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Author: Community Care Inform

Updated Date: 2 September 2024

Publication Date: 5 January 2017

Introduction

The majority of Community Care Inform content is underpinned by research, which you will see cited in the text and reference lists. (The exceptions to this are resources that are solely summarising the law, or are dedicated to sharing somebody’s lived experience).

Research, including individual studies and meta-analyses from the UK and globally where appropriate, encompasses academic journal articles and findings disseminated via books and conference papers; and reports, investigations and analyses by recognised bodies. Research of all types may incorporate the perspectives of people with lived experience. Links to the research cited are provided in the reference list at the end of each resource, to a full-text version where possible.

This page highlights a selection of some of our most research-focused content, including reviews that provide messages from key research on the impact of different forms of harm, practice guides that draw on and translate messages from research, and webinars and podcasts that discuss research findings. Use the search box above or the knowledge and practice hubs to find further research-based resources or look for different topics. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, do let us know.

Trauma

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)

ADHD or trauma: working with the potential for misdiagnosis

Attachment-based trauma and parenting

Direct work

Applying trauma-informed practice in direct work

Multimedia learning

Webinar: communicating with children – support children’s emotional literacy and feel more confident about direct work

Looked-after and adopted children

Foster care matching: lessons from research

Adoption: children’s views and experiences – what studies tell us

Multimedia learning

Webinar: life story work – methods, management and best practice

Working with teenagers in the care system

Multimedia learning

Podcast: looked-after children and self-harm

Child development

Child development practice support tool

Issues facing parents

Parental substance misuse: working with children, parents and carers

Parental mental illness

Domestic abuse: lessons from research

Domestic abuse: the impact on children and young people

Problem gambling in adults

Neglect

Neglect: lessons from research

Impact of prenatal neglect (follow the links in the guide for information on the impact of neglect on all ages up to adolescence)

Multimedia learning

Podcast: neglect, poverty and affluence

Child sexual abuse

The impacts of child sexual abuse: messages from research

Safeguarding Black girls from CSA

Child sexual exploitation

The impacts of child sexual exploitation: messages from research

Effective interventions for CSE

Young people’s perspectives on professional support for child sexual exploitation

Adolescents and extra-familial harm

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

Radicalisation and social work

Safeguarding adolescents: a needs-led approach

Other safeguarding topics

Safeguarding disabled children

Pre-birth risk assessments

How to use professional curiosity to understand social and emotional responses

Parenting assessments

Multimedia learning

Webinar: child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse

Multimedia learning

Podcast: social work and FGM – anti-oppressive practice in action

Other research areas

Guide to shame and recognising how it may present in children (and adults)

Gender and sexuality: ensuring social work meets LGBTQ+ people’s needs

Addressing loneliness and social isolation: lessons from research

Add item to CPD Log (SWE)

Title *
Research content

Date *
21-12-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/research-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning

Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. The form below replicates that used by Social Work England in your online account, so that when you need to renew your registration each year, you can easily transfer examples of CPD. Everything you write will be stored in your My CPD log on CC Inform. You can return to each piece of CPD and edit or add to it at any time - for example, if you reflect on it with a peer. You can export all the information as a Word file and copy it into Social Work England's form for the pieces you choose to submit during renewal, and print it off for other uses - for example, in supervision or peer reflection.

1. Describe what you have learnt from doing this CPD activity. (Social Work England recommend that you write 250-500 words, and they say that you may want to refer to the CPD standard 4.1-4.8 - see below.)

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2. Reflect on and describe the positive impact the CPD has had (or will have) on your practice and the people you work with.

This could be people with lived experience of social work, colleagues, or students. If you are not currently working, or not in direct practice, you could think about how your CPD activity might benefit people you come into contact with or the profession as a whole. (Social Work England recommend you write about 250 to 500 words).

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3. Describe what you have learnt from discussing this CPD activity with a peer

This is an optional question. By answering it for at least one of your pieces of CPD, you will meet Social Work England's requirements to record one piece of CPD with a peer reflection during the registration year. You are expected to write at least 250 words.

Social Work England say: "Peer reflection means that you have discussed the content of your CPD activity with a peer, your manager or another professional.

This discussion can be informal or formal, and can take place in one to one or group settings. The role of the peer is not to approve your learning but to support and help you to think about how you can improve your practice. When discussing your CPD with a peer, you should talk about what you have learnt from doing the CPD and the positive impact the CPD activity has had (or will have) on your role, practice and the people you work with".

Read more guidance from the regulator about peer reflection here

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4. Which parts of the CPD standard have you met by doing this activity? By going through the recording process, you will automatically meet standards 4.6 and 4.7. You can use the box below to note the other standards you have met with this piece.

4.1 Incorporate feedback from a range of sources, including from people with lived experience of my social work practice.
4.2 Use supervision and feedback to critically reflect on, and identify my learning needs, including how I use research and evidence to inform my practice.
4.3 Keep my practice up to date and record how I use research, theories and frameworks to inform my practice and my professional judgement.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.5 Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice.
4.6 Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice.
4.7 Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.

For more information, see Social Work England’s guidance on CPD.

Add item to CPD Log (SCW)

Title * Research content

Date * 21-12-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/research-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account and you can export all the information as a Word file or print it off. When you have to renew your social work registration with Social Care Wales, you can include this as evidence of continuing professional development.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How has it contributed to your practice?

3. How much time have you spent on this activity?

4. Next steps (any additional learning you need in this area)?

For more details, visit Social Care Wales

Citation

Full Harvard reference for this document:

() Research content. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/research-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 21 December 2024]

If you are directly quoting the author's own words from this document you must acknowledge that they are not your own words by putting them within quotes marks, reference the source in the text and then provide the full reference at the end of the document. For example:

In the text: Brackenbridge argues that "[t]he interpersonal dynamics of sexual abuse in sport are similar to those in other settings but exacerbated by some key situational differences" (Brackenbridge, 2008).

Full reference to insert at the bottom of the document: Brackenbridge, C. (2008) Child Protection in Sport. Guide. Community Care Inform Children [online]. Available at: https://www.ccinform.co.uk/articles/2008/02/22/1973/Child+protection+in+sport.html [accessed: INSERT DATE HERE (eg 25 November 2015)]