Author
Karin Crawford

Pub Date: Oct 2011  

Pages: 208pp

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Karin Crawford

Relevant weblinks

The internet provides a bewildering range of material and resources, here you can go straight to a website that complements the material in the chapters.

Please note that with ongoing changes in governmental structures and the
internet sources that reflect them, the web links provided here may change and you
may be redirected to other relevant sites.

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF )
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk
Within the website section on ‘integrated working’, the Department for Children,
Schools and Families (DCSF) have located these informative pages on ‘information
sharing’. Here you will find access to guidance, a DVD, factsheets and an information
sharing quiz. Whilst this particular site and its materials are specifically related to
Every Child Matters, the underlying issues and principles are transferable to all
aspects of social work practice. Crucially, the site includes freely downloadable
‘Information sharing: Guidance for practitioner and managers’ (DCSF 2008).

Department of Health, Care Networks
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/Personalisation
The Web pages of the ‘Putting People First’, Personalisation Network are within the
DH Care Networks site. DH Care Networks, as part of the Department of Health,
lead on the Putting People First (DoH 2007) agenda, in particular integration and
whole system reform, housing with care, assistive technology and partnership
working. The Personalisation Network pages offer a wealth of resources related to
change in the Adult Social Care system, including guidance and case study examples.
Higher Education Academy Social Policy and Social

Work Subject Centre (SWAP)
http://www.swap.ac.uk
The website of the Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre (SWAP) of the
Higher Education Academy has a range of resources, including project reports and
help sheets to support interprofessional learning and collaborative working.

Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA)
http://www.idea.gov.uk
The Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA) was established by and for
local government in April 1999. The organisation works by providing practical
solutions to help local councils improve their services. IDEA is a knowledge resource
applicable across all council services, but in relation to social care, it is a useful
reference point for adult social care, education and children’s services in particular.

Integrated Care Network (ICN)
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/icn/
The Integrated Care Network (ICN) Web pages provide a range of freely downloadable
resources. The ICN provides information and support for organisations and seeks to
improve the quality of provisions to service users, patients and carers by integrating
the planning and delivery of services. The ICN facilitate communication between
agencies and government so that policy and practice inform each other.

Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk
Intute was formerly known as the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and offers
a range of resources, not specifically related to social work, but more broadly about
social research. Within the social sciences, social welfare section of the site you will
find many useful resources, including tutorials on research skills, Web links, blogs,
papers, articles and reports.

The King’s Fund
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk
The King’s Fund is an independent charitable foundation whose goal is to improve
health care. The King’s Fund undertakes research and studies in health and social
care, particularly in mental health, doing a considerable amount of work that
involves service users and their carers.

Making Research Count (MRC)
http://www.makingresearchcount.org.uk
Making Research Count (MRC) was established in 1998 to promote knowledgeinformed
practice. It is a national, collaborative research dissemination initiative currently run by ten regional centres based at universities. The partnership promotes knowledge-informed practice and improved services in social work and social care
and its interface with health.

National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU)
http://www.nmhdu.org.uk
The National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU), launched in April 2009,
consists of a small central team and a range of programmes funded both by the
Department of Health and the NHS to provide national support for implementing
mental health policy by advising on national and international best practice to
improve mental health and mental health services. The site has a useful downloads
and resources section and a page with further relevant links.

Research in Practice
http://www.rip.org.uk
Research in Practice is the largest children and families research implementation
project in England and Wales. Its mission is to promote positive outcomes for children
and families through the use of research evidence. This busy site provides access
to research resources, an ‘evidence bank’ and a range of research and publication
updates.

Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA)
http://www.ripfa.org.uk
Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA) describes itself as ‘a national research
utilisation organisation for adult social care’. Its mission is to promote the use
of evidence-informed practice in the planning and delivery of adult social care
services. The website provides access to publications, policy updates and research
links.

Shaping Our Lives
http://www.shapingourlives.org.uk
On the home page of their website, the national user network, Shaping Our Lives
explains that it is an independent user-controlled organisation that started as a
research and development project and became an independent organisation in 2002.
You can download publications and information about projects on
user participation and related research from this website.

Skills for Care – New types of worker
http://www.newtypesofworker.co.uk
This site relates specifically to practitioners who work with adult service users across
the whole spectrum of the adult social care workforce. As I write this book, the site
would be largely of interest to employers as much of the content relates to wider
workforce developments. However, it is very likely that as the role of social workers
and social care workers more broadly changes and develops, this site will become
more relevant to individual workers. That being said, there are a number of links
from this site that you may find very useful.

Smarter Partnerships
http://www.lgpartnerships.com
The Employers’ Organisation for local government have established this website
to support learning and skills development in effective collaborative working. The
site offers a range of interactive resources, including ‘toolkits’ to help you assess the
strengths and needs, including learning and skills needs, of a particular partnership.
There are also a number of case studies, checklist and other resources relevant to
developing partnerships and the skills for collaborative working.

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
http://www.scie.org.uk
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by the government
in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United
Kingdom. It offers a wealth of resources and publications that are usually free and
downloadable. You are encouraged to explore the whole site, but particularly the
‘Resources and Publications’ pages which will take you to e-learning resources about
interprofessional and interagency collaboration.

Social Research Unit
http://www.dartington.org.uk
The Social Research Unit is an independent charity dedicated to improving the health
and development of children, primarily in Europe and North America. Much of their work has a clear outcomes focus, as discussed in Chapter 7 of this book. Again
on this site, there are numerous resources, blogs, interactive features and downloads
available.

UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional
Education (CAIPE)
http://www.caipe.org.uk
The UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE)
is a national and international resource for interprofessional education in both
universities and the workplace across health and social care. It has a close association
with the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Its website provides information and
advice, bulletins, papers and links.