ESSS Outlines

Summarises evidence relating to the effectiveness of women specific interventions in addressing complex needs and the role they may play as preventative strategies in children's services.

Explores the evidence around integrated assessment in children's services, including children's and families' experiences of the assessment process, good practice, electronic information systems, data protection, privacy and the potential impacts of surveillance.

Looks at how the diverse needs of disabled people can be addressed in an organisation’s values statement. It also summarises evidence on the values that can support the workforce in delivering quality disability services, and how these values can be integrated in the third sector.

Explores evidence around the outcomes of involvement in social enterprises for young people with additional support needs.

Summarises evidence relating to participation frameworks for children and young people in social care, including examples of good practice as well as specific contexts, such as in child protection, and with BAME and disabled youth.

Explores the involvement of service users in quality assurance and service evaluation processes and identifies potential benefits and approaches to service user participation.

Explores the evidence around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), their impact on educational outcomes and what interventions may be effective.

Looks at the limited available evidence on how the social care workforce in Scotland can be further developed to deliver self-directed support.

Examines a wide-range of materials on how community-based interventions have been effective in supporting young people's social and emotional wellbeing.

Focuses on evidence of the indirect impact on children from living with the effect of adult to adult coercive control.