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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...

National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services

The National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (Children’s National Service Framework) is a 10 year programme intended to stimulate long-term and sustained...

National Service Framework for Older People

This National Service Framework is the first ever comprehensive strategy to ensure fair, high quality, integrated health and social care services for older people.

New Approaches to Supporting Carers’ Health and Well-being

The aim of the programme was for sites to develop and enhance the local support available to carers and, where possible, to measure the quality and effectiveness of the new provision. The national...

Older people and human rights in home care: a report of two surveys

In November 2010, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) launched a major inquiry into the human rights of older people in receipt of home care in England. The aim was to investigate if the...

Older people’s experiences of home care in England

A growing number of people over 65 in England need paid help and support with their everyday life. Home care is currently the main way in which such help and support are supplied by public...

Older people’s vision for long-term care

Older people with high support needs constitute a large and growing sector of our population. Recent developments in independent living, which enable people who need support to have choice and...

On our own two feet

Children in care are among the most marginalised and disadvantaged people in the UK. The majority have left care by the time they are 18 to face an adult life without work, education or training, and...

On the line

A social worker suspended following management allegations about his practice, describes the period of intense uncertainty that ensued. Despite his life being turned upside down, information about...

On the record – getting it right

This paper complements the overview report and deals specifically with one of the key messages from our analysis of all the performance inspection findings. That is effective management of social...

Options against obesity

In the second and final part of PSW’s focus on social work’s role in supporting people with obesity in making changes to their lifestyle in the interests of their health and their families health...

Outcomes-focused services for older people

The concept of ‘outcomes’ is closely related to that of ‘quality of life’. There is a high degree of consistency between different studies in the outcomes that are valued by older people; these also...

Building successful Healthwatch organisations

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 places local government at the centre of ensuring our communities receive the care they deserve. Together with new responsibilities for Public Health and Health...

Health and Social Care Act 2012

An Act to establish and make provision about a National Health Service Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups and to make other provision about the National Health Service in England;...

The essential guide to the public sector equality duty: An overview for listed public authorities in Wales

The non-statutory guidance has been developed primarily for those responsible for implementing the Wales specific duties, particularly those at senior and operational level who are responsible for...

New Approaches to Supporting Carers’ Health and Well-being: Summary

This report summary presents key findings of the national evaluation of the Department of Health’s Demonstrator Sites (DS) programme which aimed to improve carers’ health and well-being, in line with...

Mental Health Act 2007

An Act to amend the Mental Health Act 1983, the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to mentally disordered persons; to amend section 40 of the...

Preventing suicide in England

A new strategy intended to reduce the suicide rate and improve support for those affected by suicide. The strategy: sets out key areas for action; states what government departments will do to...

No decision about us without us

The Framework for ‘No health without mental health’ sets out recommendations for local bodies with a role to play in delivering mental health services and support. This guide is a companion document...

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12

The overarching theme of the report is how to embed dignity, recovery and participation in practice when people are subject to compulsory care and treatment. Separate chapters focus on the use of the...

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2011/12: Summary

What we found: Some hospitals and wards are doing a very good job in treating patients with dignity and respect. The report highlights good practice, for the first time naming the relevant providers...

Monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act in 2009/10

Our findings on the experience of detained patients raise important general issues for service providers and commissioners, including how effectively providers are putting into practice the Code of...

No Health without Mental Health

This strategy sets out our ambition to mainstream mental health, and establish parity of esteem between services for people with mental and physical health problems.

Not a one way street

These initial findings will be of interest to those involved in commissioning and providing services and support (across all public services and sectors); policy makers and implementers who are...

Off the map? The geography of NEETs

Young people who are NEET, not in employment, education or training, represent a serious social problem.

Oversight of special education for young people aged 16–25

‘Special education’ is the education, training and other support provided to students with special educational needs and disabilities.1 It is provided to young people with a wide range of needs,...

Parent Participation Improving services for disabled children

The guide offers an array of practical examples and suggestions to help professionals and parents become effective participators. It also offers an opportunity to welcome and reflect on a changing...

Parental experience of services for disabled children

This report draws on the findings of the second national survey of parents’ views on services for disabled children in England.

Parenting Early Intervention Programme: 2nd Interim Report

The Parenting Early Intervention Programme (PEIP) is an initiative to fund all local authorities (LAs) in England to deliver evidence-based parenting programmes. The PEIP Pathfinder (Wave 1; 2006-08...

Parents at the Centre

The objective of the research presented in this report is to understand why some parents who are entitled to use early years services don’t normally do so. More specifically, our research seeks to...

Part of the team

Neuromuscular specialist Louise Gethin draws on her experience of offering multidisciplinary support to people with neuromuscular conditions to emphasise the specific role of social work in improving...

Participation of Disabled Children and Young People in Decision Making Relating to Social Care

Increasing children's1 participation in decisions, both about their own care and about service development, is a key policy priority. Although in general children's participation is increasing,...

Pre-teens learning about alcohol

Childhood experiences and the infl uence of family are crucial to forming future drinking habits. Much emphasis has been placed on understanding the impact of problem drinking within the family,...

Personal Health Budgets: Early experiences of budget holders

Personal health budgets are being piloted in English primary care trusts (PCTs) between 2009 and 2012. This evaluation report looks at the early experiences of a small subsample of budget holders and...

Person-centred support

This study examines person-centred support, a key new concern in public services. It does this by bringing together for the fi rst time the views, ideas and experience of service users, face to face...

Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour?

This report considers some of the ways that affluence and disadvantage influence children’s educational attainment. It focuses on a broad set of factors, varying across childhood, classified under...

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