Social care governance: A practice workbook

Published: June 2007

Social care governance is a little defined or understood term. This workbook sets out to show how social care governance is made up of many of social care’s core activities, familiar to practitioners. It puts social care governance into direct practice by taking a team audit approach. This helps teams reflect on and evaluate their practice, using the knowledge SCIE has gathered, to make improvements. The audit framework helps the wider organisation to learn from practice.

The audit tool has been designed specifically for social workers in Northern Ireland. It has been field-tested in different programmes of care in five pilot sites across Northern Ireland, and has been endorsed by staff at all levels in the organisation.  SCIE thinks that the workbook will be of great interest and help to social care and health organisations in England and Wales as they begin to follow Northern Ireland’s lead in developing social care governance.  

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