SCIE media releases 2006

Care Services Improvement Partnership and Social Care Institute for Excellence to work together

08 August 2006

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) this week signed an agreement to work together on social care issues to help improve the quality of services.

The organisations formalised their partnership in order to make clear their firm commitment to share resources and expertise where the two organisations ' work is complementary.

CSIP and SCIE have a common aim of improving the outcomes and experiences of people who use services and their families and supporters.

CSIP works through a range of activities, which provide direct support to assist health and social care organisations to improve services while SCIE's expertise is in developing and disseminating knowledge about good practice.

As a key priority the organisations will draw on each other's experience as they develop strategies to support people who use services, carers and their supporters to become more involved in their own care.

Both organisations will make use of already established forums for exchanging and developing methods of working and share processes wherever possible to avoid duplication.

Chief Executive of CSIP said:

"By working with SCIE we can achieve more in helping local services gain better outcomes for people. This new agreement shows that we are practicing what we preach - national bodies need to 'join-up' too and there is much to be gained by sharing our ideas and knowledge ."

Chief Executive of SCIE, Bill Kilgallon, said:

"As the organisation responsible for advancing knowledge about good practice in social care, it's imperative that SCIE works with all national bodies.

CSIP's regional structure will help us to focus our guidance at local services and our knowledge base will support their development activities. SCIE is looking forward to working with CSIP to improve social care services for all ."

Media contact

Annie Goss | Communications Officer | T: 020 7089 7117 | M: 07739 458 192 | Email: annie.goss@scie.org.uk