Purpose: To compare and contrast any differences and similarities in overall social services and service specific spending per head of population within the different nations of the United Kingdom, and

As the first stage of the person centred approaches and adult placement project, a synthesis of findings from selected literature about adult placement was commissioned by SCIE in August 2004.

This report looks at the difficulties service users face in being paid for their contribution to reviewing, planning and developing services and the difficulties payments cause with the benefits system.

Formal response to recommendations made in the Care 21 report: The Future of Unpaid Care in Scotland, identifying early priorities and outlining a ten year agenda to improve the lives

This report demonstrates how the review process can be extended to a synthesis of qualitative studies using the example of older people’s views on hospital discharge.

The evidence base underpinning social care practice is not as robust as that in other areas. In this report SCIE compares the research infrastructure supporting social care with that of

Plans for the implementation of Getting it Right for Every Child proposals

Research into children and young peoples views on advocacy in the children’s hearings system.

Full report on analysis of responses to Getting it Right for Every Child consultation.

This paper provides a short overview of the ‘Lean’ management concept.