Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)

A suite of 12 resources which includes short films, reports, at a glance summaries and tools on Independent Mental Health Advocacy. The resources aim to raise awareness and understanding of the IMHA role amongst service users and mental health staff; improve access IMHA, help providing an understand what a good service looks like, and how outcomes can be measured. The resources have been produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence in partnership with The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston.

How to understand and measure impact of integrated care

Part of Better Care Fund resources

This guide for health and social care managers provides practical tools and tips on how to measure the impact of integrated health and care.

Putting people at the heart of social work: lessons from the Named Social Worker Programme

Part of Named Social Worker

Lessons learned from the Named Social Worker (NSW) programme to benefit social work teams and services across the country. This guide focuses on practice and on the lessons emerging from implementation across the sites.

Named Social Worker: programme evaluation - final report

Part of Named Social Worker

The Named Social Worker programme aims to build an understanding of how having a named social worker can contribute to people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs achieving better outcomes. This report is a final evaluation of the programme.

Named Social Worker: summary of evaluation findings

Part of Named Social Worker

Summary evaluation findings from phase 2 of the Named Social Worker (NSW) programme evaluation.

Evaluation of the NWG and CSE Response Unit

Part of Tackling child abuse and neglect

The NWG Network commissioned SCIE to evaluate the impact of the CSE Response Unit on the work of practitioners tackling child sexual exploitation, and make recommendations about how to improve services. This report presents the data against the key research questions.

Evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) project

Part of Carers

Helping carers to stay in, or return to, employment

Evaluating personalised care

Part of Person-centred care

This guide aims to help practitioners measure and evaluate the impact of personalised care programmes, initiatives or new ways of working.

Named Social Worker: baseline report

Part of Named Social Worker

This Baseline report brings together the core hypothesis that each of the six pilot sites involved in the Named Social Worker programme is testing, an analysis of emerging themes, an outline of the programme’s approach to evaluation and mini case studies illustrating different elements of implementation.

Evaluation of the Care Assistant Development Programme: Learning from early implementation - SCIE evaluation report for HC-One

Part of Care providers – improvement support

An independent evaluation of a Care Assistant Development Programme (CADP) designed to develop senior carers into nursing assistants in HC-One care homes.