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The 'practical idealist'
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.09, 2009, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Lucy Bolden, who works for the disability charity Papworth Trust, has been recognised as an Excellence Network champion by Community Care. This article looks at her commitment and work with the Foundations for Living project.
A COVID-19 guide for social workers supporting an adult with learning disabilities/autism
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide to help social workers and occupational therapists supporting autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities through the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. It aims to help occupational therapists and social workers keep people with learning disabilities and autistic adults safe, while at the same time protecting and promoting people's rights wherever possible. Areas covered in the guide include: staying well; advance planning; easements of the Care Act and Mental Health Act; safeguarding and death and bereavement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Named Social Worker site profiles and resources
- Authors:
- INNOVATION UNIT, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- Innovation Unit, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 77
- Place of publication:
- London
This set of resources complements 'Putting people at the heart of social work: lessons from the Named Social Worker Programme'. It shares the profiles of sites involved in the programme, summarise each site's approach, and includes some of the tools, stories and resources that have been created throughout the programme. These include a reflective supervision template, a risk enablement panel framework, a knowledge and skills statement for advance practice, and a transitions protocol. (Edited publisher abstract)
Capabilities statement for adults with learning disability implementation resources: toolkits for social workers, organisations, people with lived experience and educators
- Authors:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
These implementation resources support social workers, organisations, people with lived experience and higher education institutions to implement the Capabilities statement and continuous professional development (CPD) pathway for social work with adults with learning disability. The resources include: a practice toolkit for social workers; a toolkit for adults with learning disabilities – including resources that explain the role of the social worker, a feedback resource as part of the Hair Tool, and easy read material, and resources for critical friends – a video and visual Hair Tool designed by people with lived experience, questions for adults with learning disabilities and social workers to gather feedback and evaluate the impact of practice; a self-evaluation tool for organisations; and a post-graduate curriculum outline for higher education institutions, including how to develop a modular, blended learning approach. (Edited publisher abstract)
Written out of history: invisible women in intellectual disability social work
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, ATKINSON Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 63(1), March 2010, pp.4-17.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The area of intellectual disability is an important field of social work practice in both Britain and Australia. Yet this is also a multidisciplinary field in which the role of social workers, particularly women, in contributing to the lives of people with intellectual disability and their families has largely gone unnoticed. Focusing on England and Victoria, Australia in particular, this paper uses oral history interviews with 3 long-standing social workers, and documentary evidence including government reports and newspaper coverage, to explore the similarity in the roles of social workers in intellectual disability. It covers the period between the beginning of social work in this field, which in the case of England was 1929 and in Victoria 1952, until the end of the 1990s. Work with families is identified as being central in both countries, as well as mediating relationship between institutions and services, families, and the community, and service development and advocacy. The paper concludes by asking questions about the disappearance of identified social work positions in this field and how their previous roles are fulfilled.
The mourning after
- Author:
- PITT Vern
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.7.10, 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A specialist bereavement service in Hertfordshire helps people with learning disabilities deal with loss and trains social care staff on how best to support clients.
Valuing staff...valuing people: developing the learning disability workforce in North East London
- Author:
- NEWHAM NHS PRIMARY CARE TRUST
- Publisher:
- North East London NHS Strategic Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This workforce development strategy explains how to develop and support the workforce in learning disability services in Newham. In April 2001 a new learning disability awards framework was introduced within the existing qualification structures (including NVQs), to provide a recognised route to qualification and career progression for care workers in learning disability services.
Putting people at the heart of social work: lessons from the Named Social Worker Programme
- Authors:
- INNOVATION UNIT, SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- Innovation Unit, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide explores lessons for practice from the Named Social Worker (NSW) programme, which piloted new social work approaches to improve outcomes and experiences for people with learning disabilities and/or autism and for the people around them. Through the initiative, people were assigned a named social worker who could build a trusting relationship with them, advocate on their behalf and coordinate their care and support in a more holistic and person-centred way. The guide makes the case for ‘better social work practice’, drawing on the learning and emerging evidence from NSW programme sites; identifies common principles and enablers of ‘good social work’ and what this means for people with learning disabilities; It also provides advice on developing an evaluation approach that captures the qualitative and quantitative impact of different ways of working. The appendix includes tools and case studies from the pilot sites. (Edited publisher abstract)
Named Social Worker: programme evaluation - final report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, INNOVATION UNIT
- Publishers:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence, Innovation Unit
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 71
- Place of publication:
- London
Final evaluation of the Named Social Worker pilot, which looked at how having a named social work can contribute to people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs achieving better outcomes. Specifically it looked at how they and their family can be in control of decisions about their own future, and are supported to live with dignity and independence. This report presents learning from the second phase of the pilot, which ran from October 2017 to March 2018 and involved the six sites of Bradford, Halton, Hertfordshire, Liverpool, Sheffield and Shropshire. Three sites focused on transition cases while the other three worked with individuals who were from learning disability or Transforming Care cohorts. The report provides profiles of each of the pilot sites, defines the NSW approach and its impact. Each site tailored their own approach to reflect local needs, but the objectives for all the sites was to provide excellent person-centred support, equip social workers to be enablers of person-centred and asset-based care; build more effective and integrated systems that bring together health, care and community support and deliver efficiency savings. Key findings show that despite the short implementation period, sites were highly positive about their experience of the Named Social Work pilot. The evaluation evidence suggests that the NSW pilot had significant impact at three levels of impact: improving outcomes and experiences for individuals with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions and the people around them; changing social work practice, by enabling NSWs to develop their knowledge and skills and develop ‘good social work’ practice; and enabled pilot sites to trial new ideas for working and explore and tackle wider systemic conditions. The report makes recommendations for government, training and professional bodies; and recommendations for other sites looking to embed an NSW approach. (Edited publisher abstract)
Named Social Worker: summary of evaluation findings
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 17
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary evaluation findings from phase 2 of the Named Social Worker (NSW) programme evaluation. The Programme was initiated by the Health and Social Care to build an understanding of how a named social worker can help to improve outcomes for individuals with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions. The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the Innovation Unit, worked with the six Phase 2 sites to assess the impact of the pilot on the individuals engaged in the pilot, the named social workers and the wider system. Three sites focused on transition cases while the other three worked with individuals who were from learning disability or Transforming Care cohorts. Despite the short pilot timeframe, the evaluation evidence suggests that the NSW pilot had impact across three levels: on the individuals engaged in the pilot, on the named social workers themselves and on the wider system. A predictive financial return on investment (FROI) exercise also suggested that financial return on investment (ROI) of the NSW pilot was positive for all sites. (Edited publisher abstract)