SCIE Guide 7: Fostering
Foster carers
In this section:
- Profile of foster carers
- Recruiting foster carers
- Training foster carers
- Retaining foster carers
- Creating job satisfaction for foster carers
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- People
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Older people
Advice on dementia, housing, mental health and dignity.
People with physical or sensory impairments
Guidance for those who work with people with physical disabilities.
People with learning disabilities
Working with people who have learning disabilities and their carers.
People with mental health problems
Supporting people with mental health problems.
Carers
Providing care for a relative, friend or neighbour.
Children and young people
Supporting and informing those who work with children and their families.
Parents and families
Integrated working with families across children's and adults' services...
Seldom-heard groups
Helping seldom-heard groups to access services.
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- Care needs
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Exploring the nature and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and related disorders.
Autism
Implications of personalisation for people with autistic spectrum conditions and the services they use.
Dementia
Supporting people with dementia, their carers and care professionals.
Eating and nutritional care
Meeting the nutritional needs of people who have social care support.
End of life care
Supporting the development of services that provide end-of-life care
Health needs
Focusing on people who have health as well as social care needs.
Learning disabilities
Guidance for those who work with people with learning disabilities.
Looked after and adopted children and young people
Guidance for people working with care-experienced children and young people.
Mental capacity
Publications and films that support the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act.
Mental health problems
Specific ways to help parents, working-age adults, older people and minority groups
Physical or sensory impairments
Guidance for professionals who work with adults and children with physical disabilities.
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- Care services
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Carers' support
Exploring the role of carers and how services can support them.
Child protection: Learning Together
Resources on SCIE's systems approach to case reviews - Learning Together
Equipment and telecare
The use of equipment and telecare in social care, plus ethical issues.
Home care
Advice for providers of care to people who live in their own homes.
End of life care
Supporting the development of services that provide end of life care
Housing needs
How housing can affect the quality of life of adults and children.
Looked-after children
Guidance for people working with looked-after children and young people.
Prevention and reablement
How prevention and early intervention can support independence and wellbeing.
Residential or nursing care
Information, including training materials, for providers of residential and nursing care.
Adult safeguarding
Resources, including Social Care TV films, about supporting people who are at risk
Shared Lives
Information about Shared Lives schemes where carers offer support in their own homes.
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- Key issues
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Access to services
Guidance for local authorities on assessing people's needs for social care support.
Commissioning
Working in partnership to commission personalised care and support services.
Equality and discrimination
Promoting equality and avoiding discrimination in the social care sector.
Innovation
Cost-effective ways of working that improve life for people who use services.
Integration
Promoting closer working between health and social care.
Dignity in care
Why dignity is so important and how it can be achieved
Isolation
Reaching and supporting socially isolated groups.
Managing knowledge
Supporting knowledge management and the development of the social care knowledge base.
Mental capacity
Publications and films that support the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act.
Participation
Involving people who use services.
Partnerships
Ways of working with other people and organisations to improve service provision.
Paying for services
Paying people who use services for their involvement in developing social care services.
Personalisation
Resources for professionals, carers and people using services on implications of personalisation, including personal budgets.
Productivity and efficiency
Resources focusing on research into the impact of personalisation on care service productivity and efficiency.
Safeguarding adults
Resources, including Social Care TV films, about supporting people who are at risk
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- Developing skills and services
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Social work
Supporting social workers to practice with confidence.
Frontline practice
Good practice for social care workers.
Management and leadership
Good leadership and management are essential for better outcomes for people who use services.
Commissioning
Working in partnership to commission personalised care and support services.
Educators and trainers
Supporting social work educators and trainers in developing frameworks for teaching and learning.
Managing knowledge and research
Research to support evidence-based practice.
Social Care Research Ethics Committee
The Social Care REC reviews adult social care research study proposals from researchers based in England.
Sustainable social care
Encouraging commissioners to promote sustainable development across the social care sector.
Social Care TV
An online service for everyone involved in the social care and social work sector.
eLearning resources
Using audio, video and interactive technology.
Social Care Online
UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care.
SCIE Athens
Athens provides FREE access through a single login to a range of subscription-based electronic information resources.
Get Connected
Enabling providers of care for adults in England to access ICT more effectively.
Training and consultancy solutions
SCIE delivers training and consultancy solutions to help care providers and commissioners implement good practice.
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