Delivery Programme
2019-2020 Overview
The Delivery Programme details our annual calendar of learning resources and events. The programme is informed by consultation with our Partnership network. This year the programme has four key topics:
- Leadership
- Safeguarding
- Exploitation
- Housing and homelessness
In addition to the four key topics, there will be resources to support practice in relation to strengths-based working, working in prisons and inclusive practice with people who are autistic.
Tailored Support services also form part of the Delivery Programme for Research in Practice for Adults Partners.
*All Tailored Support for 2019-20 MUST be booked and confirmed by 14 December 2019.
Activity by month
March
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March |
Joint working between social care and housing: Research and Policy Update 144 March 2019 |
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7 March |
Birmingham |
Social care, housing and homelessness: Partnership Conference This year’s Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA) annual Partnership Conference will examine social care, housing and homelessness. It will explore:
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19 March |
Online |
Critically Reflective Practice: Making sense of uncertainty Engaging in reflective practice can enable us to develop confidence and resilience, as well as improving the work we do. |
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26 March |
Bristol |
Trauma-informed approaches in adult social care Adults being supported by mental health services often present complex behaviour patterns that have their roots in trauma and corresponding survival mechanisms. This workshop will investigate trauma-informed approaches, assist practitioners in developing different ways of supporting people, and will help individuals to understand and reframe their response to situational or relational triggers. Aimed at: Practitioners and managers. |
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28 March |
Birmingham |
Commissioning transitional mental health services that meet the needs of young people Young people experiencing mental health issues can find transition to adulthood challenging. Reasons for this include:
This Knowledge Exchange Workshop will consider how we can develop creative, innovative and co-produced services that better support young people experiencing mental health issues during their transition to adulthood. |
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Partnership Conference: Network Event
Webinar: Pre-recorded Webinar
Research Messages Workshop: Learning Event
April
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Working with loneliness: Research and Policy Update 145 April 2019 |
 Research and Policy Update: Learning Resource |
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2 April |
Online |
Embedding human rights across social care Providing practical examples of what rights based working can look like in practice, this Webinar aims to build the confidence of practitioners in meeting the requirements of a range of rights based legislation. It will also draw the links between rights and strengths based approaches. |
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3 April |
Birmingham |
Restorative practice enables all parties affected by a particular incident to play a role in repairing harm and find positive solutions. Sitting within the broad concept of strength-based working (see the recently published strengths-based practice framework) the approach empowers adults to make decisions about their lives based on their needs. This focused Knowledge Exchange Workshop will take an in-depth look at the evidence, practice and implementation of restorative practice in adult social care settings. The workshop is led by Rachel Quine, an accredited Restorative Practitioner and trainer at the Royal Borough of Greenwich – and Tricia Pereira, who is Co-Chair of the National Adult Principal Social Workers Network and co-author of the Practice handbook which accompanies the strengths-based practice framework. Aimed at: Practitioners and managers. |
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4 April |
Manchester |
Commissioning transitional mental health services that meet the needs of young people Young people experiencing mental health issues can find transition to adulthood challenging. Reasons for this include:
This Knowledge Exchange Workshop will consider how we can develop creative, innovative and co-produced services that better support young people experiencing mental health issues during their transition to adulthood. |
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Knowledge Exchange Workshop: Learning Event
May
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May |
What makes safeguarding work well?: Research and Policy Update 146 May 2019 |
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14 May |
Online |
Working effectively with people who use alcohol and other drugs harmfully Providing an overview of harmful drug and alcohol use and drawing on strengths based approaches, this Webinar provides practical examples of how practitioners can work positively with people affected by addiction. It aims to build the confidence of practitioners in meeting the needs of people with addiction and their families. |
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15 May |
NCVO, London |
Transitional safeguarding The complexities of safeguarding children and adults have been challenging practice. Issues of violent crime, gang activity, domestic abuse, modern slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation require local areas to adapt and innovate safeguarding practice with adolescents and young adults. Bringing together emerging research with examples of innovative local practice, this joint Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults workshop will provide the opportunity to explore transitional safeguarding, and will support participants to reflect on practice and leadership within this area. Delegates are asked to attend in pairs from their local area, with one strategic level participant from Adult Services and the other from Children’s Services. Designed for: Those who are responsible for developing and leading safeguarding practice in Adult and Children’s Services. This might include Principal Social Workers, Assistant Directors or others with responsibility for practice and service development. |
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20 May |
Online |
