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Practice guidance

Author: Community Care Inform

Updated Date: 9 January 2020

Publication Date: 26 September 2016

Introduction

Inform Adults has a wealth of guidance across a wide range of topics to help social workers, OTs and other social care practitioners come up with solutions to challenges, deepen their knowledge and reflect on their practice. The guides listed below provide just a flavour of what we have to offer. If you do not find what you are looking for, try our knowledge and practice hubs directory for our full range of content on particular topics, or our learning zone for training materials and learning tools.

Assessment and support planning

Guide to conducting effective assessments with adults

Financial assessments under the Care Act 2014

Guide to care and support planning

Guide to self-directed support and personal budgets

Guide to working with independent advocates

Mental capacity and best interests

Case law and the process of assessing mental capacity

Fluctuating capacity and the law: quick guide

Case law in relation to making best interests decisions

Case study: a practical analysis of a mental capacity assessment

Advance decisions and advance statements: quick guide

Deprivation of liberty

The Liberty Protection Safeguards: quick guide

Guidance on completing DoLS assessments

Guide to report writing for best interests assessors

Deprivation of liberty in hospital settings: quick guide

Quick guide to dementia and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Safeguarding

The inherent jurisdiction of the High Court and vulnerable adults

Making safeguarding personal in practice

Forced marriage of adults with learning disabilities

Protecting adults from scams

Complex needs

Working with adults who hoard

Working with adults who self-neglect

Using attachment theory to work with adults

Adults with learning disabilities and dementia

Working with adults affected by modern slavery

Disability

How personal health budgets work

Continuing healthcare: a system overview

Domestic abuse and disability: quick guide

Guide to working with adults who are d/Deaf

Guide to co-production in mental health and social care

Older people

Safeguarding adults with dementia

Dementia and mental health comorbidities

Guide to using narratives in assessments of older people

Guide to end-of-life-care

Domestic abuse between older couples

Mental health

The interface between the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act

Guide to the role of the approved mental health professional

The role of forensic social work

The nearest relative’s roles and responsibilities: quick guide

Domestic abuse

Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health

Quick guide to domestic abuse

How to identify signs of coercive and controlling behaviour: quick guide

Working with perpetrators

Practice support

Using professional judgment and decision making in adult safeguarding

Introduction to supervision

Reflection: a guide for practice educators

Management

Quality assuring social work in adult social care

Promoting critical thinking and reflection in supervision

Equality and diversity

Guide to domestic abuse within same-sex relationships

Quick guide to dementia and adults from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

Social work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older people

Add item to CPD Log (SWE)

Title *
Practice guidance

Date *
16-11-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/practice-guidance-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning

Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. The form below replicates that used by Social Work England in your online account, so that when you need to renew your registration each year, you can easily transfer examples of CPD. Everything you write will be stored in your My CPD log on CC Inform. You can return to each piece of CPD and edit or add to it at any time - for example, if you reflect on it with a peer. You can export all the information as a Word file and copy it into Social Work England's form for the pieces you choose to submit during renewal, and print it off for other uses - for example, in supervision or peer reflection.

1. Describe what you have learnt from doing this CPD activity. (Social Work England recommend that you write 250-500 words, and they say that you may want to refer to the CPD standard 4.1-4.8 - see below.)

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2. Reflect on and describe the positive impact the CPD has had (or will have) on your practice and the people you work with.

This could be people with lived experience of social work, colleagues, or students. If you are not currently working, or not in direct practice, you could think about how your CPD activity might benefit people you come into contact with or the profession as a whole. (Social Work England recommend you write about 250 to 500 words).

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3. Describe what you have learnt from discussing this CPD activity with a peer

This is an optional question. By answering it for at least one of your pieces of CPD, you will meet Social Work England's requirements to record one piece of CPD with a peer reflection during the registration year. You are expected to write at least 250 words.

Social Work England say: "Peer reflection means that you have discussed the content of your CPD activity with a peer, your manager or another professional.

This discussion can be informal or formal, and can take place in one to one or group settings. The role of the peer is not to approve your learning but to support and help you to think about how you can improve your practice. When discussing your CPD with a peer, you should talk about what you have learnt from doing the CPD and the positive impact the CPD activity has had (or will have) on your role, practice and the people you work with".

Read more guidance from the regulator about peer reflection here

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4. Which parts of the CPD standard have you met by doing this activity? By going through the recording process, you will automatically meet standards 4.6 and 4.7. You can use the box below to note the other standards you have met with this piece.

4.1 Incorporate feedback from a range of sources, including from people with lived experience of my social work practice.
4.2 Use supervision and feedback to critically reflect on, and identify my learning needs, including how I use research and evidence to inform my practice.
4.3 Keep my practice up to date and record how I use research, theories and frameworks to inform my practice and my professional judgement.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.5 Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice.
4.6 Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice.
4.7 Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.

For more information, see Social Work England’s guidance on CPD.

Add item to CPD Log (SCW)

Title * Practice guidance

Date * 16-11-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/practice-guidance-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account and you can export all the information as a Word file or print it off. When you have to renew your social work registration with Social Care Wales, you can include this as evidence of continuing professional development.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How has it contributed to your practice?

3. How much time have you spent on this activity?

4. Next steps (any additional learning you need in this area)?

For more details, visit Social Care Wales

Citation

Full Harvard reference for this document:

() Practice guidance. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/practice-guidance-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 16 November 2024]

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In the text: Baim argues that "understanding adult attachment patterns can also help practitioners to more readily identify the behaviour patterns that the client uses to maintain safety and comfort and which also, in some cases, serve to keep the client stuck in behaviour that no longer serves them as adults". (Baim, 2015)

Full reference to insert at the bottom of the document: Baim, C. (2015) Using attachment theory to work with adults, Guide. Community Care Inform Adults [online]. Available at: https://adults.ccinform.co.uk/guides/guide-using-attachment-theory-work-adults/ [accessed: INSERT DATE HERE (eg 9 October 2015)]