Imagining the Future
What might social services look like in 2025? In 2013 IRISS ran a series of workshops to help us understand the technical, medical and cultural forces that will shape
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Category: Reports & Resources
Policy paper – Mental health: priorities for change
The document sets out 25 priorities for change. It details how changes in local service planning and delivery will make a difference to the lives of people with mental health
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Integrated care value case toolkit
The LGA has partnered with NHS England, The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), Monitor, NHS Confederation and the Department
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Children who run away or go missing from home or care
Statutory guidance setting out the steps LAs and their partners should take to stop children from going missing and to protect those who do. This statutory guidance is for:
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Northern Ireland Care Leavers Aged 16–18 2012/13
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety today published a statistical bulletin summarising information on young care leavers aged 16 to 18 in Northern Ireland who left care
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Self-harm and eating disorders in young people
The purpose of this report is to elucidate young people’s self-harming behaviour in order to find possible causes, risk and protection factors to generate ideas for effective preventive measures. The
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Flying Start qualitative research with high need families – Wales
The Flying Start programme aims to improve outcomes for children in some of the most deprived areas across Wales. This is done through providing four key Flying Start entitlements to
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Children’s rights, social justice and social identities in Scotland
A programme run by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII). The key objectives of this project are to: create meaningful knowledge exchange opportunities between children and young people, practitioners,
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Delivering integrated care and support – Report commissioned by ADSW | IRISS
Document that is the second review of research evidence completed for ADSW by Professor Alison Petch from IRISS on the factors that underpin best health and social care integrated practice.
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The Red Book 2013: Children Under Pressure
Action for Children has launched new research showing thousands of children across the UK are struggling to cope with serious problems that no child should have to deal with. Poverty,
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