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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.

  • Care needs
    • 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.

  • Care services
    • 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.

  • Key issues
    • 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 and carers

      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

  • Developing skills and services
    • 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.

      Participation

      Guidance and resources to help promote service user and carer involvement.

      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.

  • «Participation

Participation - adults

Involving adults in the design and delivery of social care services.

People not processes: the future of personalisation
SCIE Report 55
Published: March 2012

Mental health, employment and the social care workforce
SCIE Report 48

Mental health, employment and the social care workforce
SCIE Research briefing 38

Mental health, employment and the social care workforce
SCIE At a glance 48

A commissioner's guide to developing and sustaining user-led organisations
SCIE Guide 36
Published: June 2010

Personalisation briefing: Implications for user-led organisations
SCIE At a glance 15
Published: October 2009

Commissioning to develop and sustain user-led organisations (ULOs)
SCIE At a glance 25
Published: May 2010

User involvement in adult safeguarding
SCIE At a glance 47
Published: October 2011

Personalisation briefing: Implications for advocacy workers
SCIE At a glance 12
Published: August 2009

Mtetezi - Developing mental health advocacy with African and Caribbean men
SCIE Knowledge review 15

Supporting self-advocacy
SCIE Position paper 6

Working together: Carer participation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
SCIE Position paper 5

User involvement in adult safeguarding
SCIE Report 47
Published: September 2011

Developing social care: service users' vision for adult
SCIE Report 7

  • Social Care TV: The mental health and wellbeing of elders in black and minority ethnic communities: working together for 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.

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