Social work resources and services

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The UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work.

Named Social Worker: findings from six pilot sites report

Part of Named Social Worker

Sets out the findings from the six sites which have been part of the Named Social Work programme during the six months from October 2016 to March 2017.

Living and learning together: conference report: August 2004

The General Social Care Council (GSCC) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) share a commitment to putting service users and carers at the heart of all aspects of social work and social care, including social work education. As part of this commitment, the GSCC and SCIE held a joint conference in November 2003, to promote and share different approaches to service user and carer involvement in social work education and training. This report provides a summary of the content of the conference, an analysis of lessons learnt and some suggestions and practical tips about putting this into practice effectively. We hope it will contribute to further developing knowledge and dissemination of good practice in this area.

Partnership working in child protection

This film looks at how hospitals and local authorities can work together more effectively to protect children and identify and reduce the risk of maltreatment.

Partnership working in child protection: improving liaison between acute pediatric and child protection services

Summary of how hospital trusts and councils' social care services can work together to identify and prevent child abuse and maltreatment

Partnership working in child protection: Scunthorpe case study

Hospital, council and police staff in Scunthorpe explain how they work together to protect children

Partnership working in child protection: Cardiff case study

Hospital and council staff in Cardiff explain how they work together to protect children

Social care and health inequalities

This resource introduces the concepts of health inequalities and provide practical examples of the ways in which all of social work practice contributes to tackling health inequalities.

Research Mindedness

The Research mindedness learning resource has been produced to help students and practitioners of social care and social work make more effective and extensive use of research in their studies and in practice.

Mental health, employment and the social care workforce

Evidence about what hinders people with mental health problems from working in social care, and what helps them to gain and/or retain employment.