Self-neglect at a glance

Part of Self-neglect

Self-neglect is an extreme lack of self-care, sometimes associated with hoarding and may be a result of issues such as addictions. This briefing is for frontline housing officers, social workers, police and health professionals.

Breaking down the barriers to co-production (Webinar)

Part of Co-production

This webinar looks at how to break down barriers to co-production. It draws on experience of co-production in a wide range of settings including local authorities, voluntary organisations and health care to outline the common barriers to co-production and share potential solutions.

Integrating Better

Part of Integrated care

Developed over 16 local areas, this guide captures common features of good practice of integration between health, social care and the voluntary and community sector. The guide looks at leading integration and the key services and approaches that are needed for effective integration. These include commissioning, risk stratification, information sharing, and multi-disciplinary team working. Practical service examples under three themes show where integration can have a specific impact. The themes cover: Promoting self-care and independence; Supporting care closer to home; and Care and support in a crisis. The guide is aimed at directors, service managers and operational staff in both health and social care. Case studies and links guidance and resources are also included.

Using Serious Case Review Quality Markers to support quality

Part of Safeguarding children

This webinar provides an introduction to a set of 18 quality markers for use in children's case reviews and serious case reviews, which were developed as part of the Learning into Practice project. The webinar provides an overview of the rationale for the work, describes how the markers have been developed and how they might be used. The Quality Markers are intended to support commissioners and lead reviewers to commission and conduct high quality reviews. Covering the whole process, the quality markers provide a consistent and robust approach to SCRs and are informed by the existing knowledge base regarding investigations/reviews and organisational learning.

Cross-border placements

Guidance to assist local authorities in the UK involved in cross-border placements where an adult is being, or has been, placed by an English, Welsh or Scottish local authority or Northern Irish health and social care trust into accommodation in a different UK country.

Good practice in social care for asylum seekers and refugees

The purpose of this guide is to support commissioners and providers of social care services to work effectively with refugees and asylum seekers.

Care Improvement Works

This resource map Skills for Care, SCIE and selected TLAP products and services to the Care Quality Commission’s five questions and key lines of enquiry (KLOEs) during inspection. It has been developed to help managers, owners and care staff identify material to support improvement in areas where they may have concerns, or to review their current practice against recognised good practice.

Social care governance: a practice workbook (NI)

This workbook uses a social care governance framework to support practitioners, managers and teams to reflect on and evaluate their practice and to make improvements.

Making sure personal budgets work for older people: briefing

This review looks at key challenges to successful implementation of personal budgets for older people and has started to identify positive practice and solutions.

Protecting adults at risk in London: good practice resource

This resource is a tool for staff engaged in safeguarding adults at risk. It gives practical pointers to help people assess the risk of abuse, recognise it when it does occur and respond to it appropriately.