publications
Area publications archive
North East
- Care ambassador brochure
- End of life care learning pathway
- Exploring demand and supply of adult social care workforce qualifications
- Infection prevention
- Infection strategy
- North east regional workforce strategy
North West
- Annual review 2010
- Apprenticeship newsletter September 2010
- Business plan summary 2010/11
- Care ambassador flyer
- Case studies looking at good practice when recruiting and retaining personal assistants
- Consultations with people who use services - foundation degree
- Consultations with people who use services - student placements
- Dementia workforce development mapping report - executive summary
- Executive summary - recruiting migrant workers
- "Getting started" - a direct payment customer toolkit
- Getting started - a personal assistant toolkit
- Good practice guide
- Good practice guide to the involvement of people who use services, and carers in recruitment and retention of staff
- How to complete NMDS-SC in order to claim TSI funding 2010/11
- Integrated workforce planning - a study to establish integration between health and social care in the north west
- Investigating the personal assistant workforce in the North West region - executive summary
- Investors with people - case studies
- NMDS-SC north west annual report 2010
- NMDS-SC online guidance
- NMDS-SC update guidance
- NMDS-SC data for the voluntary sector
- NQSW consultation
- NQSW - research report into north west activity - November_2010
- Outcomes toolkit
- Outcomes toolkit - part four (powerpoint presentation)
- Personalisation - commissioners and providers collaborating
- Personalisation - supporting social workers through change
- Practice learning - case studies from the North West
- Report to address the under-representation of black and minority ethnic communities in social care employment
- Report on good practice in recruitment for people aged over 50
- Support brokerage
- Teacher resource pack
- Understanding support brokerage
- Voluntary sector - engagement strategy
Yorkshire & the Humber
- Newly Qualified Social Workers - evidence requirements
- Newly Qualified Social Workers - resource pack
- NMDS-SC regional report
- 'Outside the Boxes' integration toolkit
- People who use services - an introduction to Skills for Care
- People who use services - Personalisation: what does it mean to you
- Post Qualifying Social Work - full report (Nov 08)
- Post Qualifying Social Work - user guide (Nov 08)
East Midlands
- Case Study - Budgets
- Case Study - Citizen Leaders
- Case Study - Dementia Care
- Case Study - Enhanced Duties
- Case Study - Homecare
- Case Study - Northants Brokerage
- Case Study - Smart Care
- Case Study - Specialist Homecare
- Continuation Report
- Newly Qualified Social Worker Workshops - Final Report 2009
- New Types of Worker - An evaluation of the Assistant Practioner Role in Nottingham
- New Types of Worker - Business guidance report
- New Types of Worker - Final report
- New Types of Worker - Jack Dawes team evaluation report
- New Types of Worker - South West Linconlshire evaluation report
- New Types of Worker Case Study - Cornerstone Supported Living
- New Types of Worker Case Study - The Jack Dawe Service
- New Types of Worker Case Study - Mosaics Direct Payment Support Service
- Personalisation Agenda: a training perspective - new ways of working
- Post Qualifying: what people who use services want to see
- Qualified Assurance of Practice Learning - report
- Report for the Qualified Social Worker research project
- The need for Newly Qualified Social Workers - executive summary
West Midlands
- Addressing the quality of practice learning in the West Midlands - executive summary
- Addressing the quality of practice learning in the West Midlands - full report
- A review of West Midlands social work electronic assessment portfolio (February 2009)
- Audit of practice educators in the West Midlands - draft report (February 2009)
- Better the education and training, better the workforce, better the business (stage 2): addressing the changes of the transformation agenda - full report
- Better the education and training, better the workforce, better the business (stage 2) - conference report
- Better the workforce, better the business: developing graduate skills in adult social care - executive summary
- Brokering Change: An evaluation of the West Midlands social care skills brokerage programme - July 2009
- Brokering Change - summary report
- Developing partnership working in social work education: fit for the future - executive summary
- Dignity Newsletter
- Direct payments - full report
- Every nine minutes: recruitment and retention strategy for the West Midlands (March 2008)
- Facing up to the challenges in delivering social work education: a regional response of the social work taskforce - conference report (February 2010)
- Facing up to the challenges in delivering social work education: a regional response to the recommendations of the social work taskforce - executive summary (February 2010)
- Finding your way through the maze - funding booklet (2008)
- Future requirements for social work education and employment: planning together - executive summary (October 2007)
- Joining forces - developing practice learning opportunities in healthcare settings for social work students
- Future_Requirements_for_Social_Work_Education_and_Employment_-_Planning_Together
- Improving the recruitment of men into the care sector in the West Midlands - final report (July 2009)
- Learning about action learning: lessons and resources toolkit (September 2009) (Word document)
- Made to measure - commissioning training to drive up equality
- Made to measure: good practice examples
- Made to measure: impact of learning and development in social practice
- Models of mentoring across adult social care in the West Midlands - final report (word document)
- New Types of Worker - working in the West Midlands:
- National Minimum Dataset for Social Care: West Midlands regional report (July 2010)
