Domestic abuse is a major public health, human rights and criminal justice concern, costing the UK an estimated £66 billion every year… Read More

It is over 30 years since the publication of an influential paper by Ann Weick, Charles Rudd, Patrick Sullivan and Walter Kisthardt, which crystallized a case for a ‘strengths perspective’ in social work. This perspective evolved from a shared determination to turn away from a policy and practice focus on ‘problems’, ‘deficits’, ‘the negative aspects of peoples and society’ (Weick et al 1989, p. 350), and their disempowering mark. Weick et al (1989) situate this perspective as an expression of social work’s values, and as challenge to rethink professional and institutional power which diminishes a person’s capacity to be the expert in their own lives… Read More

Our director Auriol Miller was on the advisory board of The Health Foundation’s COVID-19 impact inquiry. Its report, which was launched in July 2021. Read More