Commissioning home care for older people

This guide is aimed at health and social care commissioners of home care services for older people with complex needs.

Care leavers: reflections on being in care

Part of Care leavers' stories

The care leavers in this video talk about their experiences of being in care. It will interest social workers, care workers, teachers and other professionals and carers.

Care leavers: journeys through the care system

Part of Care leavers' stories

The care leavers in this video talk about how they came into care and their journey through the care system. It will interest social workers, care workers, teachers and other professionals and carers.

Care leavers: the making of the care leavers stories project

Part of Care leavers' stories

This video explains how SCIE’s care stories films were made. Contributions from the care leavers, academics and interviewers. It will interest social workers, care workers, teachers and other professionals and carers.

Service user and carer involvement in the supervision of health and social care workers: seminar report

This report presents findings from a seminar of service users and carers, health and social care practitioners and managers to discuss their different experiences of being involved in or having input into supervision. It forms part of a project on the delivery of supervision to health and social care workers in integrated settings. The report also covers the potential benefits of involvement; the potential difficulties with such involvement; ideas about how to increase such involvement.

Mental health transitions: an integrated practice example

This video for mental health managers and staff is about the challenge of improving transition when young people are no longer eligible for services from the child and adolescent mental health team at the age of 16. Hear staff and young people talk about the services.

End of life care: why talking about death and dying matters

A personalised approach gives people moving towards the end of life a voice and influence over their care. This video for health and care staff looks at how personalised care can be achieved through the Living Well tool, which involves creating a one page profile to record a person’s needs and wishes.

Therapeutic approaches to social work in residential child care settings

Following a regional review of residential child care in 2007, the five health and social care (HSC) Trusts in Northern Ireland introduced 'therapeutic approaches' in a number of children's homes and in the regional secure units. The approaches were used to help staff understand how trauma effects children and young people. This report gives the results of an evaluation of these approaches. The five approaches evaluated were Sanctuary, CARE (Children and Residential Experiences), Social pedagogy, ARC (Attachment, Self-regulation and Competency) and MAP (Model of Attachment Practice). The evaluation looked at the evidence for each of the chosen models and explored their similarities and differences. It also gathered the experiences of key stakeholders – including managers, staff and young people – of using the models and their effects. The report also gives the results of an analysis of the patterns in reporting untoward incidents. Staff reported that the training did improve their practice and young people noticed a improved 'atmosphere'. The report is available as a pdf document and online resource.

Therapeutic approaches to social work in residential child care settings

This briefing summarises an evaluation of therapeutic approaches in a number of children’s homes and regional secure units in Northern Ireland, with the aim of improving staff skills and outcomes for young people.

Personalisation for someone with a physical disability

Part of Personalisation

This film for health and social care commissioners and staff, personal assistants and people who use services, introduces Stephen Page, a man with MS. Having a personal budget has enabled Stephen to continue to attend events which help him to lead his chosen life and preserve his personal identity.