Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
Royal College of Nursing
The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is responsible for training and examining paediatricians in the UK. The College has over 13,500 members in the UK and abroad and sets standards for professional and postgraduate medical education.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
A detailed report 'Our Invisible Addicts'. London: RCP
Runnymede Trust
Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank. We generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement
Save the Children
Save the Children works in 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Scope
We're all about changing society for the better, so that disabled people and their families can have the same opportunities as everyone else. We work with disabled people and their families at every stage of their lives. We offer practical support – from information services to education and everyday care. We challenge assumptions about disability, we influence decision makers and we show what can be possible. Everything we do is about creating real and lasting positive change in individual lives and in the world around us. We believe that together we can create a better society.
Secure Accomodation Network
The Secure Accommodation Network represents and promotes the work of Secure Children's Homes in England and Wales
Sense
Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. Deafblindness refers to a combination of sight and hearing impairment which causes difficulties in a range of areas including communication, access to information and mobility. At Sense we offer high-quality, flexible services across the UK, using skilled staff and a dedicated network of volunteers. We work with a wide range of deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people, as well as those who have a single-sensory impairment with additional needs. We take pride in offering specialist services built around the wishes of each person we support and enabling them to be as independent as possible. We work with children, young people, adults and older people with a progressive sight and hearing loss, offering a range of housing, educational and leisure opportunities.
Shaping Our Lives
Shaping Our Lives National User Network’s vision is of a society which is equal and fair where all people have the same opportunities, choices, rights and responsibilities – a society where people have choice and control over the way they live and the support services they use.
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 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 Code of Practice for International Recruitment
The social care workforce in England numbers around one million workers and 95,000 were born outside the UK. The sector will continue to rely on recruitment of overseas workers to make sure that social care services can continue to provide essential support for children and adults in need throughout England.
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 Care Workforce Research Unit
The Social Care Workforce Research Unit (SCWRU) is a multi-disciplinary national centre for original research into issues relating to the social care workforce. The Unit exists to develop research knowledge and to disseminate the findings to policymakers, service providers, employers and social care service user and carer groups.
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 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 Platform
The Social Platform and its members are committed to the advancement of the principles of equality, solidarity, non discrimination and the promotion and respect of fundamental rights for all within Europe and in particular the European Union.
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.
