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Quality, care providers and the workforce

The quality of care and support is variable between local authority areas and between providers, requiring improvement in the interests of the welfare of individuals, families and carers and to...

Caring for our future: reforming care and support

The Department of Health has considered the impact of each of the key areas of the White Paper and the draft Care and Support Bill on people sharing protected characteristics as part of the policy...

Caring for our future: reforming care and support

Care and support is something that everyone in this country will experience and be part of at some point in their life. Some people have impairments from birth, or develop an impairment or mental...

Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform

Care and support affects most people in England at some point in their lives. More than eight out of ten people aged 65 or over will need some care and support in their later years. 670,000 people in...

Caring for our future:reforming care and support

This document brings together and summarises the accompanying four Impact Assessments that contain analysis of the impact, costs and benefits of implementing the policies set out in the care and...

Reforming the law for adult care and support: the Government’s response to Law Commission report 326 on adult social care

Care and support law is opaque, complex and outdated. Over the past 60 years, a patchwork of legislation has evolved, but without fundamental reform. There are now around 30 different Acts of...

Care Matters: Time for Change

Despite high ambitions and a shared commitment for change, outcomes for children and young people in care have not sufficiently improved. There remains a significant gap between the quality of their...

Valuing People Now ‘Making it happen for everyone’

This document assesses the impact in cost and non-monetary terms of the actions arising from Valuing People Now: A New Three-Year Strategy for people with learning disabilities. Although Valuing...

Is it legal? A families’ guide to the law

This booklet should not be used as a substitute for expert legal advice. Families with a particular query should refer to the helpfile at the back of the booklet for a list of organisations to...

No place for bullying

A wide body of research indicates that bullying is a problem for many young people, and that some of this takes place in schools. The aim of this survey was to evaluate the effectiveness of the...

No place for bullying: Report Summary

A wide body of research indicates that bullying is a problem for many young people, and that some of this takes place in schools. The aim of this survey was to evaluate the effectiveness of the...

No ordinary life

This report is about the experiences of parents of children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities. It was written in response to parents who talked to Mencap and expressed the...

Poverty: the role of institutions, behaviours and culture

This paper: reviews evidence on the causes of poverty; considers the influence of family, employment, geography, education, addiction and debt; and evaluates the role of individual agency,...

The experiences of gay young people in Britain’s schools in 2012

More than half of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people still report experiencing homophobic bullying and its damaging impact is just as pronounced. Over two in five gay pupils who experience...

Positive for Youth

This statement therefore sets out all of the Government’s policies for young people aged 13 to 19 in England within the context of a vision for a society which will enable all young people to succeed...

Positive for Youth: Executive Summary

Positive for Youth is a new approach to cross-Government policy for young people aged 13-19 in England. It brings together all of the Government’s policies for this age group, presenting a single...

Fairer Care Funding Volume 2

This report accompanies the Commission’s main publication and sets out in greater detail the analysis and evidence that underpins our recommendations.

Fairer Care Funding Volume 3

Alongside the core report and analytical report, the Commission has also published a number of supporting documents. For convenience, these have been brought together into this separate pack.

Public attitudes to youth crime

This paper reports the findings of a series of focus groups set up to explore public attitudes to youth crime. The topics included the respondents‟ views of: the extent of crime and anti-social...

Globalisation and Child Welfare

Globalisation is (appropriately) having an impact on child welfare policies as well as on related policy areas such as anti-poverty strategies. National and local government agencies are using...

The Early Years: Foundations for life, health and learning

The evidence is clear that children’s experiences in their early years strongly influence their outcomes in later life, across a range of areas from health and social behaviour to their employment...

Foundation Years

This website is for all those who work in the foundation years delivering services for children and families going through pregnancy or who have children between the ages of 0 and 5. The broad range...

An Equal Start Improving Outcomes in Children’s Centres

This work identifies the most important outcomes Children’s Centres should be striving for in order to give all children positive early-years experiences. We draw together the best academic evidence...

Supporting Families in the Foundation Years

The foundation years are critically important for children and their families, and this document describes the Government’s vision for the system of services that supports them. It is for everyone...

Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage

Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfil their potential. Children develop quickly in the early years and a child’s experiences between birth...

The Core Purpose of Sure Start Children's Centres

The Government believes that children’s centres should have a clear core purpose, focused on Improving outcomes for young children and their families, with a particular focus on the most...

Good practice by Local Safeguarding Children Boards

This report highlights elements of good practice in the operation of Local Safeguarding Children Boards. It aims to support the development of ‘learning systems’, by encouraging all Local...

Munro Review of Child Protection

On 10 June 2010, ministers announced the launch of a review of child protection, headed by Professor Eileen Munro. The Secretary of State for Education asked Professor Munro to conduct a review of...

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

The revised, simpler framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was published on 27 March 2012, for implementation from September 2012. This is an integral part of the Government’s wider...

Building Futures: Believing in children

This guidance invites all practitioners to reflect on the quality of their provision for children of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage or any mixed Black background. Set within the themes...

