Person-centred care resources and services

What is a strengths-based approach?

The Care Act 2014 puts a strengths-based approach at the centre of someone’s assessment, care and support

Lessons learned from the CQC’s Local Systems Reviews Support Programme

Short report highlighting insights and recommendations from SCIE's work supporting local areas following Care Quality Commission local system reviews. The reviews aimed to understand how services are working together to meet the needs of people who move between health and care services, with a focus on people aged over 65. The recommendations highlight the need for any area developing plans to tackle the interface between health and care to: engage all local partners in planning; clarify governance arrangements to ensure ownership and delivery of action plans are clear; align plans with existing programmes; balance short-term fixes with longer-term improvements; and consider the use of external facilitators to challenge and support planning. The insights will be useful for leaders responsible for developing integrated working within health and wellbeing boards, local authorities and clinical commissioning groups.

What to expect during assessment and care planning

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A quick guide to help people to understand what they should expect from social care staff during assessment and care planning. The guide explains that an individual's care and support should be based on what they can already do, what they want to achieve and the help they need to live their lives in the way they want to. The guide covers: making decisions, support from an advocate, needs assessment, and care and support planning. It has been co-produced by NICE and SCIE and is based on NICE’s guideline on people’s experience in adult social care services: improving the experience of care and support for people using adult social care services.

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

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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 site profiles and resources

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Profiles, portraits and tools from Named Social Workers who took part in the Named Social Worker programme

Big Plans: a guide for meaningfully engaging people with learning disabilities in the development of their plans

Part of Named Social Worker

The aim of this toolkit is to support social workers in working with people with learning disabilities and/or autism to plan for important moments in their lives, for example transition into adulthood or moving from hospital back into the community.

Peter's story: the perspective of a person supported by a named social worker

Part of Named Social Worker

Read about how the Named Social Worker initiative has supported and helped Peter, who is a 19 year old man with an autistic spectrum condition and a learning disability. From crisis point to: ‘I can't believe the change in him.’

Named Social Worker: programme evaluation - final report

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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

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

Named Social Worker: Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

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An estimation of the costs and benefits associated with the delivery of the Named Social Worker (NSW) programme using a financial return on investment (FROI) model.

SCIE resources and services

Person-centred care resources and services