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Better home care for older people: A quick guide for people who arrange their own home care

80% of people using home care services are over 65 and the number of people funding their own care is expected to grow over the coming years. You will find this quick guide useful if you are paying...

Improving oral health for adults in care homes: A quick guide for care home managers

More than half of older adults who live in care homes have tooth decay, compared to 40% of over 75s who do not live in care homes.

Child- and Parent-reported Outcomes and Experience from Child and Young People’s Mental Health Services 2011–2015

The aim of this report is to share analysis of the routinely collected data related to outcomes for children seen across services taking part in CYP IAPT between April 2011 and December 2015. The...

Children in Custody 2015–16: An analysis of 12–18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experiences in secure training centres and young offender institutions

As part of the inspection process for secure training centres (STCs) and young offender institutions (YOIs), HM Inspectorate of Prisons conducts surveys of the children who are detained. These...

Implications of reductions to public spending for LGB and T people and services

This report presents findings from qualitative research conducted by NatCen Social Research (NatCen) on behalf of UNISON. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into whether, and in what ways,...

UK Initial Report On the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This report describes how the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘the Convention’) is being implemented in the UK. It should be read with the UK Common Core Document, which...

The cost of late intervention: EIF analysis 2016

Early intervention is about identifying and responding to signals of risk for children and families before problems become more difficult to reverse, from conception to young adulthood. Early...

Unlocking the power of local reflections on the new Place Leadership

As our economy becomes increasingly globalised, our public policy response needs to become more localised. Global phenomena and national decisions have local consequences. To ensure places are not...

Attitudes Towards LGBT in Scottish Education

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have made fundamental contributions to our society, our history, our literature and our culture. Despite this, many LGBT people are still...

Supporting long-term foster care placements in the independent sector

Match Foster Care (Match) is a small independent fostering provider (IFP) in the West Midlands. Based on their experience of providing long-term placements to various Local Authorities (LAs), Match...

KEEP Standard evaluation

The KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Carers Supported) Standard programme is a group training programme for foster and kinship carers with a child aged 5-12 in placement, which aims to improve the...

RESuLT training: Evaluation report

RESuLT (which represents Residential and Social Learning Theory) is a team-based training programme for children’s homes which has been developed by the National Implementation Service (NIS) based at...

North London Children’s Efficiency Programme (NLCEP) residential innovation project: partnership evaluation

The Department for Education, under the Innovation Fund in Children’s Social Care, funded the North London Children’s Efficiency Programme (NLCEP) to provide a residential unit model for children in...

The evaluation of the Mockingbird Family Model

This project aimed to introduce the Mockingbird Family Model (MFM) into 8 fostering services in England. MFM is an approach to supporting foster carers and children and young people placed with them...

Breaking Through: Moving on from Child Sexual Exploitation

Despite widespread concerns about child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the UK, the voices of those who have experienced this often get lost or overlooked in debates about how to respond. In recent...

The future of commissioning

Local commissioning of health services through clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the NHS in England is still relatively new. Yet, since its arrival it has had to continually adapt and respond...

PSNC Briefing 055/16: The Enhanced Health in Care Homes care model

In January 2015, the NHS invited individual organisations and partnerships, including those with the voluntary sector to apply to become vanguard sites for the New Models of Care Programme, one of...

“Living is more important than just surviving”: Listening to what children think about food insecurity

Nourish Scotland was asked by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland to listen to what children think about food insecurity. In this report we use the phrase food insecurity and by...

Local Health and Care Planning: Menu of preventative interventions

The MoI outlines evidence-based, preventative public health interventions that can help improve the health of the population and reduce health and care service demand in the short to medium term...

Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee Children

This thematic report draws together returns from over 100 local authorities in England and supplements this with national data and a literature review to provide an insight into the characteristics...

Community Pharmacy 2016/17 and beyond: The Pharmacy Access Scheme

This document sets out the rules and eligibility criteria for the Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS). The PhAS is one of the elements of the Community Pharmacy reform package to be implemented from...

What children are telling us about bullying

Thousands of children and young people contact Childline every year for advice and support on how to deal with bullying. It is one of the most common issues that children talk to us about. In 2015/16...

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report

This report examines children’s media literacy. It provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information...

The work of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was established by the Home Secretary in July 2014. It faced serious challenges in its early days with the resignation of two Chairs, before...

Public Perceptions and Experiences of Community-Based End of Life Care Initiatives: A Qualitative Research Report

This report is intended for commissioners of end of life care services, to support new ways of commissioning through using public health approaches to build compassionate communities. To date, there...

Changing risk behaviours and promoting cognitive health in older adults

An alarming proportion of mid-life and older adults are physically inactive, smoke, misuse alcohol, have poor eating patterns and are socially isolated despite growing evidence these behaviours can...

Meeting the need: What makes a 'good' JSNA for mental health or dementia?

Centre for Mental Health investigated what makes a ‘good’ joint strategic needs assessment for mental health or dementia. We visited five local areas to understand how they produced their needs...

The State of Social Care in Great Britain in 2016: Our call for urgent action on social care

Good social care changes people’s lives, enabling them to live independently and participate actively in society. In addition to helping people with everyday activities like washing, dressing and...

Older People’s Care Survey

Older people’s care is vitally important to all of us. Everyone has the right to safe, comfortable and dignified care when they are unable to look after themselves, and no-one should be frightened...

Putting quality at the heart of the early years

The Government is investing substantially in the early years through the new offer of 30 hours of free early education and childcare for working parents and the ‘tax-free’ childcare scheme, each of...

Dementia 2020 Citizens' Engagement Programme

The Department of Health published its implementation plan for the Dementia 2020 Challenge in March 20161. The implementation plan sets out a number of key commitments to ensure that dementia care,...

Transforming social care through the use of information and technology

The last decade has seen unprecedented pressure placed on public services. Councils have experienced rising demand and an increase in customer expectations, all at a time of significant resource...

Disabled adults and social workers: Charter

This charter was produced by BASW England (British Association of Social Workers) and Shaping Our Lives . It was written through discussions between disabled adults and social workers from June 2015...

Disabled adults and social workers: Appendix and references

Appendix to accompany the Position Statement and Charter on disabled adults and social workers.

Disabled adults and social workers: Position statement

This position statement was produced by BASW England (British Association of Social Workers) and Shaping Our Lives . It was written through discussions between disabled adults and social workers from...

Young people and the issues of racism and religious discrimination

Tackling racism and religious discrimination was referred to the Youth Select Committee as the topic for this year’s inquiry following the annual United Kingdom Youth Parliament (UKYP) debate in the...

Children’s attachment: Quality standard

This quality standard covers the identification, assessment and treatment of attachment difficulties. It focusses on children and young people up to age 18: - on the edge of care (those considered to...

Children cannot wait: 7 priority actions to protect all refugee and migrant children

78 organisations active in the field of children’s rights strongly welcome that this year’s European Forum on the Rights of the Child focuses on protecting children in migration. Children represent a...

The State of the NHS Provider Sector

This report examines the state of the provider sector – the 238 hospital, mental health, community and ambulance NHS trusts in England. It examines how they are performing, the challenges they face...

Unfinished business: where next for extended schools?

This report takes stock of the extent and success of extended schools by mapping the current provision and funding mechanisms, and comparing this with parental demand for services. It also considers...

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