Every Child a Talker: Guidance for Early Language Lead Practitioners

Every Child a Talker (ECAT) is designed to help you and your colleagues create a developmentally appropriate, supportive and stimulating environment in which children can enjoy experimenting with and...

Early Years Consultant's Handbook

The Childcare Act 2006 places a duty on LAs and their partners to improve outcomes for all young children and reduce inequalities between them. Fulfilling this duty requires a broad and inclusive...

Early Years Quality Improvement Support Programme (EYQISP)

The Childcare Act 2006 places a duty on local authorities and their partners to improve outcomes for all young children and reduce inequalities between them. Fulfilling this duty requires a broad and...

Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage

This booklet provides guidance for practitioners on meeting the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework. It aims to provide useful advice and detailed information on...

Listening to children’s views on health provision

This rapid review was carried out by the Research Centre at the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) on behalf of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum. The review provides a synthesis of...

Resourceful leadership: how directors of children’s services improve outcomes for children

Leading for Outcomes is a unique study into senior leadership in children’s services in England, drawing on in-depth primary research with leaders in eight local authorities, and 22 directors of...

Judicial proposals for the modernisation of family justice

There are two key elements to the proposals. The first is strong judicial leadership and management i.e. judicial control of the workload of the court by the management of judicial deployment to...

Assessing young people in police custody

Triage schemes were set up to assess young people as they enter the youth justice system, and to ensure that their needs are identified. Triage schemes are based in police stations and a key aim is...

Understanding the Market for Secure Children’s Homes Summary Report

Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs) are provided by individual local authorities (and in one case a voluntary agency) to offer care in a secure setting to young people sentenced by the courts and to young...

Faircare for the future: Why social care matters fordeafblind people

A growing number of voices – including those of deafblind people – are saying that the social care system is under-funded and not working. This report describes deafblind people’s experiences of...

Welfare Reform Act 2012

An Act to make provision for universal credit and personal independence payment; to make other provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision about the functions of the...

All Ireland Traveller Health Study

The All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS) is the first study of Traveller health status and health needs that involves all Travellers living on the island of Ireland, North and South.

Close to Home: Summary

Nearly 500,000 older people receive essential care in their own home paid for wholly or partly by their local authority. For too many this care delivered behind closed doors is not supporting the...

Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS

The NHS White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, sets out the Government's long-term vision for the future of the NHS. The vision builds on the core values and principles of the NHS -...

Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care

As life expectancy pushes into the late 70s for men and well into the 80s for women, ever more people want help in order to be able to live their lives to the full for as long as possible. How will...

Improving local safeguarding outcomes

The framework is aimed at strategic partnerships and individual organisations with safeguarding children responsibilities. It has been designed to help those with leadership, senior management or...

The Commission on Assisted Dying

The Commission on Assisted Dying was set up in September 2010 to consider whether the current legal and policy approach to assisted dying in England and Wales is fit for purpose. In addition to...

The Commission on the future delivery of public services

The Commission believes Scotland’s public services are in need of urgent and sustained reform to meet unprecedented challenges. The pressure on budgets is intense and public spending is not expected...

Case management

This paper examines how case management can be implemented successfully. It is the first in a series of reports from The King’s Fund that examine key strategies designed to improve the delivery of...

Delivering Dignity

This report is not a repetition of the welldocumented problems. Nor is it a best practice guide for managers and staff, as excellent materials already exist. Instead we have focused on how to tackle...

Health and wellbeing boards: System leaders or talking shops?

In its White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (Department of Health 2010a), the government set out its intention to strengthen the role of local government in local health services...

Never Again? The story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

‘Never Again?’ tells the story of how and why the Health and Social Care Act 2012 – by far the most controversial piece of NHS legislation in more than two decades – became law. It relates the story...

Older people and emergency bed use

This paper explores variation in the use of acute beds by older people admitted as an emergency, and examines the factors that may be driving this variation. We explore what can be learned from those...

Personalisation: A Shared Understanding

Personalisation through participation isn’t rocket science! But it can change the way public services are delivered and how engaged people and communities are in that. It is a key pillar of the...

Common core competences and principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life

This document reflects the work undertaken to date on developing workforce competences and core principles as they relate to end of life care. Skills for Care and Skills for Health working in...

Safeguarding vulnerable adults – a tool kit for general practitioners

This tool kit is about promoting the wellbeing of adults who may have difficulty in protecting themselves from harm and abuse and in promoting their own interests. Designed principally with general...

The Voluntary and Community Sector in Health

The government’s health and social care White Paper and subsequent Health and Social Care Bill (House of Commons Bill 2010–11) set out clear aspirations for the voluntary and community sector as a...

Toward an equal start

A large body of international evidence underscores the importance of early intervention – from conception to age 8 - for child development and later life outcomes. This includes recent articles in...

Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together

This paper has been written as a contribution to the work of the NHS Future Forum and in support of the government’s espoused aim of placing integrated care at the heart of the programme of NHS...

Where next for the NHS reforms?

The main argument of the paper is that reforms to the NHS must be clearly focused on, and proportionate to, the challenges it faces. One of the reasons the coalition government has run into...

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