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Significant inequalities in Scotland

This research aims to develop greater clarity about significant inequality in Scotland, the priorities for action and the importance of improving the evidence base.

Sexual orientation research review 2008

In January 2008, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to review current research and evidence on sexual orientation in order to...

Sexual orientation explored

A Commission priority is to populate the new Equality Measurement Framework (EMF) with data on indicators, in order to map the changing face of equality. However, it is well established that...

Services, public functions and associations

This document is a Statutory Code of Practice. This is the authoritative, comprehensive and technical guide to the detail of law. It will be invaluable to lawyers, advocates, human resources...

Services for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs

The review arose because of concerns raised during related audit and inspection work, and from issues raised by a wide range of stakeholders. Children and young people with emotional and mental...

Securing Good Care for Older People

The Review team has examined social and health care policy, services and spending as well as demographic, social and technological trends. The analysis was used in the development of a model for...

Securing Good care for More People

This report builds on the 2006 review. It marshals fresh evidence of the compelling need for reform including projections drawn from dynamic modelling. It reinforces the access and fairness while...

Second Biennial Report on social services of general interest

Social services of general interest (SSGI) play a major role in the European societies by contributing to social protection and social inclusion and enhance the capacity of individuals to enjoy their...

Safeguarding and looked after children

This is Ofsted’s first annual survey of social work practitioners across local authorities in England.

Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: A legal guide for practitioners

This guide is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. It tries to explain the law in reasonably simple terms, so it is selective and does not set out of question and...

The Right to Choose: Statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage

This guidance is given to all persons, bodies and organisations in Northern Ireland who exercise public functions in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, including those...

Access all Areas

Many care leavers have to cope with major changes in their lives, setting up home, entering work or college, at a much younger age than other young people. If they are to succeed and prosper care...

Child abuse and neglect in the UK today

This report presents new research findings from the NSPCC on child maltreatment in the United Kingdom, looking specifically at the prevalence and impact of severe maltreatment. We found that the...

Help is at Hand

This guide has been produced to help people who are unexpectedly bereaved following the suicide or sudden, traumatic death of a friend or relative. It also provides information for healthcare and...

Health care for disabled children and young people

This review looks at what organisations told us they were doing to support the health care needs of disabled children and young people (aged 0-18 years), and their families and carers. We also asked...

Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection

Since the early days of the World Wide Web, pornography has been one of the most widely available forms of internet content. Freedom from prying eyes, human imagination and zero barriers to entry...

Progress in Child-Wellbeing: Building on what works

This report analyses the improvements to children’s lives during the past two decades in five sectors: health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and child protection. The extraordinary...

Improving and Safeguarding Social Wellbeing

This strategy for Social Work in Northern Ireland sets out a vision and agenda for action for social work and social workers in improving and safeguarding the social wellbeing of individuals,...

Constructing an inclusive institutional structure

The task of constructing an inclusive institutional culture and intercultural competences in social services currently raises a highly topical question: what will be the future of social cohesion in...

Sustainable health and social care

This report provides an overview of what is currently known about the environmental impacts of health and social care, before examining the evidence for a connection between sustainability,...

EU Framework of Law for Children’s Rights

The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of the EU situation with respect to the rights of the child. In recent years, the EU has adopted a number of important measures, with the Lisbon...

BASW: UK Supervision Policy

The purpose of the supervision policy is to clarify what BASW considers to be the professional rights of social workers in relation to supervision and the responsibilities of the agency, the worker...

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults A Shared Responsibility

The development of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults – A Shared Responsibility, as Guidance primarily for voluntary, community and independent sector organisations, is part of an ongoing programme of...

After the riots

Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 August 2011 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Official Opposition...

Supporting families with complex needs: Findings from LARC4

This report also offers new evidence from more than 30 case studies, showing that even for children and families with much more complex needs, including those on the edge of care, it is still...

Targeting children's centre services on the most needy families

This report provides evidence of how children’s centres are targeting the most disadvantaged families. It explains how local authority and children’s centre staff are defining, identifying and...

Landing in Dover

Article 22 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) requires State Parties to take measures to ensure that children seeking asylum receive appropriate protection and...

Neglect: research evidence to inform practice

The government defines neglect as: ‘The persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child's health or development...

Gender Recognition Act 2004

An Act to make provision for and in connection with change of gender.

Civil Partnership Act 2004

An Act to make provision for and in connection with civil partnership.

Living through Challenges in Low Income Neighbourhoods: Change, Continuity, Contrast

This document is the final report of the research project, Living through Change in Challenging Neighbourhoods, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in order to examine, through a mix of research...

Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland

This Executive Summary is drawn from the main Report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland. Part 1 of this summary outlines the nature, extent and...

Monitoring and evaluation of family interventions (information on families supported to March 2010)

Intensive family interventions (formerly known as Family Intervention Projects or FIPs) work with the most challenging families and tackle issues such as anti-social behaviour, youth crime, inter-...

Multiple risk factors in young children’s development

This paper quantifies the prevalence of multiple risks for families with very young children in the UK, and their prevalence by ethnic groups.

Narrowing the gap in educational achievement and improving emotional resilience for children and young people with additional needs

This review aims to draw out the key ‘what works?’ messages with regard to narrowing the gap in educational achievement and improving emotional resilience (social skills, self-esteem and the ability...

Narrowing the gap in outcomes: Governance

This report/paper is based on research conducted by the NFER and commissioned by the LGA for the national Narrowing the Gap team. It aims to identify whether or not governance has an effective role...

Narrowing the gap in outcomes: Leadership

This report/paper is based on research conducted by the NFER and commissioned by the LGA for the national Narrowing the Gap team. It aims to identify whether or not leadership has an effective role...

Narrowing the gap in outcomes for young children through effective practices in the early years: Knowledge Review

This knowledge review tells us what works in narrowing the gap in outcomes for young children through effective practices in the early years. It is based on a rapid review of the research literature...

Narrowing the gap in outcomes for young children through effective practices in the early years: Research Review

This report presents findings from a rapid review of research and national data on the impact of certain background characteristics on outcomes for children in the early years. It seeks to identify...

National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2010

The guidance provides a national framework within which agencies and practitioners at local level – individually and jointly – can understand and agree processes for working together to safeguard and...

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