Recognising and preventing delirium

This quick guide from NICE and SCIE will help care home managers and their staff to recognise the symptoms of delirium and to understand what they can do to prevent it.

Personal budgets: risk enablement and mental health

This film shows the importance of risk enablement and creating a culture where staff and service users with personal budgets and direct payments can openly discuss risk. It focuses on people with mental health problems.

User involvement in adult safeguarding

This At a glance briefing looks at ways of involving people who use services in adult safeguarding at an individual level and at a strategic level.

Sexual, reproductive and mental health: unprotected and risky sex

Part of Sexual, reproductive and mental health e-learning

This e-learning resource on unprotected and risky sex is one of 8 modules developed to help mental health professionals deal with aspects of sexual and reproductive health in the context of mental illness. The module covers safe and unsafe sex, including condom use and barriers to using condoms, the diversity of sexual practices, sex and the law.

Dementia e-learning: what causes dementia?

Part of Dementia

One of a series of e-learning resources from the Open Dementia e-learning programme which aims provides a general introduction to the dementia and the experience of living with dementia. This module covers: the different types of dementia and the key characteristics of each; the different areas of the brain and how dementia affects these areas; and factors that are known to increase or lessen the risk of dementia. This resource contains audio and video.

SCIE research briefing 27: factors that assist early identification of children in need in integrated or inter-agency settings

SCIE Research briefings

Managing risk and minimising mistakes in services to children and families

This report focuses specifically on reducing risk in services to children and families by identifying and learning from near misses in children's services. It aims to start a debate about the management of risk at an organisational level and to support the introduction of the Children Act 2004 in England and Wales and the development of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs).

SCIE research briefing 16: deliberate self-harm (DSH) among children and adolescents: who is at risk and how is it recognised?

SCIE Research briefings