Joint webinar from Social Welfare History Group (USA) and the Social Work History Network (UK)

Prof Annette Boaz at the Bloorview Research Institute Global Guest Speaker Series

Becci Lace, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Dr Ben Hughes, University of Greater Manchester

The NIHR is investing almost £55 million in five additional Mental Health Research Groups (MHRGs). King’s College London researchers will collaborate on three of the five new groups.

As the global prevalence of dementia continues to rise, expanding and upskilling the health and social care workforce is a top priority. To address this need, s...

Doing inclusive applied health and care research in turbulent times

The failure of public agencies such as children’s social care, health and the police to share information about children and families has been repeatedly i

Hannah Piggott, King's College London

Dr Sara Carder; Dr Ian Rice; Laura Steeves

The sense of shock amongst lawyers and others concerned with the rights of children and those with impaired decision-making capacity at the announcement of the sudden death on New Year's Day of Sir James Munby is palpable.  I share it.  I was, the morning I learned of it, writing a book chapter directly inspired by a lecture that he gave, and could hear him with particular vividness (it was an unusual ability to be able to both boom and twinkle at the same time, something he had a particular habit of doing when catching my eye and telling me that I was flat wrong about something about which we both had strongly held but different views).   

The National Plan to End Homelessness has been launched today, and will support the most vulnerable people in our society.

New article from Ian Kessler and colleagues in Human Resource Management

Gill Taylor, Museum of Homelessness

There are two Codes of Practice to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, one for the main body of the Act, and one for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. They are statutory Codes: they have been approved by Parliament, and the MCA 2005 requires certain people to have regard to them. Those people include anyone acting in a professional capacity. Neither Code of Practice has ever been updated since they were published, the main Code in 2007, and the DoLS Code in 2009.

Unit researchers attended the NHS Employers Conference

The APPG inquiry is examining global health workforce migration

In this 'in conversation with,' I talk to Peter Edwards, a solicitor who has just passed his 50 year mark working in mental health (and, since it became a 'thing' mental capacity law), and who has had quite the most extraordinarily varied and significant impact in ways that you might not be aware of.  The article that I mention which sets out some of the things that he has done is…