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Running out of choices
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.4.01, 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Providing supported housing for clients with mental health problems can be challenging. An outreach support worker talks to the author about the difficulties she faced when working with a client whose chaotic lifestyle made it difficult to maintain him in his assured tenancy.
Alcohol, drug and mental health problems: working with families
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, KEARNEY Patricia, LEVIN Enid, ROSEN Gwen
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a NISW research and development project looking at the interfaces within and between services for families where a parent has a persistent mental health, alcohol or drug problem. Services that have been set up to help the children and parents in such families are located in and administered by a number of different organisations. Effective collaboration, joint working across the many interfaces, and a focus on the family as a whole are essential if children and their parents are to receive appropriate help, advice and guidance.
Outcomes of interagency training to safeguard children: final report to the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health
- Authors:
- CARPENTER John, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 175p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This study assesses the scope and content of interdisciplinary training programmes commissioned by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB), and the participation in courses of professionals and others in contact with and/or working with children. It also aimed to investigate the context for training, specifically, how LSCBs carried out their responsibilities under the statutory guidance and the experiences of training coordinators and trainers. Individual chapters focus on different aspects of training, looking at: Safeguarding children and domestic abuse; Safeguarding disabled children; Parental mental illness and safeguarding children; Outcomes of interagency training for young people with harmful sexual behaviours; Safeguarding children of drug misusing parents; Female genital mutilation and safeguarding children. Each chapter begins with an overview of the literature and the importance of interagency working and training; and then provides provides a brief review of research, including methods used and results and outcomes. The conclusions highlight the policy and practice implications, looks at the cost effective implications and make suggestions for future research into interagency training for safeguarding children.
Emotional abuse: multi-agency practice guidance
- Authors:
- NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD, NOTTINGHAM CITY SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 30p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
According to the multi-agency practice guidance on emotional abuse produced by Nottinghamshire's Multi Agency Forum on Emotional Abuse, there are three main ways that the issue may come to the attention of professionals: Concerns about parental behaviour -Children's professionals may witness difficult parental behaviour towards a child, such as a child being persistently blamed for everything that goes wrong, persistent shouting and rejection; Concerns about parental attributes -Staff working in adult mental health, alcohol and drug addiction services may become concerned about how a parent is functioning and the impact this may have on their child; and Concerns about the child - professionals may be concerned about how a child is presenting - perhaps if they are unhappy, are bedwetting or poorly behaved - as this may be due to difficult relationships at home.
Homelessness charities frustrated by social services secrecy over clients
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.2.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at some of the findings from a research report by Shelter, which suggests joint working between housing and social services departments is proving difficult. Confusion over confidentiality rules and desire to protect clients' personal details has lead to reluctance of social services departments to share information despite the Homelessness Act 2002.
Mental health and criminal justice issues among perpetrators of elder abuse
- Authors:
- BROWNWELL Pat, BERMAN Jacquelin, SALAMONE Aurora
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 11(4), 1999, pp.81-94.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Recent studies on elder abuse suggest that the pathology or impairment of the abuser may be a stronger predictor of elder abuse than characteristics of the victim. To examine the relationship between elder abuse, abuser pathology, and the criminal justice system, the New York City Department for the Ageing (DFTA) undertook a survey of older victims of reported domestic abuse seeking assistance from the DFTA Elderly Crime Victims Resource Center. Preliminary findings from the survey indicate that impaired abusers were significantly younger than unimpaired abusers and more likely to live with their elderly victims, to be unemployed, and to have a history of involvement with the criminal justice system.
Homelessness and multiple special needs: a report of a seminar held at the Mental Health Foundation on Monday 17 June 1996
- Authors:
- HOMELESS NETWORK, et al
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a seminar on homeless people with multiple special needs, including mental health problems and drug and alcohol problems. The agenda for the seminar was: to map problems with and gaps in services; identify examples of good practice; develop an agenda for action; and consider how this could be carried forward and by whom.
Multi-agency working in criminal justice: control and care in contemporary correctional practice
- Editors:
- PYCROFT Aaron, GOUGH Dennis, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This textbook brings together the theory, policy and skills relevant to working in a multi-agency setting within the criminal justice system. It is published at a particularly relevant time as the professional qualifying arrangements for probation officers are changing and a “mixed economy” of correctional practice is emerging. Wide-ranging chapters provide in-depth reviews and important insights into multi-agency work in this environment and acknowledge the challenges and tensions inherent in recent developments. The authors outline the legislative and policy framework in the criminal justice system and evaluate professional and organisational conflicts within multi agency contexts. They also highlight key offender groups and issues associated with desistance from crime. The book is expected to be a valuable resource for academics and students and key reading for policy makers, managers and practitioners involved in or studying correctional work, through the Probation or Prison services, or other agencies.
Good practice briefing: multiple needs
- Author:
- HOMELESS LINK
- Publisher:
- Homeless Link
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This collection of articles aims at highlighting good practice in working with people who have alcohol, drug or mental health problems, or a combination of all three. It includes a definition of multiple needs, the future of services, supporting people with multiple needs in their tenancies, specialist provision. Project staff have spent time working with member agencies to identify innovation and broad lessons to be learned by all agencies working with this client group. In particular, the research report, based on a questionnaire we conducted with members, highlights where access to services is currently weak and the briefing shows what can be done by both statutory and voluntary agencies to support often very vulnerable individuals with multiple needs.
Crossover culture
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.5.03, 2003, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at three innovative projects where health and social care professionals have been working together. Features a project providing therapy for drug and alcohol misusers, a project on continence at a day centre for older people; and working with black and ethnic minority volunteers to tackle mental health problems in their communities.