Latest videos on Social Care TV
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Video: Liberty Protection Safeguards - Looking forwards
Video supporting the social care sector to prepare for and embed Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) within practice, aligning with human rights and duties of the Care Act.
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Have we learned the lessons from Steven Hoskin's murder?
Steven Hoskin was murdered by people who targeted him because of his learning disabilities. Over 10 years after the case, have we really learned the safeguarding lessons?
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Webinar recording: Innovation network (June 2020)
This webinar, recorded on 9 June 2020, looked at at phase II of the work of the new Social Care Innovation Network.
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Introduction to digital capabilities for educators and trainers
Resources that introduce digital capabilities to social work educators and trainers.
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Introduction to digital capabilities for social workers, supervisors and teams
Resources that introduce digital capabilities to social workers, supervisors and teams.
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Introduction to digital capabilities for people with lived experience
Resources that introduce digital capabilities to people who use services.
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Introduction to digital capabilities for leaders
Resources that introduce digital capabilities to leaders, managers, commissioners and policy developers.
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Webinar recording: Building trusted relationships in integrated care systems
Hear from experienced senior system leaders talk about what they've learned about building trust in an integrated care system.
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Webinar recording: Innovations for care leavers
Watch this SCIE webinar, which discusses new innovations for care leavers that builds resilience and skills for young people.
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Webinar recording: Enabling positive lives for autistic adults
SCIE and NICE discuss how organisations can come together and improve the lives of autistic adults through their own practice.
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Webinar recording: Domestic violence and abuse
Find out more about using NICE guidance to improve support for people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse and their children.
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A radical new approach to children's social care
This webinar looked at empowering social workers and placing relationships at the heart of children's practice
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Webinar recording: Digital capabilities for social workers
This webinar looked at the importance of digital capabilities for social workers and how it can be embedded in social work education, practice and CPD.
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Webinar recording: Achieving integrated care: 15 best practice actions
This webinar looked at a practical SCIE and LGA resource that supports local systems in fulfilling their ambition of integration.
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Co-production with children and families
This webinar, originally held in November 2019, explored co-production and working with children and families.
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Webinar: Leadership in strengths based social care
This webinar looked at how leadership in strengths-based approaches requires a shift from the traditional paternalistic model focused on ‘fixing' people, to getting alongside them and taking a holistic picture of their lives to identify how best outcomes can be achieved.
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Giving medicines covertly: overcoming the challenges
This webinar covered evidence-based practical solutions for overcoming challenges to giving medicines covertly.
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Evidence for strengths and asset-based approaches for social work practice
This webinar offers an opportunity to find out more about the evidence for strengths and assets-based outcomes, and how to implement models of practice and interventions for a strengths and asset-based approach.
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Relationship-based social work needs relationship based systems
This webinar, originally held in September 2019, explored the development of relationship based practice in Local Authority children's social work.
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Webinar recording: Transitions to adulthood
This webinar looked at how important it is that social care professionals support older teenagers to plan for their move into adulthood.
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Holding accessible and inclusive meetings (Webinar recording)
Making sure that co-production meetings allow everyone to take part and support project progress effectively.
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Isle of Wight raising standards and Personal Assistant Hospital Discharge Initiatives
Developing the role of personal assistants (PAs) across the Isle of Wight and providing support to people in hospital.
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Implementing and evaluating the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Falls Pathway
A scheme to reduce the number of falls in older people and prevent hospital admission.
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Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) for care homes
A local out-of-hours alternative to NHS 111 providing nursing and residential care homes with direct priority access to a dedicated clinical assessment service.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) in Lincolnshire
This ambulance service works with strategic partners, clinical commissioning groups and GP practices to reduce the number of journeys to emergency departments.
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Assessing Integration using the SCIE logic model
The SCIE logic model for integrated care provides a visual depiction of how a fully integrated health and care system might be structured and function.
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Expanding and improving carers' breaks
The webinar offered an opportunity to hear more about new guidance on improving carers' breaks.
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Supporting people with learning disabilities to live longer, healthier lives
Exploring some recommendations for older people with learning disabilities through examples and talking about how they may work in practice.
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The quality of life for someone living with dementia is affected by where and how they live. The Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia 2020 (2015) states that, by 2020 we wish to see an increased number of people with dementia being able to live longer in their own homes.
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Strengths-based approach: practice framework and practice handbook
This webinar looked at strengths-based approaches in adult social care; and the new practice framework and handbook that provide valuable learning in the care and support sector.
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Webinar recording: Innovation Network (April 2019)
This webinar provided an opportunity to hear how the network is developing and some early thinking on creating the conditions necessary for the wider adoption of more person-centred community-based approaches.
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The purpose of this webinar, recorded on 29 March 2019, was to introduce a new guide which captures common features of good practice of integration between health, social care and the voluntary and community sector.