Working effectively with people living with dementia and their families Providing an overview of dementia and drawing on strengths based approaches, this series of clips provide practical examples of how practitioners can work positively with people affected by dementia. They aim to build the confidence of practitioners in meeting the needs of people with dementia and their families. |
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21 May |
NCVO, London |
Understanding and responding to the exploitation of adults Exploitation of adults is an area of developing practice. As we begin to learn more about the needs of adults who experience exploitation, this workshop will provide delegates the opportunity to explore this area of practice, build skills in understanding the experience of exploitation and gain useful responses. Designed for: People working in practice. |
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Research Messages Workshop: Learning Event
June
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June |
Working with modern slavery: Research and Policy Update 147 June 2019 |
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June |
Financial exploitation (or financial abuse) can take the form of fraud, theft or taking and using property without permission. This Brief Guide aims to provide accessible and clear information to support adults who may be at risk or a victim of financial exploitation, including an overview of the role and responsibilities of social care services. Designed for: People with lived experience, social workers, support workers and team managers in direct practice with adults. |
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June |
Housing, wellbeing and adult social care |
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June |
Understanding and responding to the exploitation of adults Exploitation of adults is not a widely understood area of working with adults. There are a number of different types of exploitation, which have commonalities. This briefing aims to explore the commonalities, and the differences, of different types of exploitation to support a systems-wide approach to both preventing and responding to exploitation. Aimed at: Leaders working in adult social care. |
 Leaders’ Briefing: Publication |
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3 June |
Online |
Loss can have an impact on social care practitioners, in terms of their own personal lives, and in their professional work with adults dealing with loss. |
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6 June |
Colmore Gate, Birmingham |
Understanding and responding to the exploitation of adults Exploitation of adults is an area of developing practice. As we begin to learn more about the needs of adults who experience exploitation, this workshop will provide delegates the opportunity to explore this area of practice, build skills in understanding the experience of exploitation and gain useful responses. Designed for: People working in practice. |
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17 June |
Online |
Supporting with people with learning disabilities to have positive sexual relationships Adults with learning disabilities often describe feeling lonely and aspire to have intimate relationships with others. This Webinar focuses on the ways in which practitioners can work with people with learning disabilities to enable them to fulfil their wishes to develop relationships. |
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19 June |
The Studio, Manchester |
Understanding and responding to the exploitation of adults Exploitation of adults is an area of developing practice. As we begin to learn more about the needs of adults who experience exploitation, this workshop will provide delegates the opportunity to explore this area of practice, build skills in understanding the experience of exploitation and gain useful responses. Designed for: People working in practice. |
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Brief Guide: Publication
July
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July |
The role of advocacy: Research and Policy Update 148 July 2019 |
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2 July |
Colmore Gate, Birmingham |
Transitional safeguarding The complexities of safeguarding children and adults have been challenging practice. Issues of violent crime, gang activity, domestic abuse, modern slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation require local areas to adapt and innovate safeguarding practice with adolescents and young adults. Bringing together emerging research with examples of innovative local practice, this joint Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults workshop will provide the opportunity to explore transitional safeguarding, and will support participants to reflect on practice and leadership within this area. Delegates are asked to attend in pairs from their local area, with one strategic level participant from Adult Services and the other from Children’s Services. Designed for: Those who are responsible for developing and leading safeguarding practice in Adult and Children’s Services. This might include Principal Social Workers, Assistant Directors or others with responsibility for practice and service development. |
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August
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August |
Supporting older people with drug and alcohol problems: Research and Policy Update 149 August 2019 |
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September
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September |
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12 September |
King's House, Manchester |
Transitional safeguarding The complexities of safeguarding children and adults have been challenging practice. Issues of violent crime, gang activity, domestic abuse, modern slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation require local areas to adapt and innovate safeguarding practice with adolescents and young adults. Bringing together emerging research with examples of innovative local practice, this joint Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults workshop will provide the opportunity to explore transitional safeguarding, and will support participants to reflect on practice and leadership within this area. Delegates are asked to attend in pairs from their local area, with one strategic level participant from Adult Services and the other from Children’s Services. Designed for: Those who are responsible for developing and leading safeguarding practice in Adult and Children’s Services. This might include Principal Social Workers, Assistant Directors or others with responsibility for practice and service development. |
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18 September |
The Studio, Birmingham |
