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SSRG Annual Workshop 2008

In her speech at the 2008 SSRG Annual Workshop, Julie Jones, Chief Executive of SCIE, discusses the pressing challenges facing social care, including resource pressures, demographic changes, and rising public expectations. She outlines SCIE's three-year strategy focused on enabling adults to lead independent lives and transforming services for families and children. Highlighting SCIE's commitment to evidence-based practices, the talk emphasizes the importance of innovation, collaboration, and a workforce that learns and adapts to evolving needs in social care.

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SSRG Annual Workshop 2008

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  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

  14. Further information • Sign up for email alerts www.scie.org.uk • Visit Social Care Online via www.scie.org.uk • Give us your feedback info@scie.org.uk

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