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 site profiles and resources

Part of Named Social Worker

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: summary of evaluation findings

Part of Named Social Worker

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

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: Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

Part of Named Social Worker

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.

Named Social Worker: ten steps to creating your own cost benefit analysis

Part of Named Social Worker

A guide, developed by York Consulting, designed to assist Named Social Worker (NSW) teams to conduct their own economic assessment using a predictive cost benefit analysis (CBA) methodology.

Innovative models of health, care and support for adults

This briefing explains that innovative, often small-scale models of health, social care and support for adults could be scaled up to benefit as many people as possible. The challenge is to make scaling up successful. The briefing is based on research conducted during the spring of 2017 by Nesta, SCIE, Shared Lives Plus and PPL. It includes real life stories.

Person-centred care for people with learning disabilities

Part of Named Social Worker

Webinar about what it takes to deliver truly person-centred care for people with learning disabilities. Part of the Named Social Worker programme. Bringing together learning from teams from around the country.