As part of the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force in the document ‘Building a safe and confident future’ the website for the National College of Social Work is accessible at the link below supported by SCIE’s communication and web services.
Interested parties are invited to engage in consultation from May 2010, which will shape the College’s future direction
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The Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex is carrying out research on access to social care for adults with autism spectrum disorders in England.
This research has been commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and sponsored by the Department of Health. It will inform and support the Department of Health strategy for Adults with autism spectrum disorders.
Read more and access the online survey via the NAS website http://www.autism.org.uk/
The consultation on the future strategy for adults with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) closed on 15 September 2009.
Over 1,100 responses were received, including people with ASC, families and carers, voluntary sector organisations and health and social care bodies.
This report highlights the findings from the consultation including the importance of training, awareness raising and better diagnosis pathways.
Download the response to the consultation here
The aim of this consultation is to enable stakeholders to consider the evidence gathered and to provide the opportunity to comment, in particular on:
* major gaps in the evidence gathered, including papers in the published literature that we have not been able to identify
* queries around the interpretation of the evidence, both of single studies and the reviewed material as a whole
* the applicability of the evidence and its usefulness for the development of guidance
* issues relating to equality
* issues relating to cost-effectiveness
The consultation on this evidence will run from 19 August to 17 September 2009
More information on the NICE webpage here
This publication has been updated to include recent legal cases and legislation changes such as the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
It describes the process of seeking consent, the importance of establishing whether the person has capacity to give consent, what constitutes valid consent, the form that consent might take and the duration of that consent.
It is available on the DH website here
Via the DH website
The Government wants to help everyone to have better mental health. The New Horizons consultation aims to help come up with an approach to make services for adults with mental health problems better in the future, and to help everyone have better mental health.
Consultation ends 15 October 2009
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Mentalhealth/NewHorizons/index.htm
There is also a Facebook discussion group that can be found here.
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is seeking comments from interested organisations and individuals concerning the National Framework for Reporting and Learning from Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation.
This document is the first release of a proposed new National Framework for the management of serious incidents (previously known as Serious Untoward Incidents/ SUIs) occurring in the NHS and those parts of the Independent Sector which provide NHS services in England .
The consultation opened on 14 August 2009 and runs until 13 November 2009.
More information can be found on the NPSA website here
CQC are currently developing a strategic plan for their work on mental health over the next three to five years. They are keen to get a range of views to help them develop this plan.
They are looking for peoples views as part the consultation on:
More information can be found here
Consultation and background info found here
