Parental substance misuse: tips for completing assessments

Addressing concerns of parental substance misuse can be challenging. Increasing knowledge of parental substance misuse can help social workers assess risk and protective factors, improve their confidence in direct work and managing difficult conversations, and inform their interventions with children and young people.
This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on parental substance misuse, which was published in June 2023. The full guide e