Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

The level of expectation and ambition for the children’s social care review , led by Josh MacAlister, is sky high, ahead of its imminent publication. The review has taken place against the backdrop of fierce and ongoing restraint on resources for children’s social care services. Moving beyond generic social work.

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Reimagining Social Work

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Hence the argument for abolition of this form of ‘family policing’. In her key-note presentation to this conference Roberts talked about the importance of non-reformist reforms : systemic changes that shrink rather than extend the reach of the state apparatus. We know that this process has not worked well in the distant or recent past.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The joint committee on the draft Mental Health Bill was appointed in July 2022 to consider the government’s draft bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) , which is summarised here. It recommended that the draft bill should not be the end of the process of law reform.

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