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NEW: The executive functioning and mental capacity learning hub

Six expert guides to improve your knowledge of the brain and cognition, helping you to support people with executive dysfunction

Knowledge and practice hubs

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    Child sexual exploitation (CSE) knowledge and practice hub

  • Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub

  • circles of people holding hands, different colours and rainbow representing diversity, intersections

    Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) knowledge and practice hub

Practice guidance

  • Challenges and opportunities for migrant social workers from Hong Kong

  • Chinese red flag with one large gold star surrounded by four smaller gold stars in left-hand corner

    China culture and customs: quick guide

  • Social worker meeting with mother and young boy who is sitting in his mum's lap

    Child and family assessment: completed example

Research

  • Parental substance misuse: working with children, parents and carers

  • Trauma-informed practice with young people affected by extra-familial harm

  • sadparentandchild

    Parental mental illness

Case law

  • Circumcision, parental responsibility, cultural identity and the welfare of the child: G [2024] EWHC 2363 (Fam)

  • The word's 'Employer's Liability' typed and revealed by torn paper

    Local authority liability for kinship care foster carers: DJ v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 841

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    Care orders and local authorities consenting to a deprivation of liberty: Re J [2024] EWHC 1690 (Fam)

Podcasts

  • Back view of family at beach - contact

    The emotional impact of ‘contact’ – Ethan’s experience: podcast episode

  • Wall collage at Jasmine Mother's Recovery Centre featuring pictures of women, children, the word 'freedom', 'we accept the love we think we deserve'

    Mothers’ lived experiences of domestic abuse and social work: podcast

  • stylised drawing of women and girls representing different ethnicities and diversity

    Social work and FGM: anti-oppressive practice in action (podcast episode)

Legislation

  • Two teenage girls talking, sitting on a bed

    Quick guide to the Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023

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    Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022

  • children's jigsaw puzzle pieces

    Children Act 1989

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