Setting the Bar: towards an indicative maximum caseload for Scotland’s public sector social workers
Social Work Scotland Briefing: 1 June 2022 Workforce and workforce planning Over the last few years, Social Work Scotland’s members …
Chief Social Work Officer Survey: 2021
The findings from this year’s Chief Social Work Office survey fall at an interesting time in the broader landscape; as …
Integrated health and social care in prisons: Tests of change: workstream findings and recommendations
This report results from more than 2 years of intensive exploration of the rationale for and the challenges of delivering …
Social Work leadership during COVID-19: March – November 2020
Introduction to the reports The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed health and social care to the forefront of our collective awareness …
Justice Social Work Routemap
The Scottish Government released the COVID-19 Routemap at the end of May 2020. The Routemap sets out four phases between lockdown and the resumption of life …
Safe and Together Scoping Report
The Scottish Parliament passed ground-breaking legislation in April 2019, recognising coercive control as a domestic abuse offence. At the same time …
Social Work Scotland Annual Conference Report 2019
Delegate survey Thank you for coming to our annual conference! Your views matter to us, so please take a minute …
A New Vision for Social Care in Prisons
A New Vision of Social Care in Prisons by S Levy, F Kumari Campbell, L Kelly and F Fernandes (University …
Community: A radical current?
The idea of universal, community-based service was key to the vision of social work that informed the 1968 Social Work …
Exploring the changing nature of adoption work
This paper charts changes in the social work role in adoption in Scotland since 1968. Although the Actwas not intended …
