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Scottish National Bodies:

• The Scottish Government
  “The Government is working in partnership with service users, carers, local authorities, the NHS, the Care Commission and the voluntary and independent sectors to improve community care services across Scotland.”

• Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education
  “The inspections and reviews carried out by HMIE, allied to meaningful self-evaluation, are central parts of the approach to quality improvement in Scottish education. The effective combination of these two processes constitutes a powerful means of identifying strengths and priorities for improvement across the system.”

• The Care Commission
  The Care Commission was “set up in April 2002 under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 to regulate all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland.”

• Community Health Partnerships Research Published
  A study commissioned by the Scottish Government to consider the early progress of Community Health Partnerships was published on 7th May. This research ran from February 2009 to March 2010 and identifies factors which have facilitated or possibly hindered progress and identifies ways in which CHPs’ capacity and capability can be improved to maximise their potential.

• Glasgow City Council Social Work Department: Personilisation and Self Directed Support
  Glasgow City Council Social Work Department has published a raft of
  documents on its website providing detailed guidance on Personalisation and
  Self Directed Support for providers and service users.

• The Office of Public Guardian (Scotland)
  “The Office of the Public Guardian has a general function to supervise those individuals who have been appointed to manage the financial or property affairs of an adult who lacks the capacity to do so for themselves.”

• Pathways for Support for Vulnerable Families in Scotland
  NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is consulting on a Framework looking at pathways for support for vulnerable families in Scotland. The framework will help implement or improve local pathways within and across various service settings. The consultation is open until 11th June.

• Proactive, Planned and Coordinated: Care Management in Scotland
  The Scottish Government Health Delivery Directorate Improvement and Support Team has published this guidance document to support the implementation of a Proactive, Planned and Coordinated approach to the care of people with complex or frequently changing health and social care needs.

• Scottish Information Commissioner
  Freedom of Information and the Voluntary Sector
  The SIC provides a “short guide to freedom of information (FOI) rights for voluntary organisations and campaign groups - how to use the right and how to appeal, along with some useful examples of where FOI has been successfully used in the past.”

• Self-Directed Support Scotland (SDSS)
  “SDSS was set up to provide peer support to existing and evolving Self Directed Support Organisations.”

Other Scottish Organisations

• Community Care Works
  “Community Care Works continues the research, policy and teaching activities initially developed with funding from the Nuffield Trust within The Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies. The focus is on the evaluation, promotion and dissemination of community care policy and practice. There is a commitment to a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency perspective.”
• The Glasgow Centre for the Child and Society
  “The Glasgow Centre for the Child & Society works alongside governments, policy makers and NGOs to effect improvement in the lives of children and young people. It acts as a bridge between academic study and the worlds of policy and practice.”
• Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector’s Employers’ Advice Service
  “The EAS offers advice, information and briefing sessions on every aspect of being or becoming an employer. The Employers Advice Service is subscription-based, providing telephone and face-to-face advice and consultancy to managers, CEOs and board members.”
• Institution for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS)
  “The mission of IRISS is to promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland’s social services by enhancing the capacity and capability of the social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge & research for service innovation & improvement.”
• The Mental Health Collaborative Programme
  The Mental Health Collaborative Newsletter aims to provide a regular source of information on the work of the Mental Health Collaborative. A lot of improvement work is happening across the mental health service in Scotland and this newsletter will provide an overview of both local and national initiatives. (Download the latest newsletter)
• Scottish Child Law Centre (SCLC)
  “SCLC are the only Law Centre in Scotland that works exclusively for children and young people. (They) provide services throughout the whole of Scotland.”
• Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC)
  “The Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) was established in 2000 with the aim of ensuring that residential child care staff throughout Scotland have access to the skills and knowledge they require to meet the needs of the children and young people in their care. SIRCC is a partnership of the University of Strathclyde, The Robert Gordon University, Langside College and Who Cares? Scotland.”
• Scottish Social Services Learning Network West
  “Scottish Social Services Learning Network West supports the learning and development of the social services workforce in the West of Scotland.”
• Service User and Carer Group
  The Service User and Carer Group “are a group of volunteers with experience of using social work services or caring for someone who uses social work services.  The network was formed in 2006 with the aim of influencing the training of social work students.  The network is doing this by raising awareness of service user and carer issues.”