Caring safely at home

SCIE's video-based resource designed for unpaid/informal carers. You may be caring for family members, friends or neighbours at home.

Giving medicines covertly: A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support

Part of Home care

This quick guide will help care home and home care managers to ensure that decisions about giving medicines covertly are made in the person’s best interests.

Sexual incidents in adults social care: evidence review briefing

Part of Safeguarding evidence and research

The briefing is a summary of a full evidence review about the scale and nature of sexual abuse in adult social care settings. The review looked at statutory notifications data received by the Care Quality Commission; a review of the literature focusing on literature published since 2010; and National Safeguarding Adults Reviews data. The review considered seven key questions: What is the incidence/prevalence of sexual abuse in adult social care settings in the UK?; How is sexual abuse defined in the studies and in the sector?; Which groups of people are most at risk of being affected by sexual abuse in adult social care settings?; What knowledge do we have about the perpetrators of sexual incidents?; What knowledge do we have about the contributing factors which allow abuse to happen in social care settings?; What do we know about how adult social care settings try to prevent or respond to sexual abuse?; and What are the gaps in existing evidence? Recommendations are made under three themes: data and evidence gaps and how these could be addressed; and training and development for staff and people drawing on services.

Infection control e-learning course

Part of e-Learning courses

Video-based, easy-to-navigate, essential e-learning to help organisations prevent the spread of infection.

Helping to prevent winter deaths and illnesses associated with cold homes

Part of Prevention and wellbeing

Home care managers need to ensure that care staff can recognise people at risk and that they know how to document and share concerns appropriately.

Giving medicines covertly: overcoming the challenges

Part of Home care

This webinar covered evidence-based practical solutions for overcoming challenges to giving medicines covertly.

Advance care planning

Part of Person-centred care

A quick guide for registered managers of care homes and home care services

Effective record keeping and ordering of medicines: a quick guide for home care managers providing medicines support

Part of Home care

A quick guide for home care managers covering two important aspects of medicines support – record keeping and checking and ordering medicines.

Discussing and planning medicines support: a quick guide for homecare managers providing medicines support

Part of Care providers – improvement support

This guide will be helpful to managers of services where it has been agreed that medicines support will be included as part of the home care service.

Better home care for older people

This guide is for people who use home care, their families and their carers. It describes the standard of care you should expect from a home care provider and explains what you should do if your provider is failing to deliver good care.