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
‘Maybe a maverick, maybe a parent, but definitely not an honorary nurse’: Social worker perspectives on the role and nature of social work in mental health care.
Article review by Professor Jonathan Scourfield on the article ‘Maybe a maverick, maybe a parent, but definitely not an honorary nurse: Social worker perspectives on the role and nature of social work in mental health care.’ Read More
Registration for the Health and Care Research Wales conference on 14 October is open now!
The theme of this year’s event is learning and looking forward and after the success of last year’s event, it will again be an entirely digital day. There are some great plenary sessions lined up on important topics including: Health and care research: learning from the pandemic; Research, innovation and improvement and Recovery and learning: new ideas… Read More
Perceived Impact on Client Outcomes: The Perspectives of Practicing Supervisors and Supervisees
Article review by Dr David Wilkins on the article ‘Perceived Impact on Client Outcomes: The Perspectives of Practicing Supervisors and Supervisees’ Read More
Ending child poverty: Welsh Government child poverty report
This report summarises what was done to help maximise the income of families living in poverty between 2020 and 2021… Read More
Leicestershire Cares’ contribution to the Care Review so far
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England is now well underway. Launched in March 2021, the Review is looking at what works well and what needs to change in the children’s social care system in England to make sure children and young people get the support they need… Read More
Building knowledge for policy and practice based on service user and carer experiences: A case study of Scottish adult safeguarding research
Article review written by Dr David Wilkins on the article ‘Building knowledge for policy and practice based on service user and carer experiences: A case study of Scottish adult safeguarding research’ Read More
Motivational Interviewing for working with children and families – a conversation
MI is now widely used in services for children, playing a key part in innovations such as Family Drug and Alcohol Courts, the Family Safeguarding model and Intensive Family Support Teams. In this session Steve Rollnick (co-creator of Motivational Interviewing) spoke with Donald Forrester, David Wilkins and Charlie Whittaker about their forthcoming book on this… Read More
Daniel Burrows in conversation with Chris Williamson
Dr Daniel Burrows is in conversation with Chris Williamson, a social work practice educator and trainer to talk about the implications of the study ‘Voices of Carers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Messages for the future of unpaid caring in Wales’ for social work practice. The study has been published by Cardiff University.
New book: the lived experience of disabled people, how their voices are ignored
This book deserves to be read if only to remind everyone responsible for developing and delivering care, how important it is to systemically embed the voice and lived experience of disabled people into the management and… Read More
