The framework and guidance set out in this document are for the inspections of outcomes and services for safeguarding children and young people and outcomes and services for looked after
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Adult social care is changing, to put the people who use services at the heart of their own care and support. This requires a different approach from the social care
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The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (‘the Act’) was introduced to protect individuals with incapacity and to provide support for their families and carers in managing and safeguarding the
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IRISS have announced the publication of Practitioner Research in Children 1st: Cohorts, Networks and Systems by Neil Lunt, Ian Shaw and Fiona Mitchell. This evaluation explores the practitioner research initiative of Children 1st and the Glasgow School of Social Work which was aimed at supporting practitioners to develop and undertake their own small-scale research projects.
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As readers of this column will know, we enthusiastically believe that the web offers great potential for communication and learning, as well as for fun and leisure. But we also
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Social Work is one of the professions which has some unique aspects dissimilar to other jobs. One is that workers are given ongoing formal supervision which could be considered a
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Clare, 19, earns £13,000 as a residential care home assistant, with an NVQ level 2 in health and social care. She is aiming for a public or voluntary sector career.
Restart Resources is a social work agency founded in 2002 to provide qualified social workers and frontline social work resources for Childcare and Mental Health Services
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IRISS has been reorganising and refocussing but we’ve not been standing still. This month’s column offers a recap on how we are using the web to help you keep abreast
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Karen Poulter was on the morning medication round — a cupboard on wheels full of pills and medicine for the residents of the Red Oaks care home. It is a complicated business: four pills in the morning for this man, then three at lunch and tea; two twice a day for that woman; eight pills and a medicine for that resident — for arthritis, gout, heart problems and, of course, dementia.
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