In her debut blog for Social Care News, Rose De Paeztron, Practice Development Manager at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), sees much to commend in the Care Act reforms. Can you imagine, twenty years ago, legislation setting down …
Investing early in prevention in adult social care can reduce or delay the need for costly crisis intervention or care services – a new online information resource has arrived to support people’s independence and help them live well for longer. …
‘It’s time to use the assets we have in our communities,’ says Ewan King, Director of Business Development and Delivery at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It’s time to make asset-based approaches more widespread, but what do we …
When service user, now mental health consultant, June Sadd was sectioned, she felt there was no support available to help her make any sense of her situation. On the eve of the first Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat summit, it …
'Why is the home we live in so important to us?', asks Tony Hunter, Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), in his latest post for the Social Care News blog. They are places where life happens …
All of us have the right to feel safe in our own homes. Despite this, many people remain vulnerable - and it's not just the young who may be at risk, says Dame Clare Tickell, Chief Executive, Hanover Housing Association. When …
Co-production is very important to the integration of health and social care. As a way of working it treats carers and those in receipt of care services with equal importance. But there's more to equality than the pursuit of a …
What does a man taking his dog for a walk on a Cornish beach have to do with providing good health and social care? Evidence shows that where services, such as health and social care, are well coordinated or integrated, …
Think Local Act Personal, an alliance of over 30 national social care partners committed to improving the delivery of personalised community-based support, has launched a set of three tools to help improve the provision of information and advice available in …