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Fostering: Inspections of independent fostering agencies

This document outlines the framework for the inspection of independent fostering agencies and sets out the areas that inspectors will evaluate in order to make their judgements from September 2013...

Framework and evaluation schedule for the inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers

This document sets out the framework for the inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers. These inspections are conducted under section...

Nursing homes, residential homes and domicilary care establishments

This report outlines the findings of research commissioned by Skills for Care into the employment of care staff in the social care sector in England, with a particular focus on what helps to attract...

Poverty and Ethnicity in Wales

This report explores the relationship between poverty, place and ethnicity in Wales. There is a well-established relationship in Wales between poverty and ethnicity, but most research into the...

Addressing poverty through local governance

This review explores how place-based mechanisms such as procurement and co-production can be used to address poverty. The review is based on the premise that in increasingly austere times, local...

State of the Nation 2013: social mobility and poverty in Great Britain

This is the Commission’s first annual State of the Nation report. The Commission was created by the UK Government in 2012 as an independent and statutory body to monitor and report on what is...

Social care: Ofsted report 2012-2013

The past decade has seen a series of high profile inquiries and reviews following the deaths or serious injuries of children. This has triggered a major programme of reform, some of which is only now...

Too young to fail:Giving all children a fair start in life

Too many children fail before they’ve even started in life. This is in large part because of an enduring ‘achievement gap’: the gap in outcomes between disadvantaged children (in this country...

Personal Well-being Across the UK, 2012/13

Key Points • Personal well-being improved in the UK between 2011/12 and 2012/13. Ratings for life satisfaction and feeling that the things we do in life are worthwhile increased on average, whilst...

Helpline highlight 2012/13: More people speaking out to protect children

During the past year the NSPCC received an unprecedented number of contacts to our helpline from adults worried about children. Almost 51,000 people, 15 per cent more than the previous year, got in...

Future ambitions for hospice care: our mission and our opportunity

The aim of the Commission into the Future of Hospice Care is to help hospices look ahead so they can anticipate and meet the changing and growing needs of the communities they serve. Set up by Help...

Child death reviews: improving the use of evidence

The concept of child death reviews is not a new one; systems for review have been set in place in a number of countries including in the US where reviews were established in some States in the late...

‘Turning the welfare state upside down?’ Developing a new adult social care offer

For many commentators, the adult social care system is fundamentally broken. This is not the fault of current workers, managers or policy makers – but there is strong consensus that we still have a...

Good governance for prison health in the 21st century

Currently, either the justice ministry or the interior ministry is responsible for prison health in the vast majority of Member States of the WHO European Region. The right to health of prisoners is...

Second report of the Inter‑Departmental Ministerial Group on Human Trafficking

This is the second report of the Inter- Departmental Ministerial Group on human trafficking. The report provides an assessment of human trafficking in the UK building on the first report of the Group...

Review of the Adult Care Homes Sector

This paper summarises the findings from the Focus on Enforcement review of the adult care home sector. It examines the impact and experiences of regulatory enforcement, and is one of a wider series...

2013 National Reform Programme (NRP) from a child poverrty and well-being perspective

Overall the 2013 National Reform Programmes (NRPs) show some modest improvements from a child poverty and well-being perspective compared to the 2012 NRPs. However, in most NRPs the attention given...

Local Healthwatch outcomes and impact development tool

This outcome and impact development tool has been designed to promote the development of local Healthwatch as an independent organisation that can effectively and efficiently deliver its functions...

Good practice advice for social workers and their line managers working with people with learning disabilities who are distressed or whose behaviour challenges those around them

BASW and TCSW were asked by the DH to develop practice advice for social workers working with people who are distressed or whose behaviour challenges those around them. This was following the serious...

Talking to your children about legal highs and club drugs: A parent's handbook

This guidebook aims to provide practical, useful tips for parents wishing to talk to their children about legal highs and club drugs. A survey of young people conducted for the guide found that 58%...

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