Scottish Attachment in Action Conference, September 2010
Alan Sinclair was talking at the Scottish Attachment in Action conference held in Falkirk, September, 2010.
Scottish Attachment in Action Conference, September 2010
Alan Sinclair on the UK's attitude towards children at the Scottish Attachment in Action Conference, September 2010.
Scottish Attachment in Action Conference, September 2010
Edwina Grant on why Scottish Attachment in Action (SAIA) set up and when.
Scottish Attachment in Action Conference, September 2010
Edwina Grant, member of the Scottish Attachment in Action (SAIA) Executive Committee, reflects on the first SAIA conference, held in Falkirk, September 2010.
DotComUnity is a newly developed website that was launched nationally in February 2010. It aims to provide a one-stop online resource and directory of community services, care information and social interactivity for adults and children with a learning or physical disability within local communities throughout the UK.
As readers of this column will know, we enthusiastically believe that the web offers great potential for communication and learning, as well as for fun and leisure. But we also recognise legitimate concerns about the dangers, especially for children and vulnerable people.
cohorts, networks and systems
This evaluation explores the practitioner research initiative of Children 1st and the Glasgow School of Social Work which was aimed at supporting practitioners to develop and undertake their own small-scale research projects. The project sought to have an impact at three levels: individual, team, and organisation. The findings discuss the consequences, benefits and outcomes at all of these three levels.
This report describes the development of Key Capabilities in Child Care and Protection, which set out the knowledge and skills an emerging social worker should have in relation to children and their needs by the point of qualifying. The report looks at the two phases of the project:
The HandsOnScotland website describes itself as a toolkit of helpful responses to encourage children and young people's emotional well-being. It's designed to offer practical information and techniques to help people who work with children respond helpfully to troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental well-being.
Preserving and re-presenting social work history with new media
Research enquiry into the history of social work and social welfare is a vital and ongoing scholarly activity, underpinning our understanding of the past, and illuminating present day practice and policy. 'Memory institutions' like libraries and museums have a key role to play in preserving, and providing researchers with access to, original cultural heritage material
