This article comprises of tips taken from two quick guides on Community Care Inform Adults about taking a strengths-based approach to assessment questions and difficult conversations. The guides are ...

Strengths-based practice is a social work theory that focuses on people’s strengths and goals rather than their problems. It has gained increasing popularity over the last few years, particularly with ...

Housing, the NHS, community organisations and local people should all be working to the same philosophy as social care, writes the deputy chief executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence ...

“Don’t break the law. Don’t blow the budget. Do no harm”. It’s not a rogue cop on a US TV show – that advice comes from leaders in one council I recently heard about. With this ‘Rule of Three’ they ...