National Guidance and Inquiries

CONTENTS

• COVID Resources
• Department of Health and Social Care / HM Government
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
• Local Government Association (LGA)
• LGA and ADASS
• Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
• Skills for Care and Skills for Health
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
• Think Local, Act Personal
• Other Organisations

See also Provider Resources for Care Quality Commission Reports

COVID Resources

Coronavirus (COVID-19) (NHS)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) (UK Government)

Department of Health and Social Care / HM Government

• Accessible Information Standard: Making health and social care information accessible, NHS England
• Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance on Interviewing Victims and Witnesses, and Guidance on Using Special Measures (Ministry of Justice)
• Adult Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse: A Guide to Support Practitioners and Managers, Local Government Association
• A Vision for Adult Social Care – Think Local, Act Personal
• Bereavement Resources for the Social Care Workforce (DHSC)
• Blue Badge Scheme Local Authority Guidance (England)
• Care and Support Statutory Guidance, (DHSC)
• Digital Working in Adult Social Care: What Good Looks Like (DHSC)
• Discharging People at Risk of or Experiencing Homelessness (DHSC and DLUHC)
• Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance 2022, Home Office
• Female Genital Mutilation: Resource Pack, HM Government
• The Right to Choose: Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance for Dealing with Forced Marriage and Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines: Handling Cases of Forced Marriage (UK Government)
• Guidance for Developing a Local Suicide Prevention Action Plan: Information for Public Health Staff in Local Authorities, Public Health England, 
• Guidance: Forced Marriage, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office
• Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers, HM Government
• Improving healthcare access for people with learning disabilities (Public Health England)
• Health and Social Care Review: Leadership for a Collaborative and Inclusive Future (DHSC)
• Heatwave Plan for England (PHE, DHSC and NHS)
• Health and Wellbeing of the Adult Social Care Workforce (DHSC)
• Hospital Discharge and Community Support Guidance (DHSC)
• Managing Provider Failure chapter: Managing Care Home Closures: A Good Practice Guide for Local Authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Providers and Partners (NHS England et al)
• Mental Capacity Code of Practice, Office of the Public Guardian
• Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards – Code of Practice to supplement the main Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice, Ministry of Justice
• Mental Health Act 1983: Code of Practice, Department of Health
• Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat: Improving Outcomes for People Experiencing Mental Health Crisis, HM Government
• Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance on Female Genital Mutilation, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care and Home Office
• National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care (DHSC)
• Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and Supporting Guidance, NHS England
• Post-qualifying Standards for Social Work Practice Supervisors in Adult Social Care
• Proportionate assessment approaches: a guide from the Chief Social Worker for Adults, principal social workers and principal occupational therapists (DHSC)
• Revisiting Safeguarding Practice (DHSC) 
• Right Care, Right Person (RCRP): National Partnership Agreement (HM Government et al)
• Safe and Wellbeing Reviews: Thematic Review and Lessons Learned (NHS England)
• Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years – Statutory Guidance for Organisations who work with and support Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Department for Education and Department of Health
• Social Work Practice with Carers (Research in Practice for Adults, Department of Health and Social Care)
• Statutory guidance for Local Authorities and NHS organisations to support implementation of the Adult Autism Strategy
• Strengths-Based Approach: Practice Framework and Practice Handbook (DHSC)
• The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism (NHS England)
• What’s important to me: A Review of Choice in End of Life Care, The Choice in End of Life Care Programme Board
• What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners (Department for Education)
• Working Together to Safeguard Children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, HM Government

Home Office

• Channel Guidance (Home Office)
• Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

• Homelessness code of guidance for local authorities

Other National Guidance

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)

• Safeguarding Standards: A National Framework of Standards for Good Practice and Outcomes in Adult Protection Work, ADASS 

Local Government Association (LGA)

• The Care Act 2014: Ten Years on from Royal Assent
• Resources to support Making Safeguarding Personal

LGA and ADASS

• Ordinary Resident Guide
• Promoting Less Restrictive Practice: Reducing Restrictions Tool for Practitioners

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

Guidance for Practitioners: Deprivation of Capital

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

See also NICE Quick Guides on social care topics

• Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis and management
• Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges
• Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services
• Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers
• Dementia: supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
• Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own home
• Intermediate care including reablement
• Managing medicines in care homes
• Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management
• Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions
• Oral health for adults in care homes
• People’s experience in adult social care services: improving the experience of care and support for people using adult social care services
• Social Work with Adults Experiencing Complex Needs: Guidance (NICE)
• Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs
• Transition between inpatient mental health and community and care home settings
• Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services

Skills for Care and Skills for Health

• Care Certificate
• Minimum Standards
• Inspection Toolkit
• Skills for Health: Standards
• Skills for Care

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

• Assessment: Financial crime against vulnerable adults
• Care Act 2014
• Co-production: What it is and how to do it (SCIE)
• Dignity in Care
• Examples of Co-production in Social Care (animated film, SCIE)
• Gaining access to an adult suspected to be at risk of neglect or abuse
• Safeguarding Adults: Sharing Information 
• Self-neglect at a glance
• Shared Lives: Resources for Social Workers

Think Local, Act Personal

Individual Service Funds (ISFs) and Contracting for Flexible Support Practice guidance to support implementation of the Care Act 2014 

Other Organisations

• Better Care Fund, Local Government Association
• Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years on, Institute of Health Equity
• Examples of Reasonable Adjustments in Practice. Equality and Human Rights Commission
• Time Away From Caring: Good Practice in Carer Breaks – Resources – Carers Trust
• Whistleblowing Guidance for Workers and Employers in Health and Social Care, Whistleblowing Helpline