Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
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 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 Perspectives Network for Mental Health
The Social Perspectives Network is a unique coalition of service users / survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people’s recovery.
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.
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 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.
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 Work History Network
The Social Work History Network (SWHN) is an informal group of social workers (some retired), historians, archivists, researchers and teachers in higher education, social work policy makers and practitioners.
Social Work Reform Board
The Social Work Reform Board (SWRB) was set up to take forward the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force for the reform of social work, led by the social work sector itself. It unites employers of social workers, educators, regulators, service users, government and the social work profession itself, to bring about social work reform.
Social Work Task Force
Reporting directly to Ministers in the Department of Health (DH) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the Social Work Task Force is being supported by a Joint Unit across the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The purpose of the taskforce is to drive and deliver a cross Government Social Work Reform Programme to improve frontline practice and management.
