47.Contextual safeguarding

Professor Christa Fouche discusses creative ways to help social work research to have an impact on practice in a special episode recorded live at an international conference.

James Caiels discusses his scoping review of strengths-based approaches in social work and social care.

Dr Bernadette Moorhead discusses her study of social work professional identity in the early post-qualification period

Professor Carlene Firmin discusses the implementation of contextual safeguarding in five local authority areas: what works well, and where more work is needed.

Dr Ciarán Murphy explores how social worker discretion can contribute to creating a 'child-centred' child protection system.

Professor Helen Fisher discusses the impact of experiencing violence during adolescence on mental health at the transition to adulthood.

Ludmila Fleitas-Alfonzo and Tania King discuss their systematic review of papers reporting the association between mental health and caring in young people.

Liz Beddoe and Lisa Warwick discuss the importance of relationship-based supervision for the retention of experienced practitioners in social work.

Emma Reith-Hall and Paul Montgomery discuss their systematic review of the teaching and learning of communication skills in social work.

Professor Brett Smith discusses the Moving Social Work Project which is co-producing training and resources for social workers to support people with a disability to be more physically active.