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- Adult safeguarding managers' understandings of self‐neglect and hoarding
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- Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic
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- International Policy Responses and Early Management of Threats Posed by the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic to Social Care
- What motivates and discourages social workers from working as Approved Mental Health Professionals? Evidence about job resources and demands of the Approved Mental Health Professional role
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- An exploration of why health professionals seek to hold statutory powers in mental health services in England: considerations of the approved mental health professional role
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- What encourages care workers to continue working in intellectual disability services in England? Interview findings
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- Safeguarding and personal budgets: the experiences of adults at risk
- Social care managers and care workers’ understandings of personalisation in older people’s services
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- Workforce Diversity and Conflicts in Care Work: Managers' Perspectives
- Commentary on “workforce development: perspectives from people with learning disabilities”
- What legal powers do social workers need to protect adults with care and support needs?
- Gaining Access to Possibly Abused or Neglected Adults in England: Practice Perspectives from Social Workers and Service-User Representatives
- ‘We’re effectively becoming immigration officers’: social care managers’ experiences of the risk work of employing migrant care workers
- Social workers’ power of entry in adult safeguarding concerns: debates over autonomy, privacy and protection
- Safeguarding practice in England where access to an adult at risk is obstructed by a third party: findings from a survey
- Parliamentary arguments on powers of access – the Care Bill debates
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- The potential uses and abuses of a power of entry for social workers in England: a re-analysis of responses to a government consultation
- Frailty and Social Care: Over- or Under-Familiar Terms?
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- Do Personal Budgets Increase the Risk of Abuse? Evidence from English National Data
- Jobs First Evaluation - Helping people with learning disabilities to get paid jobs
- Implementing safeguarding and personalisation in social work: Findings from practice
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Models of Organising Adult Safeguarding
- Models of Adult Safeguarding in England: Findings from a Study of Costs and Referral Outcomes
- Models of safeguarding in England: Identifying important models and variables influencing the operation of adult safeguarding
- Commentary on “Assisting individuals ageing with learning disability: support worker perspectives”
- Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions
- Did anyone notice the transformation of adult social care? An analysis of Safeguarding Adult Board Annual Reports
- Investigating models of adult safeguarding in England – a mixed-methods approach
- Enhancing social networks: a qualitative study of health and social care practice in UK mental health services
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- Models of adult safeguarding in England: A review of the literature
- Educators or Researchers? Barriers and Facilitators to Undertaking Research among UK Social Work Academics
- Adult Safeguarding Policy and Law: A Thematic Chronology Relevant to Care Homes and Hospitals
- The ‘Making’ of Social Workers: Findings from Interviews with Managers of Newly Qualified Social Workers
- Organisational Factors, Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave Among Newly Qualified Social Workers in England
- Content and Purpose of Supervision in Social Work Practice in England: Views of Newly Qualified Social Workers, Managers and Directors
- Interactional perspectives on the mistreatment of older and vulnerable people in long-term care settings
- Defining the “perpetrator”: abuse, neglect and dignity in care
- Communication with Migrant Workers: The Perspectives of People Using Care Services in England
- User and Carer Experiences of International Social Care Workers in England: Listening to their Accounts of Choice and Control
- Migrants’ motivations to work in the care sector: experiences from England within the context of EU enlargement
- The impact of individual budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England
- Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care
- Promoting the mental well-being of older people from black and minority ethnic communities in United Kingdom rural areas: Findings from an interview study
- Older people's experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidence from the English Individual Budget pilot projects
- The experiences of migrant social work and social care practitioners in the UK: findings from an online survey
- Personalisation through Individual Budgets: Does It Work and for Whom?
- International social workers in England: Factors influencing supply and demand
- The Social Work Bursary in England: Impact of Funding Arrangements upon Social Work Education and the Future Workforce
- The personalization of care services and the early impact on staff activity patterns
- Implementing Consumer Choice in Long-term Care: The Impact of Individual Budgets on Social Care Providers in England
- Experiences of racism and discrimination among migrant care workers in England: Findings from a mixed-methods research project
- What Drives the Recruitment of Migrant Workers to Work in Social Care in England?
- Making the Transition: Comparing Research on Newly Qualified Social Workers with Other Professions
- Joining Up Government by Integrating Funding Streams? The Experiences of the Individual Budget Pilot Projects for Older and Disabled People in England
- Using Vignettes to Evaluate the Outcomes of Student Learning: Data From the Evaluation of the New Social Work Degree in England
- Exploring the potential of refugees and asylum seekers for social care work in England: a qualitative study
- Change and Continuity: A Quantitative Investigation of Trends and Characteristics of International Social Workers in England
- Assessing the Role of Increasing Choice in English Social Care Services
- Black and minority ethnic older people and mental well‐being: possibilities for practice
- Helping others or a rewarding career? Investigating student motivations to train as social workers in England
- Changes in Admissions Work Arising from the New Social Work Degree in England
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- Social care as first work experience in England: a secondary analysis of the profile of a national sample of migrant workers
- Individual budgets and adult safeguarding: Parallel or converging tracks? Further findings from the evaluation of the Individual Budget pilots
- Applications to Social Work Programmes in England: Students as Consumers?
- Social care stakeholders' perceptions of the recruitment of international practitioners in the United Kingdom—a qualitative study
- Better evidence for better commissioning: a study of the evidence base of generic social care commissioning guides in the UK
- A degree of success? Messages from the new social work degree in England for nurse education
- Gearing Up for Personalisation: Training Activities Commissioned in the English Pilot Individual Budgets Sites 2006–2008
- Support workers in social care in England: a scoping study
- Materials characterisation and cytotoxic assessment of strontium-substituted bioactive glasses for bone regeneration
- Developing world class commissioning competencies in care services in England: the role of the service improvement agency
- Banned from working in social care: a secondary analysis of staff characteristics and reasons for their referrals to the POVA list in England and Wales
- Articulating the Improvement of Care Standards: The Operation of a Barring and Vetting Scheme in Social Care
- Increasing Care Options in the Countryside: Developing an Understanding of the Potential Impact of Personalization for Social Work with Rural Older People
- Accusations of misconduct among staff working with vulnerable adults in England and Wales: their claims of mitigation to the barring authority
- 'My Expectations Remain the Same. The Student Has to Be Competent to Practise': Practice Assessor Perspectives on the New Social Work Degree Qualification in England
- What (a) Difference a Degree Makes: The Evaluation of the New Social Work Degree in England
- Workload Management in Social Work Services: What, Why and How?
- Making Decisions about Who Should Be Barred from Working with Adults in Vulnerable Situations: The Need for Social Work Understanding
- People in Places: A Qualitative Exploration of Recruitment Agencies' Perspectives on the Employment of International Social Workers in the UK
- Weighing the evidence: a case for using vignettes to elicit public and practitioner views of the workings of the POVA vetting and barring scheme
- Safeguarding and System Change: Early Perceptions of the Implications for Adult Protection Services of the English Individual Budgets Pilots--A Qualitative Study
- Training for Change: Early Days of Individual Budgets and the Implications for Social Work and Care Management Practice: A Qualitative Study of the Views of Trainers
- Barring ‘inappropriate people’? The operation of a barring list of social care workers: an analysis of the first referrals to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list
- Individual Budgets: On the Launch Pad
- Decision and debate: addressing the implications of the POVA banning list
- Moral Positioning: Service User Experiences of Challenging Behaviour in Learning Disability Services
- Identifying the Extent of Challenging Behaviour in Adult Learning Disability Services