Other practice standards for social workers:
- The Social Worker registration standards set out the base-line of what social workers must do
- The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) provides an overarching framework of capabilities for all types of social work at all stages of your career from student through to strategic social worker.
- The Knowledge and Skills Statement (KSS) for social workers in adult services sets out what social workers must be able to know and do when they have completed their first assessed and supported year in employment.
- The Capabilities Statement for social work with adults who have a learning disability is similar to the Capabilities Statement for social work with older people. It also sets out specific capabilities that are more detailed than those in the PCF, which are needed to provide excellent social work to this particular group.
Other Research in Practice for Adults social work learning and development sites:
- Social work with carers
- Social work with people living with dementia
- Social work in situations of coercive control
- Outcomes-focused social work
Other organisations that provide guidance and learning for social workers:
- British Association of Social Workers – professional association for social workers in the UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – organisation that develops research-based guidelines for health and social care
- Skills for Care – organisation that supports employers to develop the social care workforce
- Social Care Institute for Excellence – organisation that provides research and resources for the social care workforce
Useful sites relating to older people:
- Age UK – organisation that provides advice and support for older people
- Carers Trust – organisation that provides support to carers
- Carers UK – organisation that provides support to carers
- Centre for Policy on Ageing – organisation that promotes the interests of older people through research, policy analysis and the dissemination of inform
- My Home Life – organisation that provides information to promote excellence in care homes
- Housing LIN – organisation that provides information about housing
- The Kings Fund – organisation that provides resources and information about health and social care
- Independent Age – organisation that provides advice and support for older people
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation – organisation that works to solve UK poverty
