Social Work Practices: Report of the National Evaluation

An independent evaluation was commissioned by the Department for Education (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families) to:1. analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the overall Social Work Practice concept, and the specific benefits (or otherwise) of the different models employed and any lessons for alternate models;2. identify the impact of SWP pilots on children, their carers and their families;3. discover the impact of the SWP model on the children's social care workforce;4. identify the impact of SWP pilots on statutory child care social work in the hostlocal authorities and on the work of other agencies

Sustaining health improvement activities delivered in English professional football clubs using evaluation: a short communication

It has been suggested that football and communities are inextricably linked. Healthy lifestyles are an important component in maintaining the sustainability of local communities, not least, because a convincing evidence base supports the holistic benefits that can be derived from health-enhancing behaviours, such as regular physical activity. As such, efforts to promote health improvement through sport and physical activity include those interventions delivered in professional sporting settings. Johnman and colleagues (Johnman and Mackie, ‘The Beautiful Game’) have heralded sports clubs as important venues for the delivery of health improvement interventions for a range of groups across local communities. This includes health improvement activities delivered in professional football club community schemes. While exemplary practice shows how health improvement programmes can be implemented and evaluated, our experience and engagement with professional football club community schemes supports the notion that more needs to be undertaken to help clubs develop monitoring and evaluation strategies in order to assess the impact of their health improvement programmes. In our short communication, we share our plans for helping two professional football clubs develop their monitoring and evaluation strategies for their community health promotion programmes. Potential outcomes emerging from this process are twofold. (1) To help club community schemes in-build and sustain monitoring and evaluation practices within their future health improvement provision. (2) To use the impact and process outcomes emerging from programme evaluations, to successfully secure the necessary resources to sustain future health improvement activities for their local communities. Outcomes emerging from this study will be of interest to football clubs and evaluators alike, as they seek to develop evaluation strategies for their health improvement programmes

7 Principio de un liderazgo sostenible

The importance of an educational leader is such that their students, their school, and finally, the society as a whole, depend on his decisions and actions. For this reason, it is vital to learn how to execute a sustainable and effective leadership in the field of education, aspects covered in this article. La relevancia de un líder educativo es tal que de sus decisiones y actuaciones dependen sus alumnos, su colegio, y, por último, la sociedad en su totalidad. Por ello, es vital aprender a llevar a cabo un liderazgo sostenible y una dirección eficaz en el campo educativo, aspectos sobre los que trata este artículo

El liderazgo sustentable y el cambio en tiempos de confusión

Diez años atrás, los investigadores William Strauss y Neil Howe (1997) anticiparon las grandes transformaciones que se producirían cuando nuestro mundo tomase un profundo cambio de dirección. Strauss y Howe2 previeron que luego de una era de prosperidad, optimismo, seguridad, pragmatismo y conservadurismo social en la década de 1950; una era de despertar cultural y espiritual en las décadas de 1960 y 1970; y una era de individualismo y egocentrismo en las décadas de 1980 y 1990, sobrevendría un cuarto cambio, tan dramático como el acaecido en la Gran Depresión de los años 1930. Para estos investigadores esta nueva era trae consigo un colapso económico y la ruina financiera, la inseguridad y el conflicto, un profundo replanteo en la sociedad y la emergencia de estructuras, culturas y políticas, sistemas de valores y creencias profundamente diferentes a los existentes. En el cuarto cambio de dirección, la gente comienza a girar nuevamente hacia el exterior, más allá de sí mismos, en busca de la espiritualidad y el apoyo que puede permitirles la conexión con sus congéneres

Microsoft Teams and team performance in the COVID-19 pandemic within an NHS Trust Community Service in North-West England

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the impact the introduction of Microsoft Teams has had on team performance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic within a National Health Service (NHS) Community Service. Design/methodology/approach Microsoft Teams was rolled out across the NHS over a period of four days, partly in response to the need for social distancing. This case study reviews how becoming a virtual team affected team performance, the role Microsoft Teams had played in supporting staff to work in higher virtuality, understand what elements underpin a successful virtual team and how these results correlate to the technology acceptance model (Davis, 1985). Findings The findings indicate that Teams made a positive impact to the team at a time of heightened clinical pressures and working in unfamiliar environments without the supportive benefits of face-to-face contact with colleagues in terms of incidental knowledge sharing and health and well-being. Originality/value Further developments were needed to make virtual meetings more accessible for introverted colleagues, support asynchronous communication, address training needs and support leaders to adapt and operate in higher virtuality

Promoting Physical Activity with Hard-to-Reach Women: An Iterative and Participatory Research Study

Approximately half of all UK women are insufficiently physically active, with the lowest activity rates among ‘Hard-to-Reach’ or unreached women. In this article, Kathryn Brook, Dr Andy Pringle FRSPH, Dr Jackie Hargreaves and Dr Nicky Kime of Leeds Beckett University outline their research into developing methods to assess and meet the needs of ‘Hard-to-Reach’ women in needs-led and person-centred interventions

Effect of a health-improvement pilot programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club: the Burton Albion case study

Older adults are a priority within policy designed to facilitate healthy lifestyles through physical activities. Golden Goal is a pilot programme of physical activity-led health improvement for older adults, 55 years and older. Activities were delivered at Burton Albion Football Club. Sessions involved weekly moderate to vigorous intensity exercise sessions including exer-gaming (exercise-orientated video-games), indoor bowls, cricket, new age curling, walking football, and traditional board games and skittles. Secondary analysis of data collected through the original programme evaluation of Golden Goal investigated the impact of the intervention on participants. Older adults completed self-reports for demographics, health screening/complications and quality of life. Attendees, n = 23 males (42.6%) and n = 31 females (57.4%) with a mean age of 69.38 (±5.87) (n = 40), ranging from 55-85 years took part. The mean attendance was 7.73 (±3.12) sessions for all participants, (n = 51). Older adults with two or more health complications (n = 22, 42.3%) attended fewer sessions on average (6.91 ± 3.322) compared to those reporting less than two health complications (8.65 ± 2.694). Self-rated health was higher for women (87.32 ± 9.573) vs. men (80.16 ± 18.557), although this was not statistically significant (U = 223.500, p = 0.350). Results support the potential of football-led health interventions for recruiting older adults, including those reporting health problems. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis

Social Work Practices:Report of the National Evaluation, the Department for Education, Research Report DFE-RR233

An independent evaluation was commissioned by the Department for Education (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families) to:1. analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the overall Social Work Practice concept, and the specific benefits (or otherwise) of the different models employed and any lessons for alternate models;2. identify the impact of SWP pilots on children, their carers and their families;3. discover the impact of the SWP model on the children's social care workforce;4. identify the impact of SWP pilots on statutory child care social work in the hostlocal authorities and on the work of other agencies.<br/