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Creative Homes

The purpose of this report is to celebrate existing good practice in the use of the arts with and for older people in residential care and to inspire more and better work.

Criteria for assessing social work qualifications gained outside the UK

This document sets out the assessment framework that the General Social Care Council (GSCC) uses when assessing whether social work qualifications gained outside the United Kingdom (UK) are...

Cycles of poverty, unemployment and low pay

This paper summarises the findings of four projects about recurrent poverty and the low-pay/no-pay cycle and examines relevant current UK policy and practice and suggests ways to create longer-...

Differential treatment in the youth justice system

Whether ethnic minority groups are disproportionately involved in crime is a highly contentious and contested issue. While it is possible that the over-representation of black and mixed race...

Disability-related harassment: the role of public bodies

Many disabled people in the study said that low-level disability-related harassment is a backdrop to their everyday lives. They used the term ‘low level’ mainly to describe incidents that they...

Impact evaluation of the Disabled Children’s Access to Childcare Pilot (DCATCH)

This report covers the main findings from a quantitative study designed to evaluate the impact of the Disabled Children’s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) pilot scheme on the provision of childcare for...

Disabled Children’s Acces to Childcare (DCATCH): Process evaluation of particicipation and workforce development activity in the DCATCH pilots

The Disabled Children‟s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) pilot is the specific AHDC initiative dedicated to developing childcare provision for this group of children and their families. The £35 million...

Disabled people’s experiences of targeted violence and hostility

The Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned the Office for Public Management (OPM) to conduct a two-phase project looking into disabled people’s experiences of targeted violence and...

Domestic Violence against Women

The European Union defines ‘violence against women’ as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women,...

Don’t look back? Improving health and social care service delivery for older LGB users

The Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned this paper to provide an overview of the available UK evidence relating to older LGB individuals who use, or may be in need of, health and social...

Early years, life chances and equality: a literature review

The purpose of this report is to review recent literature on how early years experiences may impact on life chances for different groups of the population. Life chances can cover a range of...

Edging away from care – how services successfully prevent young people entering care

This report analyses a small sample of local authorities and their partner agencies and looks at how services successfully support young people who are at risk of entering care to remain living at...

Effective classroom strategies for closing the gap in educational achievement for children and young people living in poverty, including white working-class boys

This report summarises the best available evidence that will help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Effective interventions for complex families where there are concerns about, or evidence of, a child suffering significant harm

Protecting and supporting children who suffer significant harm is multi-faceted and different service approaches are likely to be effective with different types of family, at different stages of...

Effective Social Work with Older People

As part of the 21st Century Review of Social Work, the Scottish Executive asked the Social Work Research Centre at the University of Stirling to review the evidence base for effective social work...

Empowering Young People Pilots (EYPP) Evaluation

The Empowering Young People Pilots (EYPP) were part of the ten year youth strategy for positive activities, published in July 20071. The aim of the pilots was to make funds available so that the most...

Enabling risk, ensuring safety

This report looks at some of the research findings and emerging principles and practice concerning risk enablement in the self-directed support and personal budget process while also recognising the...

Environments for care at end of life

The majority of end of life care literature focuses, rightly, on palliative care and makes few references to the physical environment. However, for some years there has been few references to the...

End of Life Care Strategy

It is the first comprehensive framework aimed at promoting high quality care across the country for all adults approaching the end of life.

Living and dying with dignity

There are 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK. They are among the most excluded and disadvantaged people in today’s society, particularly where issues of health and end-of-life...

What do we know now that we didn’t know a year ago?

Published four years ago, the End of Life Care Strategy made clear the need to know more about the care people receive in their last year or months of life. With the creation of the National End of...

End of Life Care Strategy First Annual Report

The strategy included a commitment that I would report to you annually on progress. This is the first report in the series. It covers progress at national and regional levels with illustrations of...

End of Life Care Strategy Second Annual Report

This year I can report a real sense that momentum is building. Where last year’s examples concentrated on infrastructure, this year we have some important developments along the entire end of life...

End of Life Care Strategy Third Annual Report

This report, as last year’s, is able to point to progress along the entire end of life care pathway, from discussions about end of life care through to help for the bereaved.

Ensuring all disabled children and young people and their families receive services which are sufficiently differentiated to meet their diverse needs

The review focuses specifically on disabled children from black and minority ethnic groups, from asylum-seeking families, with complex needs and living away from home (excluding looked-after children...

Ensuring all disabled children and young people and their families receive services which are sufficiently differentiated to meet their diverse needs

This review focuses on the experiences of children and their families posing the greatest challenge to current service delivery and requiring most support. These are children from black and minority...

Ensuring that all children and young people make sustained progress and remain fully engaged through all transitions between key stages

This knowledge review tells us what works in ensuring that all children and young people make sustained progress and remain fully engaged through all transitions between school key stages. It is...

Equal opportunities and the Scottish Parliament: a progress review

This is the first review to be undertaken of how the powers are presented and understood by stakeholders and policy makers. It provides an initial assessment of the impact of the equal opportunities...

Equality and diversity and older people with high support needs

In this review, we use a ‘capability-based’ approach to equality, considering the needs and situations of older people with high support needs from different equality groups and the barriers they...

Equality issues in Wales: a research review

There is evidence of substantial inequality in Wales. Ethnic minority groups, women, disabled people and older people consistently experience disadvantage and discrimination in almost all areas of...

Ethnic diversity and inequality: ethical and scientific rigour in social research

This research involved a series of review, consultation and piloting exercises to address the increasing need for research to inform policy and practice development that is sensitive to the diversity...

Ethnicity and child poverty

Child poverty commands widespread national and international concern. The United Kingdom (UK) has established its ambitions to end child poverty, with interim targets for substantial reductions and...

Evaluating models of care closer to home for children and young people who are ill. Final report.

Providing care for children who are ill, as close to home as possible, is an objective of health care providers and policy makers nationally and internationally. The existing evidence base to support...

Evaluating the early impact of integrated children's services

The research focused on three key groups of children and young people for whom integrated children’s services might particularly make a difference. These groups were: looked-after children (LAC);...

Evaluation of the Action for Children Supported Housing, Supported Tenancy and Pre-Tenancy Support services.

The evaluation was undertaken to establish the difference that these services had made to the lives and outcomes for young women & their families, including factors that enabled or hindered...

Evaluation of the Children in Trouble programme

The Children in Trouble programme – a joint project supported by the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Howard League for Penal Reform – set out to encourage, develop and showcase different...

Evaluation of the Impact of Action for Children Short break Services on Outcomes for Children - Final Report

This report examines the findings of a study commissioned by Action for Children to explore the impact that their short break services have on disabled children and their families.

Evaluation of the Pilot Programme of the Integrated Children's System: the Disability Study

The intention is that the ICS will provide local authorities in England and Wales with a comprehensive system for collecting information about children in need who are in receipt of service by...

Evaluation of the Right2B Cared4 pilots interim report

International research suggests that, as a group, care leavers are at high risk of social exclusion and poor outcomes as they negotiate the transition to adulthood, including low educational...

Exploring poverty gaps among children in the UK

This paper supplements the headcount measures with analysis of the ‘poverty gap’ for UK children. The poverty gap measures ‘How poor are the poor’ i.e. the extent of poverty for those who are below...

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