Social Work

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

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

An invaluable guide for Practice Educators and Practice Supervisors undertaking learning and assessment to gain and maintain Stage 1 or 2 status under the Practice Educator Professional Standards for Social Work (2013) and for those involved in facilitating the learning, support, assessment and CPD of Practice Educators. 

You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate.

This new edition of a successful and well-established textbook has been reworked and updated to meet the needs of today’s student and practitioner, ensuring that they are fully prepared to meet the needs of diverse service user groups and demonstrate how they are meeting professional standards.

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.  

This exciting book challenges the dominant approaches to children and young people’s mental health, and provides straightforward practical strategies that can be used to address emotional upset, loss, and aid recovery.

Showcases the innovative and creative digital interventions which Health and Social Work educators, practitioners and students have used to respond to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

An easy to navigate introduction to the law relevant to social work and how it can be applied in practice. Contemporary, creative and student-focused, this is a must-have textbook for qualifying undergraduates, Social Work degree apprentices, and newly qualified social workers.

Developed specifically for the social work degree apprenticeship to guide apprentices through the unique requirements of this new qualifying route.

A practical exploration of what’s possible when caring for someone living with dementia, to help them live their best life in a way that makes sense to them.

A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten.