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'What the Supreme Court's AGNI ruling means for people with dementia"
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (967+ words) The Supreme Court’s recent AGNI judgment, which overturned its landmark 2014 Cheshire West ruling, has divided professionals, practitioners and academics. At the same time, the judges ruled that a person could validly consent to what would otherwise be a deprivation of…...
How time becomes power when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (1075+ words) As a social worker supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, I regularly reflect on power: how these young people experience the power of the immigration regime, and how my role can both support them to navigate such dynamics and unintentionally perpetuate them....
Practitioners lack confidence in Social Work England to address fitness to practise delays, poll finds
1+ week, 5+ day ago (382+ words) Practitioners lack confidence in Social Work England's capacity to address fitness to practise delays, a poll has found. The finding comes in the wake of the Independent Review of Social Work Professional Regulation in England, which branded current delays as…...
How to deal with uncertainty in children's social work
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1006+ words) This is the 17th instalment in Sophie Baker’s ‘What I wish I had known…’ series, where she reflects on her approach to practice when she started out – and what she would tell her younger self now. As a newly qualified social…...
Social Work Tales: a mental health crisis in the middle of the night
2+ week, 6+ day ago (752+ words) This is the second article in the series 'Social Work Tales', where retired social worker Mike Scott looks back on his 40 years in the sector and reminisces about the mishaps, the triumphs and the cases that struck a chord. Not…...
Racial inequalities between social care staff: what the data says
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1722+ words) Skills for Care recently published the latest report of the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES): its tool for tracking racial disparities among staff in local authority adults' and children's services in England. The SC-WRES is based on data…...
How motivational interviewing can reduce self-doubt in social work
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1160+ words) Recently, I received a message from someone I had worked with when I was a newly qualified social worker. Now an adult, they told me they were about to start a social work degree and that this decision was shaped…...
Being trauma-informed in statutory mental health social work
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1107+ words) Consider Sarah. You are a social worker in an adult mental health team, preparing to knock on her door to complete an assessment under the Care Act 2014. Her file is full of warnings. She is described as “difficult to engage…...
The risk of over-empathising as a social worker
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1287+ words) This is the 16th instalment in Sophie Baker’s ‘What I wish I had known…’ series, where she reflects on her approach to practice when she started out – and what she would tell her younger self now. As a newly qualified social…...
Social workers reject regulator's plan to use AI for CPD
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (390+ words) Practitioners have rejected Social Work England’s suggestion that it will use artificial intelligence (AI) to review continuing professional development (CPD) entries in future, a poll has found. The regulator has been considering the use of AI as part of its…...