Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Skills Academy for Social Care
We want to transform the quality of leadership, management and commissioning in social care in England. To achieve this, we are dedicated to supporting and promoting excellent learning and training.
Skills for Care
Skills for Care is the employer led authority on the training standards and development needs of more than 1.6 million adult social care staff in England providing over £25 million in funding to support improved training and qualifications for managers and staff.
Skills for Care & Development
Skills for Care and Development is the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for people working in early years, children and young people’s services, and those working in social work and social care for children and adults in the UK
Skills for Health
Skills for Health is the Sector Skills Council for health. We help the whole UK health sector develop a more skilled and flexible workforce. Our proven solutions help improve not just productivity but also the quality of health and healthcare.
Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland
We regulate, inspect and support improvement of care, social work and child protection services for the benefit of the people who use them. Various kinds of organisations provide the services we regulate: local authorities, individuals, businesses, charities and voluntary organisations.
Social Issues Research Centre
SIRC is an independent, not-for-profit organisation based in Oxford, UK. We conduct research on a wide range of social topics and combine robust qualitative and quantitative methods with innovative analysis and thinking. We also conduct continuous monitoring of social and cultural trends
Social Policy Research Unit
The Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York has an international reputation for excellence in research in social policy, especially health and social care, poverty, welfare and social work.
Social Research Association
The Social Research Association provides a forum for people working in a diverse range of settings and in different subject specialities, to form wider contacts, exchange views and information, and pursue issues of common concern.
Social Research Unit
The Social Research Unit is an independent charity dedicated to improving the health and development of children, primarily in Europe and North America
Social Work Education Committee
The Social Work Education Committee (SWEC) represents higher education institutions to government departments and other organisations across the four nations of the United Kingdom. It represents UK Schools of Social Work on the international scene.
Social Work Ethics
The International Association of Schools of Social Work, IASSW, is the worldwide association of schools of social work, other tertiary level social work educational programmes, and social work educators. The IASSW promotes the development of social work education throughout the world, develops standards to enhance quality of social work education, encourages international exchange, provides forums for sharing social work research and scholarship, and promotes human rights and social development through policy and advocacy activities.
Social workers fear service cuts risk children's lives
Some 88% of social workers think cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk, a survey suggests.
Social workers warn over cuts threat
Social workers are warning that cuts to services and growing case loads are leaving vulnerable children without the protection they need. Nearly five years after the death of Baby Peter Connelly, a survey of social workers suggests many are worried about unmanageable amounts of work.
SOLACE
SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers) is the representative body for senior strategic managers working in the public sector. The Society promotes public sector management excellence and provides professional development for its Members who come from all areas of the public sector
Southampton Solent University
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St George's University of London
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Stockport College
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Swansea University
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