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.

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

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.

Reablement e-learning course

Part of e-Learning courses

e-Learning course for health and care workers describing reablement, how it differs from home care and intermediate care, and why and how the service should be delivered.

Therapeutic approaches to social work in residential child care settings

Following a regional review of residential child care in 2007, the five health and social care (HSC) Trusts in Northern Ireland introduced 'therapeutic approaches' in a number of children's homes and in the regional secure units. The approaches were used to help staff understand how trauma effects children and young people. This report gives the results of an evaluation of these approaches. The five approaches evaluated were Sanctuary, CARE (Children and Residential Experiences), Social pedagogy, ARC (Attachment, Self-regulation and Competency) and MAP (Model of Attachment Practice). The evaluation looked at the evidence for each of the chosen models and explored their similarities and differences. It also gathered the experiences of key stakeholders – including managers, staff and young people – of using the models and their effects. The report also gives the results of an analysis of the patterns in reporting untoward incidents. Staff reported that the training did improve their practice and young people noticed a improved 'atmosphere'. The report is available as a pdf document and online resource.