SSRG Annual Workshop 2008

1. SSRG Annual Workshop 2008 SCIE’s role in making a difference Julie Jones Chief Executive, SCIE 9 April 2008

2. Challenges facing the sector • Delivering the children’s plan • Transforming adult social care • Resource pressures • Including efficiency savings • Local government and NHS environment • Demography • Public expectations • Political context – local and national • Public sector reform

3. SCIE’s 3 year strategy • Support the transformation of social care services to enable adults to lead full and independent lives • Support the delivery of services to transform the lives of families and their children • Raise the status of social care through a workforce that learns and innovates

4. SCIE: a brief history • Launched in October 2001 as part of Government's drive to improve social care • An independent body (registered charity, governed by a Board of 15 trustees) • Regarded as key part of national architecture of social care bodies • Some significant achievements • e.g. user and carer involvement • Transforming social care • Children’s plan

5. The Minister’s five-point plan • A Skills Academy for adult social care • Asking SCIE to create a new system by the end of the year for identifying and disseminating best practice • High prestige journal for social care • A new national social care board • Building on existing award schemes to recognise excellence & innovation

6. SCIE’s IDDI strategy The proposed new strategic framework for identifying and disseminating evidence based good practice (IDDI): • Identification • Dissemination • Development • Innovation & Improvement

7. SCIE’s role in promoting research • Commitment to evidence-based policy and practice improvement • SCIE supports social care research, and sees social work research as a core part of social care research • With HEI help we have had a number of successes e.g. in generating systematic reviews relevant to: • NICE/SCIE guidelines on dementia • parental mental health • the mental and physical health of looked after children • UK Social Care Research Collaboration • National Social Care Research Ethics Committee • Strategic coordinator for social care and social work research

8. Other types of knowledge • Organisational knowledge • Practitioner knowledge • Policy maker’s knowledge • The knowledge of experts by experience

9. Research is not always the main ingredient • Slow pace of the evidence cycle • Attention to economic evaluation in social care is lacking

10. What will be different – for SCIE ? • SCIE’s role - leading, strategy-building – as well as delivering products • Identifying good practice • Innovation – a stronger focus • Dissemination – new models, new frameworks • A cross-sector approach – much closer working with partners • Blending our different skills and expertise in new ways • Flexing and changing existing work

11. Identifying good practice To support: • Improved outcomes for people who use services and carers • Increased sector confidence in using, creating and demonstrating evidence based practice (supervision, appraisal, registration, service review, inspection) • Increased commissioning of relevant research for practice • Sector-wide generation of new knowledge

12. Dissemination of good practice • National strategic framework • Regional support • New journal for social care • Innovation • Independent sector

13. SCIE’s contribution Three priorities: • Transformation of adult services-personalisation • Support the delivery of the Children’s plan and C4EO • High status and innovative workforce Delivered through: • Capture and co-production of knowledge - partnership • Communicating knowledge and evidence - marketing • Catalyst for change and delivery - maximise impact Building: • Reputation and credibility

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