Ethical considerations for digital capabilities

Part of Digital Capabilities for Social Workers

As part of the Digital Capabilities Statement, this briefing supports social and health care workers by highlighting ethical considerations.

Webinar: Responding to COVID-19 – the ethical framework for adult social care

Part of COVID-19: Insights and experiences from the sector

The Department of Health and Social Care’s Ethical Framework provides support to ongoing response planning and decision-making. This webinar shows you how to use the framework.

The ethics of sustainable health and social care: towards a framework for decision-making

This report breaks new ground in examining the ethical challenges potentially posed by factoring environmental outcomes into different levels of health and social care decision-making, including resource allocation and treatments.

Telecare - the ethical debate

This video for social care commissioners and staff describes some of the ethical concerns of using telecare and offers practical advice about overcoming them and ensuring people who use it gain the maximum benefit offered by telecare technology.

Ethical issues in the use of telecare

This report explores the complex ethical issues surrounding the commissioning and provision of telecare and the difficult decisions that professionals may face.

Ethical issues in the use of telecare

Briefing looking at the ethical issues which local strategies and protocols should reflect and which practitioners should think about when supporting people to use telecare services.

Types and quality of knowledge in social care

This knowledge review looks at what types of knowledge SCIE should draw on and how to distinguish good quality knowledge in policy making and practice. This review underpins all of SCIE's research and publications and will also be useful for other researchers.