Shared Lives: mutually assured support
Shared Lives is a community-based service offering accommodation and support to adults with learning disabilities and/or other social care needs. Find out more...
Celebrating co-production
SCIE recently marked the eighth year of its annual Co-production Week, a five day national festival of co-production in action, in which the organisation and its partners celebrated and shared good practice in co-production in social care.
Supporting adult carers: our role as care professionals
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Guidance, Information sharing, Workforce
NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) published their guidance on supporting adult carers in 2020. It aims to improve their lives by helping health and social care practitioners identify people caring for someone and give them the right information and resources to live and care well.
Named care workers: the case for expansion across adult social care
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Ewan King and Lyn Romeo, Posted on:
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Care and support, Innovation, Integrated care, social work, Workforce
In 2018, the Social Care Institute for Excellence was part of a Department of Health and Social Care project looking at how people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs - and their families - can be in control of decisions about their own future. It's time to take that learning further.
Technology takes off
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Ewan King and Ralph Cook, Posted on:
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Care and support, Innovation, Leadership, Social care reform, Workforce
The Social Care White Paper asserts ‘When technology is embedded into care and support services, it can be transformative, helping people to live happy, fulfilled lives in their homes and communities.’ It sets out several promising initiatives, including a new scheme to test new care technology. SCIE and Channel 3 Consulting explore what the future could hold.
Preparing for Liberty Protection Safeguards
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Paula Thompson-Butler, Posted on:
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Care and support, Safeguarding, social work
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is working with key partners from across the social care, health and education sectors including Department for Health and Social Care, Skills for Care, National Care Forum, Department for Education, NHSE/I, Health Education England, Social Work England, Social Care Wales, LGA/ADASS to identify key learning needs to support the sector to prepare and embed LPS within everyday practice.
Co-production isn’t just for Co-production Week
When you have a ‘week’ or ‘month’ concentrating on a theme or a campaign, it can really focus minds. But there’s also the danger that, once the week or month has passed, the issue gets sidelined. Co-production Week, which the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) ran in early July, got a good conversation going. Gerard Crofton-Martin, Head of Research, Practice Improvement and Co-production wants to make the most of this awareness raising...
Older adults and the future of housing
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Rebekah Luff, Posted on:
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Care and support, Communities, Innovation, Leadership, LGBT+ awareness, Workforce
In February 2021, the Commission on the Role of Housing in the Future of Care and Support published its first report – a policy discussion paper outlining the major issues facing accommodation provision for older people and setting out a vision for a better future, with some preliminary proposals the Commission had been exploring as part of the second phase. The Social Carer Institute for Excellence (SCIE)'s Rebekah Luff delves into the detail...
Strengths based practice makes perfect
"There is still some way to go before strengths-based working becomes the norm in our services and communities. Leadership is vital if we are to achieve this aspiration", believes Robin Miller, Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health and Social Care at the University of Birmingham.
Lockdowns unlock innovation
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Ewan King, Posted on:
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Care and support, Information sharing, Innovation, Workforce
Tough as it is, the lockdowns have not stopped social care professionals, organisations and services finding ways to provide amazing support. The restrictions have been hard for everyone involved in social care, but they have also brought opportunities and innovations which have inspired and supported others. SCIE's Ewan King explains more...