This book will help social workers gain a comprehensive understanding of how to achieve best practice in applying the Care Act 2014.

New edition of best-selling book which helps social workers gain a comprehensive understanding of how to achieve best practice in applying the Care Act 2014.

This is textbook has been developed specifically for the purposes of the social work degree apprenticeship, guiding apprentices through the unique requirements of this new qualifying route.

This book captures the unique moment in time created by the Covid 19 pandemic and uses this as a lens to explore contemporary issues for social work education and practice.  

Key extracts from Understanding Substance Use: Policy and Practice with an emphasis on social policy.

An up-to-date guide to the effective use of social media in social work education

Supports both primary and secondary trainees and teachers with understanding the links between social media use and children and young people’s mental health. 

A practical guide to a range of key contemporary issues in primary schools, with summaries of legislation and policy, and workable strategies to embed them in the classroom.

A practice-based perspective on working with people who self-neglect.

A practical intervention framework and guide in Risks & Strengths Assessment in self-neglect for support staff who are working with adults who self-neglect or may be at risk of self-neglecting in the future.

An essential adult safeguarding practice multi-agency framework under the Care Act 2014.

39 reflections to improve your decision making in the classroom and beyond.

This book follows on from David Gumbrell’s text LIFT!, arguing that when you are feeling more resilient you have the courage and confidence to take more risks. You can also calculate that risk more rationally, thereby making it less risky and more likely to result in success.