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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria.

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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19.

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Promoting DEI in Healthcare

Relias

Clinical Effectiveness Consultant at Relias, and Celeste Duke, SPHR, Managing Content Specialist at BLR, discussed diversity and inclusion strategies to improve both health outcomes and staff retention. How you conduct interviews also has a big impact. Many people prefer in-person interviews so they can assess visual cues.