Latest videos on Social Care TV
Social Care TV: Therapeutic Approaches to Residential Child Care in Northern Ireland
This film shows how children's homes in Northern Ireland have introduced training in ‘therapeutic approaches' for their residential child care staff. The approaches help staff to have a better understanding of how children's experiences affect them, to consider their emotional needs and foster resilience
Commissioning for personalisation - London
Short film about commissioning services to support personalisation based on work in London
Commissioning for personalisation - Dorset
A short film about commissioning personalised services based on work in Dorset
Prevention: Promoting Well-being
This film features two bereaved people who have both found that joining social groups has helped to reduce their feelings of isolation and brought some enjoyment back into their lives.
Social Care TV: Safeguarding adults in care homes
This film looks at how a care home can ensure the safety and well-being of its residents by involving staff, families and the residents themselves in developing and implementing safeguarding procedures.
Social Care TV: Prevention: Early intervention
Maintaining independence through falls prevention and fitness programmes.
Social Care TV: Action against burglary
A video which explains how care workers can help older people to guard against distraction burglary, bogus callers and rogue traders, and ways they can help older people to remain safe, secure and confident at home.
Social Care TV: Working with people with autism: the autistic perspective
The video looks at the experiences of Scott, a man with autism and learning disabilities, and Marie, a professor with Asperger's syndrome.
This film talks about the experiences of a gay man with a physical disability and how he feels social care should develop to provide more choice and control for the user of services.
A film that looks at multiple support needs and sexuality.
In this film we meet Richard, a man with a learning disability talking about his desire to have a relationship.
In this film we meet Nick who talks of his experience of adopting as a transgendered person.
This film talks about the experiences of Roger and his partners in receiving social care support.
Social Care TV: Working together to promote independence
The film looks at services which support young people who have been in care and are moving to independence.
Social Care TV: What is social work? Services for older people
This film focuses on the very rewarding, diverse but complex role of a social workers working in an adult's services team.
Social Care TV: What is social work? Emergency Duty Team
This film focuses on the very rewarding but complex role of a social worker within an Emergency Duty Team.
Social Care TV: What is social work? Children and families
This film follows the work of a children's services social work social worker.
Social Care TV: What is personalisation?
The concept of personalisation in adult social care services.
This film is about mental wellbeing and some of the risk factors for people from BME communities. In particular, it examines how relatively simple early intervention and prevention approaches can help minimise isolation and loneliness and improve overall mental wellbeing.
This third film in the series on mental wellbeing looks at the role of the local authority in enabling community organisations to promote personalised services. The film is based on a case study of a Chinese organisation in the London Borough of Barnet which has been running a pilot scheme funded by the authority and providing services to Chinese older people.