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Disabled Facilities Grant and evidencing your impact
The funding for Disabled Facilities Grant is an integral part of the Better Care Fund. But for many, there is a lack of understanding of what it can be used for, how many people are supported and what outcomes are achieved.
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Person-centred mental health transitions for young people webinar
A recording of a webinar held by NICE and SCIE on 13 March 2019.
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Reablement webinar recording. SCIE and the British Red Cross. The latest evidence of what works in reablement. Examples of leading practice, including from the British Red Cross. What good reablement services need.
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Webinar for colleagues working in intermediate care services, be they local authority, clinical commissioning group, or third sector staff.
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Pressure ulcer prevention and management in care homes webinar
Recording of a webinar hosted by SCIE and NICE on Jan 23 2019.
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Using the SCIE Logic Model: Webinar
This online seminar - delivered by SCIE Associate Deborah Rozansky - on behalf of the Better Care Support Team - focused on how local areas can use the SCIE logic model as a tool to plan, monitor and evaluate the success of integrated schemes.
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Video: Using SBAs in social work
Senior staff at Doncaster Children's Services Trust talk about strengths-based approaches to social work.
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Video: Supporting young people
Case study showing the Shared Lives approach to supporting young people in transition.
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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
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The Myth of Next of kin: why you need a lasting power of attorney
This video sets out the importance of Lasting Powers of Attorney and Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment, both part of the Mental Capacity Act, as the best ways to maintain your control over decision-making.
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MCA principle 2: supported decision making
Lorraine Currie, MCA and DoLS Manager, Shropshire Council, defines the MCA's principle 2 and how we support and enable decision-making.
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Named Social Worker: Findings from the evaluation report
Webinar discussing learning from the Named Social Worker programme. The difference the model makes for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs. Participants include Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker.
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Person-centred care for people with learning disabilities
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.
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Breaking down the barriers to co-production (Webinar)
This webinar looks at how to break down barriers to co-production. It draws on experience of co-production in a wide range of settings including local authorities, voluntary organisations and health care to outline the common barriers to co-production and share potential solutions.
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Film telling personal assistants and support workers more about positive ways of working with Disabled People from the LGBTQI+ communities.
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Understanding self-directed support: a film for LGBTQI+ disabled people
Film featuring the experiences of Disabled People from the LGBTQI+ communities who use Self-Directed Support.
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MCA and National Mental Capacity Forum
Baroness Finlay, Chair of the National Mental Capacity Forum, describes the Mental Capacity Act and the five principles that underpin it.
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This video is based up the findings of a new study conducted by the University of Birmingham's Health Services Management Centre and the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Working with 104 older people and 40 local professionals, the research looked at how the older people were admitted to hospital, whether they felt this was the best place for them and what alternatives might have been explored.
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This video explains the key principles of the MCA and how they work in practice. It looks at how the MCA supports everyone to plan for their future, for when they may have impaired capacity.
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The Care Act 2014 is the most significant piece of legislation in our sector since the establishment of the welfare state. This short video gives an overview and discusses the key aspects of the Act.
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Integrated working: an overview
This film says that health and social care often work together with a shared purpose, to improve the lives of people who use services, and their carers. The film looks at five areas of integration: Research, policy, organisational issues, the effect on staff, service users and carers.
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What does integrated working mean to you?
This film says that people often need to use a range of services including health care, social care, housing, and the criminal justice system. Increasingly, organisations and staff are realising the benefits of looking beyond their own service and practice.
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Dignity in care: practical assistance
This film for health and care staff shows a number of innovative schemes across the country that offer practical assistance for people with care and support needs.
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Dignity in care: pain management
This film for health and care staff reminds us that pain levels vary for every individual. It also looks at how alternative therapies, massages and the simple use of moisturiser to keep the skin hydrated, can help to alleviate pain.
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Dignity in care: personal hygiene
This film gives us an insight into people's lives and the way they want to maintain their surroundings. It's important to support people to maintain their personal hygiene and appearance, and their living environment, and to the standards that they want.
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Mental Capacity Act: using the key principles in care planning
The film looks at the five key principles of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and how these can be applied to the care planning process.
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In this film for health and care staff, people who use services and their families, we find out what it might feel like to live with dementia. Viewers will experience a little of what it is like to find yourself in a world that seems familiar and yet doesn't always make sense.
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MCA: Deprivation of liberty (DoL) in light of the Supreme Court judgment: messages for practice
This video for health and care professionals looks at how the 2014 Supreme Court judgment on deprivation of liberty affects people working in the area of mental capacity. It looks in detail at two real-life case studies.
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This film looks at how the Supreme Court judgement affects people's working lives in practice, by looking in detail at two real-life case studies.
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Dignity in care: nutrition for older people at home
Dignity in care can be promoted by providing a choice of nutritious, appetising meals, that meet the needs and choices of individuals, and support with eating where needed. This film highlights the role of good nutritional care and hydration for older people living in their own homes.
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Dignity in care: nutrition for older people in care homes
Dignity in care can be promoted by providing a choice of nutritious, appetising meals, that meet the needs and choices of individuals, and support with eating where needed.This film highlights the role of good nutritional care and hydration for older people living in residential care homes
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Practical approaches to minimising restraint
This video for health and care managers and staff gives two very different fictionalised examples of how good practice in care needs to take account of an individual's human rights.
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Restraint: a human rights issue
In this video for health and care providers and staff, we examine how good practice needs to take account of an individual's human rights. Using a person-centred approach by putting people at the centre of decisions about their care can minimise restraint.
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Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for mental health staff
This accessible five minute film focusses on mental health staff's legal responsibilities to refer people for Independent mental health advocacy, how they can support advocates and the benefits for staff.
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Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) improving equality of access
This accessible seven minute film summarises the issues around ensuring that everyone has access to IMHA services. Primarily aimed at independent mental health advocacy providers the film explains how they can ensure that their service provides equality of access to all service users.
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Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for people who use services
This accessible five minute film provides a simple but authoritative overview of qualifying patients' right to independent mental health advocacy. It also covers how advocates can help and what the benefits are for people who use services.
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Transition from children's to adults' services: Video diaries: Cydnie
Cydnie is 17, and looks after her twin sister. She's currently studying art and design at college.
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Transition from children's to adults' services: Video diaries: Lewis
Lewis is 16, and looks after his sister and mum, who is visually impaired. He's at college doing ‘A' levels.
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Transition from children's to adults' services: Video diaries: Micah & Zanika
Micah 17, and his sister Zanika, 16, share caring duties for their mum and sister. They're both at college, and Zanika hopes to go into childcare.
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Transition from children's to adults' services: Video diaries: Rashann
Rashann is 16, and is at college, where her favourite subject is dance. She looks after her mum.
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Transition from children's to adults' services: Video diaries: Renee
Renee is 18 and looks after her mum, who has Lupus. Renee is now at university studying music production.
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In this film, social care practitioners talk about how their working practice will change as a result of the assessment and eligibility framework in the Care Act 2014. They discuss the key principles of the framework, the impact it will have on individuals and identify some of the challenges in its implementation.
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Fluctuating needs: the Care Act 2014
In this film two people, one with mental health needs, the other with a physical disability, talk about their conditions, assessment, how their needs can fluctuate and the impact this has on the level of care and support they need.
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Personalisation: promoting independence in care homes
This short social care training video is about balancing risks and freedoms for a resident of a care home. It is aimed at frontline care staff, particularly care workers in care homes. Actors have been used in the drama.
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Video: Concept of a strengths-based approach under the Care Act 2014
At the heart of the Care Act is the focus on a ‘Strengths based approach' (or what some people call an ‘asset based approach'). This film looks at strengths-based interventions, which are holistic, person-centred and outcomes-focused in order to improve people's lives.
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End of life and palliative care: thinking about the words we use
This film uses animation and vox pops to make the case for practitioners to communicate how much they care about the person who is dying; as well as being clear about what they're doing to help and support the person and their friends and relatives.
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Dignity in care: social inclusion
This film looks at people doing normal, everyday things like catching the bus or socialising with friends.Social inclusion, in practice, means doing things such as promoting and supporting access to social networks.
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Privacy is a major contributor to providing dignity in care. It can mean making sure that a confidentiality policy is in place; or making issues of privacy and dignity part of staff induction and training.
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Dignity in care: choice and control
This film shows practical examples, of how people with care and support needs can be supported to have choice and control; and with that, dignity in care.
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Dignity in care: communication
Good communication can help people to maintain their dignity. Communication in practice can mean asking people how they prefer to be addressed and to respect their wishes; or giving people information about their care and support in advance.
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Dementia and sensory loss: Video introduction
This dementia training film for health and care staff highlights the importance of finding out if a person with dementia has hearing loss, sight loss or both in order to provide person-centred care.
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This film for health and care staff, people who use services and their families, introduces four people with dementia who are able to share their insights and experiences of living with advancing dementia.
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Older people and quality of life: better life in the community
This video for older people care services and social workers, shows older people with high support needs who live in the community. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated. It is based around the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's A Better Life programme.
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Older people and quality of life: better life in residential care
A film that shows older people with high support needs who live in a care home. They talk about what is important in their lives and how they like to be treated.
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Home care: commissioning for older people with complex needs
This film for commissioners of home care highlights the importance of commissioning good quality person-centred home care for older people with complex needs.
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Whistleblowing: improving organisational practice
A film for health, social care and housing staff and managers, to encourage organisations to create a safe environment for staff to raise concerns openly as part of normal day-to-day practice .
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Getting to know the person with dementia: the importance of memories
This film for health and care staff and managers highlights the importance of getting to know the person with dementia. Learning about their memories and experiences, understanding the person's history and their likes and dislikes. It won its category (Best factual new media) at the Older People Media Awards 2013.
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Integration: clinical commissioning groups and long-term conditions
This film for health and social care commissioners and staff looks at how clinical commissioning groups led by GPs can work with social care to improve outcomes for people with long-term conditions. It presents two case studies of how GP practices are working with social care to improve services.
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Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE): challenges and rewards
This film for Newly Qualified Social Workers, social work employers, supervisors, educators and students, highlights the importance of the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE). Social workers talk about their experiences of the ASYE and the challenges and rewards of this important first year.
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What is SCTV and how can it help you
A promotional film from the Social Care Institute for Excellence's Social Care TV to show the work and lives of people involved in social care, through films on current issues affecting adults, children and families.
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End of life care: supporting staff in care homes
Video for health and care home managers and staff shows how care homes support their staff after the death of a resident. When a resident dies, there is a staff team meeting where people can speak openly about their feelings. Staff are helped to come to terms with the loss of people that they have cared for.
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Care leavers: reflections on being in care
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.
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Care leavers: journeys through the care system
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.
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Care leavers: the making of the care leavers stories project
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.
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Have we got co-production news for you: episode one
This video for social care managers and staff, user led organisations, people who use services and their carers is a fun quiz about co-production. It encourages you to look at the values of co-production and to consider ways in which you can apply them to your work.
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Have we got co-production news for you: episode two
This video for social care managers and staff, user led organisations, people who use services and their carers is a fun quiz about co-production. It encourages you to look at the values of co-production and to consider ways in which you can apply them to your work.
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Partnership working in child protection
This film for children's services, health and care staff and social workers, introduces the key issues and developments in child protection. It looks at how hospitals and local authorities can work together more effectively to protect children and identify and reduce the risk of maltreatment.
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Partnership working in child protection: Cardiff case study
In this video for children's services, health and police, hospital and council staff in Cardiff explain how they are working together to identify potential cases of maltreatment and to protect children.
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Partnership working in child protection: Scunthorpe case study
A short video on how hospital, council and police staff have protected children in Scunthorpe through effective partnership working
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The dementia environment in a care home
This film for care staff, managers and local authorities illustrates how simple changes to create a more dementia-friendly care home environment can have a positive impact on a person living with dementia's emotional wellbeing and independence.
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The dementia environment at home
This film for carers, people with dementia, social workers and care staff shows how simple changes to create a more dementia-friendly home environment can have a positive impact on a person living with dementia's emotional wellbeing and independence.
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Supervision in an integrated setting
This film for health, mental health and social care managers, staff and people who use services shows how the quality of social work in an integrated mental health setting can be enhanced by complementing line management supervision with clinical and professional supervision.
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Getting to know the person with dementia: the impact of diagnosis
This film for health and care staff, managers, people with dementia and those who know them, is about the importance of getting to know the person with dementia, learning about their memories and experience, understanding their history and their likes and dislikes.
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Enhancing staff development through supervision
This film for social care supervisors and staff is about how staff skills are enhanced through supervision for staff working in care homes for older people.
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Supervision: supporting staff and improving care
This film for social care supervisors and staff shows how the effective supervision of staff can improve the quality of care and outcomes for people in a supported living setting.
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The role of carers and families in reablement
Watch this video to hear how important it is for families and carers contribute to reablement.
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The business case for reablement
This film for health and adult social care commissioners introduces reablement. Watch the video to find out more.
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Transition from child and adolescent to adult mental services: a young person's perspective
This film for adult and adolescent and child mental health services shows three young people describing their mental health problems and their transition to adult services. The film shows services managed by health include a transition clinic, and a peer support group and a counselling service run by social services.
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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.
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Social work education case study: Anglia Ruskin University
In this film for social work educators and students, people who use services, carers and academics describe participation in a social work degree. It looks at how users and carers are involved in the course, the benefits students get from contact with them and what users and carers gain from the experience.
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Social work education participation: access, payment and support
This video for social work educators and staff and people who use services looks at the practical arrangements that need to be made around accessibility, support and payments to ensure that users and carers can participate in social work education and be rewarded for their input.
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Social work education participation: what's happening in four universities?
This video for social work educators and students describes the ways in which people who use services and carers participate in social work degree courses at four universities. It looks at the benefits user and carer involvement brings to the courses and how they gain from the experience of participation.
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Social work education participation: user and carer participation in social work
This video details the requirements on universities teaching the social work degree to involve people who use services and carers in their courses. It shows users and carers describing how this leads to improved practice, and students explaining the value of learning about the realities of people's lives.
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Social work education case study: Bucks New University
Video for social work educators and students shows people who use services, carers and academics describing participation in the social work degree at Bucks New University. Looks at benefits students get from contact with users and carers and what users and carers gain from the experience.
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Social work education case study: Kingston University and St George's University London
This video for social work educators and students shows service users, carers and academics describe participation in the social work degree. It looks at the benefits students get from contact with users and carers and what users and carers gain from the experience.
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Social work education participation: hopes for the future
Academics, policy-makers, people who use services and carers describe their hopes for the future development of user and carer participation in social work education in this film for social work educators and students and service users.
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Social work education case study: Leeds University
This film for social work educators and students looks at the different ways that people who use services and carers are involved in the social work degree at Leeds University. It shows the benefits students get from contact with users and carers and what users and carers gain from the experience.
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End of life care: why it is essential to coordinate care
This video looks at an innovative scheme run by the South of Tyne and Wear Palliative Care Coordinating Centre from Marie Curie's Newcastle Hospice. The Centre offers people at the end of life a coordinated health and care package and keeps everyone involved in their care fully informed.
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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.
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Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions: the headlines
This film looks at the realities behind the headlines about older people and their use of hospital beds, and considers what steps could be taken to help avoid unnecessary admissions.
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Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions among older people: residential care
This film explores the steps that care homes can take to reduce the need for hospital admissions amongst residents despite their complex health care needs and high levels of dependency.
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Avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions: the Wandsworth community ward
This film presents the Wandsworth Community Ward initiative, and explores how it helps keep older people out of hospital through contributions from team members, strategic managers and service users and carers.
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Quality in social care: what is excellence
In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider extracts from SCIE's Social Care TV films to help understand quality and excellence in social care. The panel considers the quality of social care in different settings and with different people, to see how excellence can be achieved.
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Quality in social care: achieving excellence in home care
In this video, we see examples of excellence in support offered to older people, people with learning disabilities and people with physical disabilities in their own homes. Focus is on the relationship between staff and the people they support because getting that right is fundamental to excellent care.
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Quality in social care: achieving excellence in care homes for older people
In this video, people who use services and social care academics consider the quality of care and support offered in care homes. The panel discusses how standards of care across the sector can be raised so that all older people can experience the quality of care demonstrated in this care home.
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Quality in social care: achieving excellence in supported living services
In this video, we see examples of excellence in supported living settings. It shows people with learning disabilities and mental health problems finding employment, developing skills, and becoming more independent, and looks at the role of social care staff in supporting people to improve their lives.
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Personal budgets: micro enterprises
This film for social care commissioners, people who use services and carers, and user-led organisations focuses on the work of micro-providers and demonstrates how their approach can be very flexible, creative and responsive to individual needs and preferences, enabling a move away from traditional services.
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Personal budgets: risk enablement and mental health
This film for adult social care commissioners and staff showcases the work of Stockport Council and Pennine Care NHS Trust. It established a panel for discussing final support plans for people considered to be at risk as part of its risk enablement strategy for personal budgets and mental health.
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End of life care: dying at home
This video for care managers and staff highlights two services which support people to die at home – one is in Lancashire and the other is a service for the Bangladeshi and Bengali communities in London.
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End of life care: what matters to the person who's dying
This video describes the meaning and importance of holistic assessment in ensuring people at the end of life are treated with dignity and respect
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End of life care: why supporting family carers is vital
In this video, we hear about Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice's family support service for the families and carers of people who are at the end of their lives. We hear from Benita who looks after her mother and has regular support and Trevor, a bereaved man, who found counselling helpful in dealing with his grief.
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Integration: Health and Wellbeing Boards
This film for health and social care commissioners and staff looks at the establishment of a shadow health and wellbeing board and follows its approach to joint working and providing joined-up services to people who use services and carers.
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Personal budgets: health and social care integration
This film for health and social care commissioners and staff looks at how Kent County Council is approaching integrating personal budgets from health and social care as part of their work as a personal health budget pilot site. It features service users and carers whose lives will be affected by the change.
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Therapeutic approaches to residential child care in Northern Ireland
This video shows how children's homes in Northern Ireland have introduced training in 'therapeutic approaches' for their residential child care staff. Find out how the approaches help staff gain a better understanding of how children's experiences affect them.
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Commissioning for personalisation: London
This video for social care commissioners looks at two inner London authorities where personalisation has led to a total rethink of commissioning. It highlights how the councils have reformulated their commissioning processes allowing people who use the services to be resources in their own right.
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Commissioning for personalisation: Dorset
This film for social workers and social care commissioners and staff highlights initiatives funded by Dorset County Council Innovation Fund. The fund provides start-up money for small independent providers to develop a range of services which local people with personal budgets might purchase.
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Prevention: Promoting wellbeing
Watch this video to hear a discussion on how to improve or maintain older people's independence, health and wellbeing.
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End of life care: achieving dignity for those with dementia
This video illustrates the steps involved in supporting a person with dementia to die well. It is crucial for health and care staff to recognise when they enter the final weeks and days of their life and to respond with person-centred care and support for them and their family.
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Reablement: maintaining independence
Hear how people are benefiting from falls prevention service and exercise classes.
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Safeguarding adults: helping people to protect themselves from crime
In this video, older people who were robbed by distraction burglars and rogue traders talk about the shock, fear and deep disappointment such experiences can cause. Care staff can help older people to protect against burglary and feel more confident at home.
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Working with people with autism: the autistic perspective
In this training video, co-produced with National Autistic Society and Research Autism, we see how Scott, a man with autism and learning disabilities, and Marie, a professor with Asperger's Syndrome, learn to make sense of society, with the support of colleagues and family members.
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In this film for adult social services and social care commissioners and staff, we meet Doug, a gay man with physical disabilities who is in residential accommodation. Doug believes that a cultural shift and change in attitudes in social care is vital to provide relevant care for LGBT people.
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In this film for adult social services and health and social care commissioners and staff, we meet Alison, a lesbian with physical disabilities and mental health needs. We learn that training is key to enable good service provision and for social workers to feel confident in providing support for LGBT individuals.
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In this video for social care commissioners and staff, we meet Richard who was diagnosed with a learning disability at an early age. Richard explains his confusion around his sexuality and how he was not provided with adequate sex education. The video highlights the need for trained workers in sexuality and learning disabilities.
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In this film for health and social care commissioners and adult social services, we meet Nick. Nick was born female, but was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, meaning that that he had the gendered mind of a man. He and his partner adopted two children. Nick now raises awareness of LGBT and transgender adoption.
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A social care training video on the theme of working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. In this video we meet Roger who talks about his experiences of care provided to a friend in residential care and hospice care provided for his partner.
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Working together to promote independence
This video for social care managers and staff shows how principles of the SCIE/NICE guidance on promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children are working in practice. It shows two schemes for care leavers which are helping them move to independence.
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What is social work? Services for older people
This film for social workers and social work lecturers and students focuses on the very rewarding, diverse but complex role of a social workers working in an adult's services team. It also looks at the routes into social work.
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What is social work? Emergency Duty Team
This video for social workers and students focuses on the very rewarding, diverse but complex role of a social worker within an Emergency Duty Team. Cases range from child protection to mental health assessments.
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What is social work? Children and families
This video for social workers and students follows the complex and challenging yet rewarding work of a children's services social worker. It looks at the complexity of cases that children's social workers deal with on daily basis from family support to child protection cases.
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This video for social care commissioners and staff shows people with experience of personalised services describing the impact that personalisation has had on their lives. It also looks at what personalisation means for social care workers.
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This video clearly illustrates what person-centred care is about, emphasises the importance of choice and control and introduces the idea that person-centred care is relevant for all adults and older people using social care services - whatever their needs or setting. People with experience of personalised services explain the impact that person-centred care has had on their lives. The video also looks at what person-centred care will mean for social care workers.
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This film for health, care and voluntary staff explores some of the risk factors, such as poor housing, that can lead to poor mental health in BME communities. It focuses on early intervention and prevention, which can delay the need for more costly interventions.
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This film for adults and mental health teams, social workers and managers shows how language and cultural barriers and lack of information can make it difficult to access services for the Chinese community in Barnet – and what is being done to address this.
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A social care training video on the theme of Mental health and wellbeing of elders in black and minority ethnic communities. This film addresses the significant link between housing and mental wellbeing, which service providers often fail to recognise.
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In this video, we hear in plain English the science and physiology of dementia and differentiate between the types of dementia. We learn how it affects the brain, which then affects behaviours. Use the video to make the case for ensuring biomedical research continues into the causes and treatment of dementia.
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This video for social care commissioners and staff describes some of the ethical concerns of using telecare and offers practical advice about overcoming them and ensuring people who use it gain the maximum benefit offered by telecare technology.
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Telecare - providing more personalised care
This film is for health and social care commissioners, and people thinking about using telecare for their support needs and their supporters. It demonstrates a range of the available technology and shows how it has helped to maintain people's independence, reducing their reliance on carers.
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Supporting carers: the social worker
This film for social workers and carers focuses on social worker Nicola. She introduces us to Caroline, who cares for her autistic, severely learning disabled son. Nicola demonstrates how considering the needs of both the service user and the carer can have a positive impact on the whole family.
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Supporting carers: the commissioner
This film for social care commissioners and staff focuses on Hertfordshire County Council Adult Services. It features Mari Stevenson who talks about her personal experiences of caring for her daughter who is diabetic and has Down's syndrome. Hertfordshire has achieved Beacon status for its work with carers.
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Supporting carers: the cared-for person
This film for social care commissioners, staff, people who need services and carers follows Linda, who needs constant care. Linda found out she was entitled to direct payments. She used the money to pay her friends to be her personal assistants.
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Serious case reviews: piloting the SCIE model
This film for children's services and serious case review panels looks at the pilots of SCIE's new systems approach for conducting case reviews of multi-agency safeguarding and child protection work. Care and probation staff describe what it was like taking part and how the experience has improved their practice.
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Safeguarding children: a new approach to case reviews
This film for staff involved in serious case reviews and children's services shows SCIE's ‘systems approach' for conducting case reviews of multi-agency safeguarding and child protection work. It can be used not only to learn from tragedies but also to facilitate learning from success.
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Safeguarding adults: looking out for each other to prevent abuse
This video shows how good communication with older people can improve safeguarding. In residential care it is important that staff take the time to talk to residents and to listen to their concerns. Two community projects demonstrate how people are encouraged to look out for each other and to report any concerns.
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Safeguarding adults: lessons from the murder of Steven Hoskin
This film for adult social services, health, and police shows the story of Steven Hoskin, a man who was tortured and murdered by people who targeted him because of his learning disabilities. It demonstrates that partnership between agencies and procedures for sharing information are vital to adult safeguarding.
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Safeguarding adults: an independent life after abuse
The video focuses on Philip who suffered physical, financial and emotional abuse in the family home for many years. He has learning disabilities and cerebral palsy. When Philip finally disclosed the abuse, he was supported to leave the family home. He now lives a full and independent life.
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Safeguarding adults: teaching people to protect themselves
This video shows how training for people with learning disabilities can help them to protect themselves from abuse. They are helped to recognise it and to understand that they can and should say no. The training has been adapted for older people, people with physical disabilities and people who misuse substances.
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Mental Capacity Act: making decisions about money
A social care training video for care staff on the theme of mental capacity. Roger is a man with learning disabilities living in a supported living service. An assessment of his mental capacity to make different financial decisions is being undertaken by a social worker.
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This film for care managers and workers who come into contact with asylum seekers and refugees is the story of Azeldin, a Libyan who came to Britain as an asylum seeker. The film shows work being done to support and advise asylum seekers and refugees.
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Mental Capacity Act: respecting the right to make 'unwise' decisions
A short film depicting scenes in a domestic setting between an older man and his domiciliary care worker. The film introduces the principles of the Mental Capacity Act in relation to a financial decision.
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Early onset dementia: living at home with nursing support
Training film for carers and care staff about Janet, who was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 58. Her partner Jim illustrates the effects of a very rapid deterioration, plus the need for skilled, experienced support for carers – in this case provided by an Admiral Nurse.
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This film for social care commissioners and people who use services explores how service user and carer participation has become an important part of how adult social care services are developed and delivered. It highlights the jigsaw model of participation: Culture, Structure, Practice and Review.
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Watch this video to learn more about how reablement supports people to regain their independence.
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Mental Capacity Act: the role of the IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocate)
Video showing the role of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) – includes communicating with the person who lacks capacity. Also shows why carers must be involved in best interests decisions.
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Personalisation for someone with a physical disability
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.
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Personalisation for someone with a learning disability
This film for health and social commissioners and staff introduces a young woman who has Angelman Syndrome and lives with her family in a rural setting. Personal budgets have made a big difference to her life allowing the family to function better and preventing her from going into residential care.
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Personalisation for older people: supported housing
Social care training video showing how personalisation can work for older people living in purpose-built supported accommodation.
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Personalisation for older people: residential care
This film for social care and care home commissioners and staff, is introduced by the manager of a residential care home for older people with dementia who talks about the importance of understanding the individual, their interests, background and personal history to maintain dignity and wellbeing.
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Personalisation for older people: living at home
This video for social care commissioners and staff, people who use services and personal assistants shows Anne MacFarlane, an older disabled woman and disability rights campaigner. She talks about accessible transport, independent living and dignity. Personalisation is about being able to do the ordinary.
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Personalisation - making it happen: user-led organisations
This film for social care and health commissioners and staff, and people who use services and their carers, highlights the importance of user-led organisations (ULOs) in delivering personalisation. ULOs support people to have independence, choice and control over their lives.
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Personalisation - making it happen: the social worker's perspective
This film for social workers and students looks at the work of a personal budget team in Hull. It shows how the team works with people who use services to provide personalised care. Social workers talk about their new ways of working and about the benefits for both them and the people who use their services.
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Personalisation - making it happen: black and minority ethnic (BME) communities
This video for health and social care commissioners and staff looks at Oldham's Link Service, which offers advice, guidance and support to people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities who use services. Highlights importance of communication in understanding cultural and religious needs of BME communities.
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Dementia: participation in development of dementia care
This film for social care commissioners, voluntary organisations and carers highlights how they all have a role to play in enabling the person with dementia to share their knowledge and experience for the benefit of others.