Working with people who have experienced prison This workshop will explore how you can effectively work with people who are currently in prison, or who have been in prison. It will cover some of the structural barriers and issues that can be experienced in building relationships and support, alongside examples of lived experience to explore specific needs and feelings associated with being in prison. Designed for: People working in practice with adults. |
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19 September |
Engineers' House, Bristol |
Transitional safeguarding The complexities of safeguarding children and adults have been challenging practice. Issues of violent crime, gang activity, domestic abuse, modern slavery, trafficking and sexual exploitation require local areas to adapt and innovate safeguarding practice with adolescents and young adults. Bringing together emerging research with examples of innovative local practice, this joint Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults workshop will provide the opportunity to explore transitional safeguarding, and will support participants to reflect on practice and leadership within this area. Delegates are asked to attend in pairs from their local area, with one strategic level participant from Adult Services and the other from Children’s Services. Designed for: Those who are responsible for developing and leading safeguarding practice in Adult and Children’s Services. This might include Principal Social Workers, Assistant Directors or others with responsibility for practice and service development. |
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25 September |
Engineers' House, Bristol |
Working with people who have experienced prison |
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26 September |
Birmingham |
Costs, complexity and compassion: The leadership challenge Leaders of services across the children’s and adults’ sector are navigating difficult decisions in which three factors loom large – the cost of meeting people’s needs, the complexity of the people’s lives and the interconnectedness of solutions, and the moral imperative to ensure that services and systems are grounded in compassion. Keeping all three themes in mind is no easy task, yet the evidence suggests that it is necessary to do so, if we are to design and provide services to meet the needs of children, families and adults. |
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Leaders’ Forum: Network Event
October
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October |
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October |
This briefing explores what is needed to support the development of compassionate leadership skills in both supervisors and those they directly supervise and work with. It includes:
The briefing also provides some practical tools to support the development of compassionate leadership skills across organisations. Designed for: Supervisors in adult social care. |
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October |
Embedding trauma-informed approaches in adult social care We are all impacted by our past experiences, which can have a lasting effect on the way we view and experience the world. This Frontline Briefing will develop the capacity of practitioners to understand how complex trauma affects people. Practitioners reading this publication will build their confidence in applying trauma-informed approaches in their work with people across the life course. |
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October |
Autism inclusive practice |
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October |
Working together across housing and social care This resource explores the opportunities for successful relationships across housing and adult social care. By ‘housing’ we mean the local authority homelessness, strategic and regulatory housing roles (noting that this sits with the district council in a two-tier authority) and the broader housing sector (including housing associations and housing support providers). It describes the landscape in and across these sectors and considers the implications of this for joint working. It proposes tips for effective partnership working, drawn from the practice and research evidence and supported by practical examples and tools. Designed for: Practitioners and managers working in social care and in housing roles across the sector, and others with a wider interest in promoting integrated working. |
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15 October |
Maple House, Birmingham |
Link Officers’ Annual Meeting |
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24 October |
Online |
The Liberty Protection Safeguards received Royal Assent in May 2019 and are anticipated to come into force in October 2020. It is a significant piece of legislation in relation to social care, setting in place a new framework to authorise deprivation of liberty for those with impaired decision-making capacity. Unlike the existing legislation, it applies to 16 and 17 year olds, bringing new challenges for people working with this age group. In this Webinar, Alex Ruck Keene, who is an expert in mental capacity law and was a consultant to the Law Commission project that led to the Liberty Protection Safeguards, provides an overview of the key messages for practice. Designed for: People working in adult social care, as well as those working with young people aged 16 and 17. |
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Supervisors’ Briefing: Publication
Frontine Briefing: Publication
Practice Tool: Publication
Practice Guidance: Publication
November
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November |
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7 November |
Online |
Leading with compassion: What does the evidence say? We all have capacity to demonstrate leadership regardless of the formal role we carry out but many of us do not recognise ourselves as leaders. Social care staff are uniquely placed to show social care leadership particularly when their role requires them to work with multi-disciplinary professionals. This Webinar, which is linked to the briefing produced earlier in the year, will support supervisors to support individuals and teams to develop their capacity to show leadership. Designed for: Strategic and practice leads, service managers, Heads of Service and team managers in Adult Services. |
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12 November |
Engineers' House, Bristol |
