Our key partners include: ADASS WM, WM Social Work Teaching Partnership, SCIE, Research in Practice and Skills for Care.
Social care services have been defined by the National Institute for Health Research as the provision of personal and practical care and support that people may need because of their age, illness, cognition, disability or other circumstances. It also includes support for family members or other unpaid carers. Important aims are to help people remain independent, retain their dignity and achieve a better quality of life. Another important aim is to safeguard vulnerable individuals from abuse and neglect.
Care and support are provided in a number of settings: in residential and nursing homes, in people’s own homes (domiciliary or ‘home’ care) and in other community settings such as day centres. There are also various accommodation settings, such as sheltered housing, extra-care housing, supported living and Shared Lives schemes. Social workers and other staff carry out assessments, provide information and coordinate activities to back up this service provision.
Long Term:
University of Birmingham
Increasing understanding about the motivations and role of people with lived personal experience of health and social care who get involved with shaping health and care systems.
To review what good leadership looks like in social work and the realities of leading within this professional context.
Reviewing different models and approaches taken by local authorities to embed strengths-based practice to better understand how they can approach such transformation and increase the likelihood of sustainable implementation.