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1 week ago | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides advice and tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on working with and supporting parents with learning disabilities. Updated in March 2025, the guide is written by Beth Tarleton and Danielle Turney and looks at how to identify and assess parents with learning disabilities, as well as supporting them to learn new skills. Inform Adults subscribers can access the guide here and Inform Children subscribers can access the guide here.
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1 month ago | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on advance decisions and advance statements. Written by Sam Cox, an independent consultant on the Mental Capacity Act, the guide covers how to make an advance statement, advice on healthcare and what an advance decision cannot do. Inform Adults subscribers can access the full content here.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on using trauma-informed approaches to work with adults. Written by systemic psychotherapist Lydia Guthrie, the in-depth guide covers the different types of trauma and the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural effects they can have. It also looks at the key principles behind a trauma-informed approach and how to put them into practice. Inform Adults subscribers can access the full content here.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford |Inform Children
This article provides advice and tips from Community Care Inform’s guide for practice educators on reflection. Written by Siobhan Maclean, the in-depth guide covers the ‘What? Why? How?’ framework and how it can be used in social work and practice education. It looks at how to use different models of reflection with students, to improve their reflective skills, and outlines ways to help students with reflective writing.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour. Written by Kate Butterby, a post-doctoral research associate at Durham University, the full guide is designed to help social workers support people who may be experiencing coercive and controlling behaviours. It outlines some of the ways perpetrators limit a victim’s space for action and explains the effects that coercive control can have on children.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on protecting adults from scams. The full guide is designed to help social workers support people who are at risk of, or experiencing, scams, working in partnership with local trading standards colleagues. It explains the different types of scams, the factors that put people at risk and the impact of scams on health and wellbeing. Inform Adults subscribers can access the full content here.
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May 16, 2024 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article comprises tips taken from a Community Care Inform guide about working with Gypsy and Traveller communities. The full guide is directed primarily at children’s services practitioners but many of the key messages and principles are relevant to adults’ social workers too. The guide is written and updated by Friends, Families and Travellers, a national charity that works on behalf of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. Subscribers can access the full content on Inform Adults and Inform Children.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on assistive technology and dementia. The full guide explores key concepts and terms and categories of assistive technology, and discusses some potential uses. The aim of the guide is to enable practitioners to adopt a values- and evidence-based and enabling approach that takes account of the potential benefits, as well as the potential limitations, of assistive technology for people with dementia.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on working with adults who are deafblind. The full guide gives an awareness and understanding of the complexities of deafblindness, and the social care law and policy that relates to deafblind people. It also provides guidance on the areas to pay particular attention to during an assessment. Inform Adults subscribers can access the full content here.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford
With significant and growing workload pressures, it can be difficult for practitioners to find time to engage with learning and development. To support you in your daily practice, Community Care Inform is introducing new bite-sized content that delivers key information in small, easily digestible chunks. The first set of infographics focuses on the essential aspects of social work in relation to domestic abuse. They present concise advice taken from Community Care Inform’s practice guides.
