Health, public health and social care – for adults and children.
This briefing explores how we facilitate co-production from a strengths perspective to ensure that older people are able to access the right help at the right time in the right place when needed, and to ensure that the voice of the older person is heard in service design.
UKactive’s report Moving More, Ageing Well looks at the physical and wider social benefits of active ageing, and outlines the opportunities and challenges associated with increasing advice and provision for physical activity for older people.
A year after the new arrangements for specifying the provision needed for children with significant Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), the DfE commissioned research on the perceptions of parents and children of the new Education, Health and Care Plans. This briefing is on the results of the research.
Improving mental health services is a key policy issue. There is also growing recognition that rural contexts, whilst a core component of addressing mental ill health, have been widely overlooked in Scotland.
Thriving at Work explores the significant cost of poor mental health to the economy and recommends that all employers, regardless of size or industry, should adopt six “mental health core standards” that lay basic foundations for an approach to workplace mental health.
On Your Radar November provides information on relevant government consultations, select committee inquiries and legislation. We also look at the current political agenda and the implications for local government in the immediate and longer term.
In Ireland the use of temporary accommodation B&Bs by local authorities has been questioned by homelessness charities as not appropriate long-term approach. Here, we examine strategies local authorities in Scotland are considering and ask whether Scotland can have confidence homelessness will be addressed.
The Children and Social Work Act 2017 requires new arrangements for the local safeguarding of children. This DfE consultation asks questions about implementing the new arrangements for reviews of serious safeguarding cases, transition from the Local Safeguarding Children Boards, and managing child death reviews. Significant revisions of the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children…
In August 2016, Theresa May launched an audit of racial diversity in public services. The audit’s initial report, published on October 2017, was headline news. What does the audit tell us about diversity and what does it say about the way forward for the public sector on this crucial issue? .
The health, public health and social care round-up summarises new policy, research and publications that are relevant to elected members and officers interested in health and social care.