Keynote:
Learning Event : Knowledge exchange workshop
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) London
06 June 2017
Learning Event : Research messages workshop
Engineers' House Bristol
19 September 2017
LEADERS' FORUM
ASTON CONFERENCE BIRMINGHAM
28 SEPTEMBER 2017
Learning Event : Research messages workshop
The Studio Manchester Manchester
11 October 2017
15 July 2016
22 May 2017
16 May 2017
15 May 2017
We bring together evidence from research, practitioner expertise and the experience of people accessing services to provide learning and development support for the health and social care sector.
Our Delivery Programme shows the full calendar of learning events and resources for the forthcoming year.
Practice Tools and Guides
These open access learning resources support social work practice with people living with dementia, focusing on five practice principles: Start with the person Maintain a relationship Involve support...
Strategic Briefings
As more services are commissioned by local authorities within the context of reducing resources, it can be a challenging time for the relationship between commissioners and providers. This briefing ex...
Practice Tools and Guides
When working with people and their families at the end of their life it is important that we work in a way that enables people to have the best possible experience of death. Practitioners can feel unc...
Strategic Briefings
People with learning disabilities or autism have consistently poorer outcomes in areas such as health, life expectancy and quality of life. What kind of social care systems can help to even out these ...
Customer Guides
Councils have to ensure that people who are unable to make their own decisions about where they live are safeguarded from having their liberty restricted. It is essential that the public, families and...
Customer Guides
Sometimes people who have, for example, dementia, a learning disability, mental illness or a brain injury, are unable to make decisions. Short term conditions like concussion or having a urinary tract...
Frontline resources
Adults with learning disabilities aspire to have intimate relationships as most people do, yet often describe feeling lonely. Practice has traditionally focused on ‘keeping people safe’ by limitin...
Frontline resources
The NHS estimates that between two and five per cent of adults in the UK may have symptoms of a hoarding disorder. Social care practitioners may have a role to play in supporting people who hoard. Thi...
Policy Scopes
Leaders' Briefings
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