Tag: Research

Research in Practice

Dear all,

New Article: What supports evidence-informed practice in social care?

Earlier this year, Research in Practice conducted a small number of focus groups to hear from professionals in a range of roles about what supports them to use evidence in their practice. 

We heard excellent examples of how professionals at all levels were supported and enabled to use Research in Practice resources to support learning and development.

In this new article, Lorna Trend shares key findings from these conversations, highlighting how the use of research and evidence can have a positive impact on practice with children, young people, families, adults, carers and communities. 

New Workshops: Artificial intelligence-enabled practice in social care

This full-day workshop is designed to:

  • Build practitioner confidence in the safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence across social care;
  • Help practitioners and those supporting practice in using AI tools lawfully and responsibly for case recording and administration;
  • Focus on using AI in ways that align with professional standards, protect individual rights and dignity, and reduce the risks of ungoverned practice.

This workshop is aimed at: Frontline practitioners across Children’s and Adults social care, practice supervisors, practice leaders (including PSWs and service managers) and CPD teams.

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin

from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service

can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:  
 

  • The association between 24‐hr movement patterns and self‐harm incidence in adolescence
  • The Impact of Emotional Arousal on Physical Pain and Numbness in Individuals Who Engage in Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury
  • Investigating Predictors of Differential Trajectories of Suicidal Desire Across an Intensive Longitudinal Design
  • Plus much more
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Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities

Parents with learning difficulties often face significant challenges that contribute to their overall disadvantage. Research shows these parents are over-represented in child welfare systems, with international estimates suggesting that 40-60% of their children are removed from their care at some point.

While safeguarding concerns remain central, these figures raise important questions about how parenting capacity is assessed and how parents are supported. We explore this further in our latest blog from the Working Together with Parents Network.

Link: Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities | Research in Practice 

from Research in Practice

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin

from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service

In this issue:  
   

  • Between Protocol and Presence: Clinicians’ Work in Suicide Risk Assessment
  • Recognizing Risk, Responding with Care: The Development of a Crisis Response Program for Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation in Children with Autism
  • The impact of patient death and suicide on mental health professionals: mixed-methods study
  • Psychological safety on mental health wards: more than preventing harm
  • Plus much more
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Latest Neurodiversity Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Neurodiversity Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Neurodiversity Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/neurodiversity/2026/06/16-june-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Changes to the definition of deprivation of liberty
  • The high cost of undiagnosed and untreated ADHD: Unequal mental‑health access and the care economy
  • How gaps in education, work and welfare support can push neurodivergent people into homelessness
  • Can We Talk About Suicide Among Men with ADHD?
  • Local areas prepare new Experts at Hand teams
  • Unlocking dyslexic potential: our new strategy for 2026 to 2030
  • Plus much more

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Mental health difficulties among young adults have doubled in past decade.

Centre for Longitudinal Studies; 2026.

https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health-difficulties-among-young-adults-have-doubled-in-past-decade/


[More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier, finds a new UCL study.]
Freely available online

What’s the emergency when prisoners go to A&E?

A&E attendances by people in prisons in England.


Nuffield Trust; 2026.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/what-s-the-emergency-when-prisoners-go-to-ae-emergency-hospital-attendances-by-people-in-prisons-in-england


[This new report is the first to offer an in-depth assessment of A&E use by people in prison and adds to mounting evidence that health care is harder for prisoners to access. It finds a higher-than-expected number of A&E attendances by prisoners due to paracetamol overdose, seizures, and acute coronary syndrome, with opportunities for targeted intervention in these areas to avoid health crises.]
Freely available online

New Learning Disabilities Bulletin


Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/07/1-july-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Psychopathology from childhood to adolescence in children with and without Mild Intellectual Disability (MID): a comparison across three MID operationalizations
  • Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Report Published
  • Falling nurse numbers leave people with learning disabilities behind
  • Lived Experience of Pica: a parent and sister’s perspective
  • New three-year learning disabilities and autism plan to “transform” support
  • What four things are carers telling us about health and social care?
  • Plus much more

Resources to support work around Mental Health and Wellbeing

Dear all,

Click here to explore Research in Practice resources to support Mental Health Awareness Week, including:

Supporting mental health and wellbeing | Research in Practice
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