Social work education case study: Anglia Ruskin University

Part of Co-production

In this film for social work educators and students, people who use services, carers and academics describe participation in a social work degree. It looks at how users and carers are involved in the course, the benefits students get from contact with them and what users and carers gain from the experience.

Personalisation for someone with a learning disability

Part of Personalisation

This film for health and social commissioners and staff introduces a young woman who has Angelman Syndrome and lives with her family in a rural setting. Personal budgets have made a big difference to her life allowing the family to function better and preventing her from going into residential care.

User involvement in adult safeguarding

This report is about involving people who use services in adult safeguarding. It looks at policies and practice, barriers and lessons learned from evaluating adult safeguarding processes.

Personalisation briefing: implications for advocacy workers

Part of Personalisation

Part of our new series on personalisation for professionals, this briefing produced with VoiceAbility (formerly Advocacy Partners) summarises the implications for advocacy workers.

Participation: finding out what difference it makes

Online guide looking at the ways that service user and carer participation is being evaluated and suggesting ways of finding out what difference this participation is making to social care services

The participation of adult service users, including older people, in developing social care

This guide offers quick and easy access to practice knowledge about how social care agencies can develop the involvement of adults including older people in developing social care services. It covers key research findings; ideas from practice; details of relevant legislation, guidance and standards; and links to further information. It is aimed primarily at practitioners and managers but will also be useful to everyone involved in promoting adult service users' participation.

Developing measures for effective service user and carer participation

Part of Co-production

This paper presents the process and outcomes of research in to service user and carer participation in developing social care services. This research was charged not with evaluating the impact of participation, but with scoping what is know about it and how evaluations are being conducted