronavirus, Inform Adults, Inform Children

Social work podcasts to support you through and beyond Covid-19

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Inform Adults, Inform Children, Workforce

How to support your emotional resilience and wellbeing during the pandemic

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Inform Children

Critical reflection: how to develop it in your practice

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Inform Children

Podcast: Child to parent violence and abuse

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Inform Children

Multi-agency working: setting up a professional network around a family

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Inform Children

Podcast: Neglect, poverty and affluence

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Inform Children

Podcast: Looked-after children and self-harm

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Inform Children

Working with parents of looked-after children: key tips for social workers

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Inform Children

Podcast: Fabricated or induced illness: what it is and what the signs are

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Inform Children

Tips for social workers on cultural competence

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