Transcript SCIE - Social Services Research Group

SSRG Annual Workshop 2008
SCIE’s role in making a
difference
Julie Jones
Chief Executive, SCIE
9 April 2008
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
SCIE’s 3 year strategy
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Support the transformation of social care
services to enable adults to lead full and
independent lives
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Support the delivery of services to transform
the lives of families and their children
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Raise the status of social care through a
workforce that learns and innovates
SCIE: a brief history
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Launched in October 2001 as part of Government's
drive to improve social care
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An independent body (registered charity, governed by
a Board of 15 trustees)
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Regarded as key part of national architecture of
social care bodies
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Some significant achievements
 e.g. user and carer involvement
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Transforming social care
Children’s plan
The Minister’s five-point plan
1. A Skills Academy for adult social care
2. Asking SCIE to create a new system by the end
of the year for identifying and disseminating
best practice
3. High prestige journal for social care
4. A new national social care board
5. Building on existing award schemes to recognise
excellence & innovation
SCIE’s IDDI strategy
The proposed new strategic framework for identifying
and disseminating evidence based good practice
(IDDI):
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Identification
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Dissemination
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Development
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Innovation & Improvement
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:
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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
Other types of knowledge
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Organisational knowledge
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Practitioner knowledge
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Policy maker’s knowledge
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The knowledge of experts by experience
Research is not always the main
ingredient
 Slow pace of the evidence cycle
 Attention to economic evaluation in
social care is lacking
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
Identifying good practice
To support:
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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
Dissemination of good practice
 National strategic framework
 Regional support
 New journal for social care
 Innovation
 Independent sector
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
Further information
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