Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Sefton Council
Health and Social Care
Sheffield City Council
Help and support for adults of all ages, carers, children and families.
Sheltand Islands Council
Social Care, Social Work and Health
Shropshire County Council
Health and Social Care
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 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 Association
SCA is a UK organisation of individuals and corporate organisations involved in social care. This means all service user groups, children and adults. This means all job roles – Supporting Caring and Assisting people to live the kind of life they want with choice and independence.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) improves the lives of people who use care services by sharing knowledge about what works. We are an independent charity working with adults, families and children's social care and social work services across the UK. We also work closely with related services such as health care and housing.
Social Determinants of Health
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries.
Social Services Improvement Agency
It was set up to support local authorities increase the pace of improvement and promote excellence within social services
Social Services Knowledge Scotland
SSKS is a gateway to a wealth of information and learning materials to support practitioners in day to day work and in learning.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Health and Social Care
Somerset County Council Adult Social Care
Adult Social Care supports adults of a working age and older people who have disabilities, mental health problems, a sensory loss or general frailty. Our aim is to actively promote independence and choice. We help people to live in their own homes for as long as possible. When this is no longer possible we help people to choose a good quality care home.
Somerset County Council Childrens Services
Children's Social Care Children’s Social Care has a duty to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and young people. It provides services to children and young people assessed as being ‘in need’ for a variety of reasons.
South Ayrshire Council
Social Care and Health
South Lanarkshire Council
Social Care and Health
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
Children, adults & families
Southampton City Council Adult Social Care
We provide a range of services for adults with long and short term health and care needs. Together with the primary care trust, the NHS and voluntary organisations we work to make sure that you have access to the services that you need to live as independently as possible. We also offer advice and support to carers and relatives of people receiving, or in need of, our services.
Southampton City Council Childrens Services
This section of the site offers information about health and social care services that we provide for children, young people and their families.
SSIA: Improving Social Care in Wales
It was set up to support local authorities increase the pace of improvement and promote excellence within social services. Hosted by the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) the Agency is a partnership enterprise between the Association, ADSS Cymru and the Welsh Assembly Government. The Agency comprises a central team based in Cardiff, along with improvement managers, focused on Social Services improvement across Wales. The work of the SSIA, funded by a Welsh Assembly Government Improvement Fund, has a strong emphasis on: •improving service delivery and enabling officers and members to better understand their performance; •enabling councils to improve their decisions and to make changes to services based on a better understanding and interpretation of evidence based practice; •increasing council's knowledge of their own performance through self assessment and through the design and implementation of workable local solutions for improvement; •Councils working collectively to enhance the sharing of good practice to ensure that vulnerable groups within their communities receive first class services.
