Fact files

Our fact files are designed to be introductory guides to various aspects social work and the challenges involved with the profession. The guides are specifically aimed at news journalists, to provide straightforward facts about social work and to explain the issues regularly faced by social workers. 

Fact file guides for the media

• Guide to social work with children at risk 
• Guide to social work with children in care 
• Guide to social work with older people 
• Guide to social work with disabled people 
• Guide to social work in mental health 

Guide to social work with children at risk

• Child protection - the facts 
• How does child protection work? 
• The legal framework 
• Child protection - stage by stage 
• The Munro review 
• Elimination of risk - and impossible ideal 
• Social work with children - jargon buster 

Guide to social work with children in care

• Social work with children in care - the facts 
• Children in care - an introduction 
• Fostering 
• Residential care 
• Adoption 
• Education and children in care 
• Good practice 
• Children in care - jargon buster 

Guide to social work with older people

• Older people - the facts 
• Social care for adults  
• Social care for older people 
• Social workers are more than gatekeepers 
• Adult safeguarding 
• The Mental Capacity Act 
• The challenge of dementia 
• Social work with older people - jargon buster 

Guide to social work with disabled people

• Social work with disabled people - the facts 
• What is disability? 
• What does the legislation say? 
• Current policy 
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults 
• Social work with disabled people - jargon buster 

Guide to social work in mental health

• Social work in mental health - the facts 
• Social workers and mental health 
• Different sorts of mental health disorders 
• Mental health specialities 
• The legal framework - The Mental Health Act 
• The legal framework - The Mental Capacity Act 
• Mind the Bournewood Gap 
• Social work in mental health - jargon buster