- Putting dignity at the heart of everything we do: a guide to delivering this workshop - facilitator notes
- Realising its potential: National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) in the West Midlands - executive summary (December 2009)
- Realising its potential: National Minimum Dataset for Social Care (NMDS-SC) in the West Midlands - key issues and recommendations (December 2009)
- Social work education symposium "putting people first - aspiration to reality": delivering transformed services through developing others - full report (February 2009)
- Social work in search of a future? Emerging models in transformed services - executive summary
- Social work in search of a future? Emerging models in transformed services - full report
- Social work students: an untapped resource - practice learning in the West Midlands 2010-2011
- Social work post qualifying course directory - executive summary (August 2009)
- The enabling others PQ module: reviewing curriculum assessment, delivery and employer satisfaction with the enabling others module across the region -executive summary (March 2009)
- The enabling others PQ module: reviewing curriculum assessment, delivery and employer satisfaction with the enabling other module across the West Midlands region - full report (March_2009)
- The keys to success: developing practice learning in police and prison services in the West Midlands - full report
- The transformation of adult social care and social worker roles: a literature informed discussion of policies and practice
- Unlocking doors: the keys to success - the further development of practice learning opportunities within police and prison settings in the West Midlands region - executive summary
- Unlocking doors: the keys to success - the further development of practice learning opportunities within the police and prison settings in the West Midlands - full report
- We help build social workers capabilities beyond initial competence to expertise - evaluation of a project to develop higher specialist expertise
- West Midlands sector skills agreement: regional action plan
- Win...win - developing and sustaining practice learning opportunities in black minority and ethnic voluntary organisations
- Workforce Insight Report 1 - Understanding turnover in the social care sector
- Workforce Insight_Report 2 - Understanding_turnover_in_social_care
- Workforce Insight Report_3 - The_3rd_sector_social_care_and_nmds-sc
Eastern
London
- Adult social care providers' peronalisation success stories
- Assessor network flyer
- Care ambassador leaflet 2010
- Developing the business case for post-qualifying awards in social care- a resource for learning and workforce development managers
- Funding streams for post-qualifying awards in social work
- Increasing choice: the challenges faced in becoming an independent broke (document 1 of 2)
- Increasing choice: working towards user-led brokerage (document 2 of 2)
- action - action learning case studiesaction - action learning case studies
- Learning disability knowledge set trainers toolkit
- Learning to transform services - a guide to action learning
- Learning to transform services (exec summary) - a guide to action learning
- Making sense of the post-qualifying awards - a brief guide for London employers
- New types of worker regional mapping report - executive summary
- New types of worker regional mapping report - October 2007
- NMDS-SC - a report on the NMDS-SC findings in London to date
- Personalising Care (New Types of Worker Executive Summary 2) - recent research into new ways of working: key messages about commissioning
- Personalising Care (New Types of Worker Executive Summary 3) - recent research into new ways of working: key messages about how social care is changing for managers and employers
- Post qualifying bulletin - January 2008
- Post qualifying bulletin - April 2008
- Post qualifying bulletin - July 2008
- Post qualifying bulletin - November 2008
- Post qualifying bulletin - February 2009
- Post qualifying bulletin - June 2009
- Post qualifying directory - a guide to post-qualifying programmes in the Greater London region
- Practice learning - benefits to your organisation - a brief guide to working with social work students
- Providing practice learning opportunities for social work students- a guide for schools
- Providing practice learning opportunities for social work students - a guide for voluntary, private and independent sector organisations
- Recruitment and Retention Newsletter - February 2011
- Recruitment and Retention Newsletter - October 2010
- The independent broker role and training requirements - a summary reportThe independent broker role and training requirements - a summary reportIncreasing choice: working towards user-led brokerage (document 2 of 2)
South East
- A guide for direct payment customers
- A guide to training personal assistants
- Considerations for gaining feedback from carers and people who use services during social work placements: a good practice guide
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Empowering through knowledge - a resource for social work education and training forums
- Getting started - a personal assistant toolkit
- How to involve people who use services and carers in social care education and training: a practical guide
- How to involve people who use services and carers in staff recruitment and development: a practical guide for employers
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by someone living with dementia
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by or for someone who may behave in ways that others find challenging
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by or for someone with Autistic Spectrum Condition
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by or for someone with a learning disability
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by or for someone with end of life care needs
- Supporting Me - a guide for personal assistants employed by or for someone with a mental health issue