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Parental mental health and child welfare - the practitioners’ perspective
This film for staff in mental health and children's services from all sectors brings together professionals from health, social care and education. Each professional has experience of dealing with parental mental health issues in the voluntary sector, in education, in community mental health and in family centres.
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Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
The film for mental health staff and children's services describes the experience of a young woman who looks after her mum and how agencies work together to improve services for parents with mental health problems and their children.
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Parental mental health and child welfare - a mother’s story
Learn about one mother's experience of seeking mental health support for herself and her family. This video sets out in practice how different services worked together with the family to provide the support that was needed.
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Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: independent living
This film for social care managers and staff shows how services and families can work together to improve the lives of people with behaviour that challenges. The film illustrates that, with good support, people with challenging behaviour and severe learning disabilities can enjoy independent, fulfilling lives.
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Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: improving services
This film for social care staff and managers looks at how services can be improved for people with behaviours that challenge. It explores a key factor to avoiding or reducing the challenging behaviour of people with learning disabilities; the people who support them need to provide better communication.
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Living with young onset dementia
This video for dementia health and care managers and staff shows two people who were diagnosed with dementia in their 50s. They are both supported by the Forget Me Not Centre, which provides counselling and support to younger people with dementia and takes a reablement approach.
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Living in a care home: a positive outcome for a person with dementia
Use this video to convince people of the value of high quality care homes for people with dementia. It can be used for training to help improve practices in any setting. It highlights the key areas of improving quality of life for someone with dementia and it shows what good care looks like, which can be comforting.
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Late-onset dementia: early diagnosis and drug treatment
In this video for GPs and care home and domiciliary care staff, see how John and his wife cope with the challenges raised by his diagnosis of dementia. Their account reinforces the need for the diagnosis to be handled sensitively by doctors, but also how an early diagnosis can bring positive effects.
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Mental Capacity Act: Making 'best interests' decisions
Short training video drama for care staff in a residential school depicting scenes between a young man with severe learning disabilities, and his key worker and social worker. Introduces MCA principles and consultation in best interests decision-making.
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This film for social care commissioners and staff highlights two innovative approaches to meeting people's accommodation needs. Shared Lives enables people to offer accommodation and support in their home to people who are unable to live independently. Home Share is a simple way of helping people to help each other.
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This film for care workers who come into contact with gypsy travellers introduces Henry Chapman, a gypsy who is now a care worker mainly with rural gypsy communities. He helps families with land disputes, eviction and health issues. He talks about how his background brings empathy and understanding to his work.
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Disabled children and young people: improving short breaks
This film for parents, carers and disabled young people looks at how short breaks can be transformed through focusing on an all-encompassing service to disabled children, their families and carers. It highlights the importance of enabling children and young people to make decisions about their short breaks.
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Disabled children and young people: extending participation
This film for children's health and social care commissioners and staff shows how in 2008, Bradford City Council became a pathfinder council for the Aiming Higher for Disabled Children programme. It shows how meaningful participation of children and young people can improve service design and delivery.
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Disabled children and young people: enhancing access to leisure services
This film for commissioners of services for disabled children and young people focuses on an innovative approach to widening access to leisure services and equipment. The film examines how universal services can be effectively upgraded to improve outcomes for disabled children and young people.
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Personal budgets: experiences of a disabled person
This film for disabled people and care workers who support them shows Anne, a disabled person, travelling around London by taxi and bus. She discusses the issues involved in employing personal assistants and her own work to counter misguided cultural perceptions of disabled people and bring about positive change.
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Children of prisoners: release
This video for family support and children's services, prison and probation services and families of prisoners considers the particular difficulties families can face following release. These are often overlooked and unexpected. However, this may be when the family needs most support.
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Children of prisoners: custody
This film for probation officers, children's trusts, prison staff and teachers shows how realistic information and keeping in contact with a parent in custody can reduce anxiety. It considers the support that helps a child manage their distress, especially when imprisonment of a parent can mean stigma and hardship.
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This film for social workers, probation officers and family support workers shows how children are affected when a parent or adult family member is arrested – especially when it happens at home. Families talk from their own experience about the traumatic and sometimes lasting effect on children.
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This film for young people in care and those who work with them tells the story of Colin, a care experienced young person. Colin had problems with violence and maintaining positive contact with his family. Colin built his confidence and trust in those around him after forming a strong relationship with key workers.
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Being heard and getting support
This video for young people's care services shows how principles about listening to young people and supervising foster carers of the NICE/SCIE guidance are working in practice. A case study highlights how professional supervision for foster carers can make a real impact on the care they offer.
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Working with people with autism: the professionals
This film for social care staff shows a social worker supporting a young man with autism with his transition to adult services, and a care worker in a day setting, discussing effective support for people with autism.
