SSRG Scotland: Improving Services
for Children: Developments in Inspection and Performance
Indicators
Monday 13 June 2005
Old Viewforth, Stirling
The aim of this event was to address a range of
contemporary policy and practice issues that have
emerged from recent legislation and initiatives
such as 'Changing
Lives' and how agencies are tackling these.
Key themes included:
- information sharing;
- getting evidence into practice,
- involving service users,
- performance assessment,
- partnership working across social care, health
and other agencies
As part of the programme, we also be looked
at how various projects that include the use of
technology are being used to improve practice and
performance, for example to:
- disseminate research findings and other information:
- facilitate benchmarking etc of performance
information
- facilitate user and carer involvement
Dowloads:
Details of Presentations: Monday 12th
June
- Changing
Lives - The Challenge Facing
21st Century Social Work (76kb PowerPoint)
Michael Proctor Head
of Service Development Team, Social Work
Services Policy Division, Scottish Executive
- Where's
the Evidence? A National Research and Development
Strategy for Social Services in Scotland (237kb
PowerPoint)
Fiona Hodgkiss Education
Department SE and Bryan Williams Director, Scottish
Institute for Excellence in Social Work
Education
- Firm
Foundations: More than words- What must Organisations
do to Support Evidence - Informed Practice? (508kb
PowerPoint)
Celia Atherton and Rhiannon
Hodson Research in Practice
- Knowledge Management: Integrating
National and Local Knowledge for Practice
Development
Mark Watson, Head of
CareKnowledge and Beryl Middleton, Section
Head, Quality Assurance and Training, West
Dunbartonshire Department of Social Work
Services.
- IncludeMe: Working Together Makes
a Difference!
Christine Lewington and Kim
Bolton, Worcestershire County
Council
- Involving
Service Users and Carers
User and Carer Panel, 21 st Century
Social Work Review (2.47MB - large
file - PowerPoint)
- Plenary: Social
Work Reviewed and Revised (70kb PowerPoint)
Ray Jones, Chair BASW
- Discussion:
The Performance Improvement Framework (37kb
PowerPoint)
Led by Sandy Cameron
Details of Presentations: Tuesday
13 th June
