Purpose Social work teams can provide a secure base for social workers, supporting them to
manage the emotional demands of child and family social work (Biggart et al., 2017). As the …

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough
to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service …

Purpose The paper aims to understand how the spread of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) influenced public employees' perception of smart working and how this …

Social work in the United Kingdom is preoccupied with what social workers cannot do due to
having limited time to spend with service users. Yet remarkably little research has examined …

The nature and quality of social work decision making have been highlighted in recent years
by a number of high-profile child deaths. Recognising and assessing child abuse is beset …

Agile working (flexibility about where and when practitioners do their work) is increasingly
common across public sector social work, but there has been little research about how …

Research shows that the physical environment, such as meeting rooms and offices, affects
prerequisites and outcomes in various forms of human services. This study focuses on the …

This essay focuses on the risk of solitude of smart workers, ie those people who perform
mobile, remotely and digitally intensive relations of work. Reduction in face-to-face …

This article addresses the challenges of sense making in social work practice and presents
a descriptive model of peer-aided judgement to facilitate critical debate and knowledge …

Challenges with the retention of social workers have increased over the past ten years with
links made to higher caseloads, increased stress, shrinking office space and hybridisation of …