Working with complexity: Social care and accommodation interfaces It can be challenging to unpick the best support options available for people who live in insecure housing or are at risk of homelessness due to a range of interrelating factors (for example, alcohol or mental wellbeing). This workshop will draw from local best practice to explore ways of working to achieve sustainable accommodation and support in complex circumstances. Designed for: Social workers, support workers and team managers in direct practice with adults. |
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19 November |
NCVO, London |
Working with people who have experienced prison This workshop will explore effective working with people who are currently in prison, or who have been in prison. It will cover some of the structural barriers and issues that can be experienced in building relationships and support, alongside examples of lived experience to explore specific needs and feelings associated with being in prison. Designed for: People working in practice with adults. |
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December
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December |
Strengths-based assessment: Research and Policy Update 153 December 2019 |
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3 December |
The Studio, Birmingham |
Working with complexity: Social care and accommodation interfaces |
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January
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January |
Involving people in the design and delivery of adult social care services: Research and Policy Update 154 January 2020 |
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28 January |
NCVO, London |
Working with complexity: Social care and accommodation interfaces It can be challenging to unpick the best support options available for people who live in insecure housing or are at risk of homelessness due to a range of interrelating factors (for example, alcohol or mental wellbeing). This workshop will draw from local best practice to explore ways of working to achieve sustainable accommodation and support in complex circumstances. Designed for: Social workers, support workers and team managers in direct practice with adults. |
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February
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February |
Working effectively with people who self-neglect: Research and Policy Update 155 February 2020 |
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11 February |
Online |
Models of safeguarding adults vary across England. This Webinar will share the learning from a research project examining and evaluating different models of safeguarding as well as bringing together different examples of models. Designed for: Safeguarding leads. |
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February |
Designing effective safeguarding adult review learning events This Practice Tool aims to support the development and delivery of effective learning events following the completion of a safeguarding adults review. Designed for: Safeguarding adults review authors, learning and development leads, safeguarding leads, Safeguarding Adult Board Managers, Safeguarding Adult Board Chairs. |
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February |
Forced labour and adult social care Forced labour is any work or service in which people are forced to do against their will, under threat of punishment. This can take place in a wide range of employment sectors, including social care. People using health and social care services may also be victims of modern slavery or human trafficking. Social care organisations also have a role in identifying victims of modern slavery and human trafficking who come to them to access services. This Strategic Briefing aims to enable strategic leaders to become familiar with the key research and gain a greater understanding as to what will best support victims of forced labour. Designed for: Local authority strategic leaders and decision-makers. It will also be of interest to frontline managers and their staff. |
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February |
In recent years there has been a significant increase in homelessness in the UK. This Strategic Briefing draws on evidence to illustrate where social care, alongside other support services, could take opportunities to act earlier to prevent people reaching crisis point and ending up homeless. It draws upon specific qualitative research with people currently sleeping on the streets, conducted as part of the European Ending Street Homelessness Campaign, to develop an understanding of individual needs and how services could support them out of crisis. The briefing aims to support strategic leaders in developing and communicating a locally relevant approach to delivering social care to prevent homelessness. It also makes recommendations on how to deliver social care directly to people who are sleeping rough and support them back into secure housing. Designed for: Senior leaders, Clinical Commissioning Group members, commissioners and Assistant Directors. |
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February |
Housing supply: Meeting the needs of the future social care population This Leaders Briefing aims to support practitioners in making best use of the information available to inform discussions and decisions about housing options with key partners locally. It will support practitioners to develop solutions that meet the needs of the future social care population in local areas. Designed for: Leaders of Adult Services including Lead Members, Chief Executives, Directors and Safeguarding Board Leads. |
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February |
County lines and criminal exploitation: A lifespan perspective ‘County lines’ refers to the practice of exploiting children, young people and adults to traffic drugs across county boundaries using dedicated mobile phone lines or other forms of ‘deal line’. It is estimated that in 2018 there were more than 1000 branded county lines across the UK (National Crime Agency, 2019). This Frontline Briefing examines existing research, knowledge and learning on county lines from child and adult sectors across rural and urban settings. It explores how and why people may be exploited at different times of their lives and offers a practical tool to support practitioners in identification and effective intervention. Designed for: All those working in Children’s, youth and Adult Services. |
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February |
Systems Leadership: Enhancing the role of social care |
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Strategic Briefing: Publication
Frontline Briefing: Publication
March
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March |
Title TBC: Research and Policy Update 156 March 2020 |
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