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Are we getting it right for young victims of crime?

This review presents the findings from a research project carried out by the Victims’ Commissioner Office into the provision of children’s entitlements as set out in the Victims’ Code. The purpose of...

Drug misuse prevention: targeted interventions

This guideline covers targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, 'legal highs' and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or delay harmful use of drugs in...

Health and Social Care Integration (England)

Health and adult social care services in England have traditionally been funded, administered and accessed separately. Health has been provided free at the point of use through the National Health...

Supporting young carers and their families

This booklet is designed to raise awareness of young carers. It explains assessment entitlement and presents suggestions for good practice given by young carers and those who work with them and...

Highways and buyways: A snapshot of UK drug scenes 2016

The idea of the survey is to get a snapshot in time of what is happening with UK street drug markets. Previous surveys were conducted as telephone interviews with local drugs workers, Drug Action...

Charity Today 2017

Charity is a broad term - as broad as ‘business’ or ‘government’. Charities come in a vast array of different shapes and sizes – everything from local groups led by volunteers to complex and...

Performance Tracker A data-driven analysis of the performance of government

Government has clearly succeeded in controlling spending over the past six years, but levels of spending are only part of the story. They tell us little about the cost and demand pressures facing the...

Use of resources

In general, adult social care tends to account for the largest proportion of councils’ controllable expenditure: the national average was around 35 per cent in 2014/15. Coupled with unprecedented...

Commissioning Care Act Advocacy: A work in progress

Advocacy has a long history and is rooted in a belief that disabled people should be able to determine what matters to them and the support they need to enjoy a good quality of life. It is broadly...

Future of social care inspection: consultation outcome and next steps

1. This report sets out the responses to Ofsted’s ‘Future of social care inspection’ consultation. Between 28 June and 9 September 2016, we sought the views of all interested parties through an...
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 3rd December 2015
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 2nd February 2016
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 12th April 2016
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 10th May 2016
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 28th June 2016
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 27th September 2016
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Policy, Ethics & Human Rights Committee (PEHR) Minutes 29th November 2016

“It’s no life at all”: Rough sleepers’ experiences of violence and abuse on the streets of England and Wales

Overall homelessness is increasing in England, and there has been a sharp upward trend in the most visible form of homelessness – rough sleeping. This report presents the findings from a face-to-face...

How poverty affects people’s decision-making processes

As poverty continues to be a persistent feature of the social and economic landscape in the United Kingdom, attention is increasingly turning towards the potentially damaging role played by...

How poverty affects people’s decision-making processes: Summary

Decisions and behaviours play a vital role in helping people to avoid and escape poverty. This research summarises recent evidence on the influence of poverty and low socio-economic status on the...

ImagineNation: The value of Cultural Learning

In recent years the policy landscape for education has changed radically. We have seen a remodelling of the national curriculum in Scotland and England, with a new framework being developed in Wales...

Child and Family Poverty in Wales: Results from the Child and Family Survey 2016

In 2014 and 2015, Children in Wales published two reports: ”Child and Family Poverty in Wales: A snapshot of key issues raised by families” and Child and Family Poverty: results from the Child and...

Shifting the balance of care: Great expectations

This report forms part of our (The Nuffield Trust) work programme on new models of care, and also contributes to our ongoing work on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). We have a long...

Five Year Forward View for Mental Health: One Year On

The recommendations of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health to transform health services were accepted by all the NHS bodies, and in July 2016 together they published a detailed...

End of Life Care Core Skills Education and Training Framework

Death and dying is an inevitable part of life, and will occur in all settings: at home, in care homes, in hospices, hospitals and other institutions. As health and care staff, we have the opportunity...

Policy Statement: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

The Secretary of State for Education confirms the Government’s ambition to support all young people to stay safe and prepare for life in modern Britain by making Relationships Education (Primary),...

Child Protection Improvement Programme

On 25th February 2016, the then Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Angela Constance MSP, announced in Parliament that the Scottish Government would be undertaking a Child...

Good practices aiming to end energy poverty

We would like to offer you a selection of case studies presenting various good practices aiming to end energy poverty in Europe. We hope that by leading you through the presented projects, you will...

Brexit: children’s rights at risk or future opportunity in the global era?

Children live in a different world to their parents and grandparents. For them the virtual world has no borders. Around 1 in 15 children were born to a parent not born in the UK; and in 2015 over 1...

Total transformation of care and support: Creating the five year forward view for social care

The Five Year Forward View sets out a case for upfront investment in the NHS to transform it into a service which reaches people in their homes and communities with early, effective interventions and...

Older people’s experiences of sight loss in care homes

It is estimated that as many as half of the 400,000 older people who live in care homes have some form of sight loss (RNIB, 2014). Although there is a growing body of research into the issues of...

Identifying and Understanding Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates: comparative studies in four UK countries

The project aimed to quantify and begin to understand inequalities in the proportions of children who are either subject to child protection plans or registers (CPP) or who are being ‘looked after’...

Identifying and Understanding Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates: comparative studies in four UK countries

The project aimed to quantify and begin to understand inequalities in the proportions of children who are either subject to childprotection plans (CPP) or who are being ‘looked after’ in out of home...

Better transfers of care for older people: How to improve transitions from hospital

The King's Fund's recent event explored new ways of ensuring safe, appropriate and timely discharge for older people. Drawing on findings from reports by The King’s Fund, Healthwatch England, the...

Key messages from research on child sexual exploitation

These short ‘Key Messages from Research’ briefings bring together current research on child sexual exploitation with implications for practice and strategic commissioning. Each pair of ‘Key Messages...

Adult social care: a pre- Budget report

Adult social care provides care and support of a personal and practical nature to adults of all ages with care needs to enable them to lead independent and fulfilling lives. For some years now,...

‘You Can’t Grow Roses in Concrete’

In mid-2014, Munro, Turnell and Murphy Child Protection Consulting (MTM) succeeded in securing English government innovations funding to work intensively with ten local authorities over eighteen...

Care of dying adults in the last days of life

Quality statements Statement 1 Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death,...

Cheap as chips: Is a healthy diet affordable?

There is a common belief that healthy eating is unaffordable and that ‘junk food’ is cheap. In 2014, it was reported that ‘Healthy foods cost three times as much as unhealthy foods’ (Telegraph) and...

GP Services in Wales: The Perspective of Older People

Overall, it is clear that GP services and the wider primary care offer is highly valued by older people across Wales. However, while many older people reported positive experiences of using GP...

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