Links and Gateways
Compiled by Jon Bolton, August 1998-January 2000
Updated by Elizabeth McDade, April 2000
Please note the following:
- When there are many users trying to visit a site, contact may be impossible, and should be attempted again later.
- Every effort has been made to ensure that this list is up to date, but some sites do change address, and often at very short notice.
- While every care has been taken, I accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the information in the list.
- Site Addresses are arranged in alphabetical order, by section headings.
- Some addresses may be in more than one section heading to ease cross-referencing.
Updates to this list can be found at www.jon.bolton.org/sites
STOP PRESS
Scottish Executive consultation document ""Regulating Care and the Social Services Workforce"
www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc10/rcsw-00.asp
Consultation which ended on 10 March 2000 seeks views as part of the process of developing the necessary legislation to establish a new Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and a Scottish Social Services Council
Caredata ABSTRACTS
www.nisw.org.uk/cdab.html
Each month caredata ABSTRACTS provides details of over 250 journal articles, monographs, reports, central and local publications and other hard to find literature.
ADSW Management Resource Pack on Supporting Front Line Staff
www.researchweb.org.uk/adswmrp/adswmrp
This site covers topics such as stress management, violence and the threat of violence at work, absenteeism, managing the change ahead, maximising the time spent with people and minimising the time spent on administration.
ResearchWeb
www.researchweb.org.uk
Established with funding from the Scottish Executive, this site is designed to be up-to-date information tool for the informed social work professional. The type of information and research is designed to be concise but thorough and always selected with practice in mind.
Aiming for Excellence: A White Paper Modernising Social Work Services in Scotland
www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents-w7/sswp-00.htm
The Scottish Executive National Review of Services for People with Learning Disabilities
www.scotland.gov.uk/ldsr/
The review has gathered information about social and health care and services for adults and children with a learning Disability. Drawing on the outcome of this Review, the Scottish Executive will build a strategic framework for the development of social and health care for adults and children with learning difficulties which recognises the importance of access to other relevant services and opportunities.
Royal Commission on Long-Term Care of The Elderly
www.open.gov.uk/royal-commission-elderly/
Contains the final report of the commission, minutes of proceedings of oral evidence hearings on 24 September 99, chairman's press release, list of members, terms of reference, and a section on frequently asked questions.
ADVICE
Citizens Advice Bureau http://www.nacab.org.uk/l
Site of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux proving advice on a variety of subjects including social security, employment, discrimination, rural matters, consumer and debt, immigration, health, tax, housing, legal matters, community care.
Citizens Advice Bureau : reports and briefings http://www.nacab.org.uk/index_2.html
Reports and briefing from the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureau
London Advice Services Alliance http://www.lasa.org.uk/
Website of the London Advice Services Alliance providing a central source of help and information for those who work in the advice field. Includes RightsNet which give access to social security information on-line, including news on benefit matters, articles, a discussion form and FAQs.
The Site - Advice http://www.thesite.org/advice
The site is produced and managed by YouthNet UK, a small registered charity. It is designed to connect, principally young people in the UK to the best information, help and advice available. It tries to enable people to make informed decisions for themselves and strive to be the best they can.
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