ESSS Outlines

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.

Summarises evidence around good practice in palliative and end of life care for people with alcohol related brain damage (ARBD).

Explores the challenges facing local authorities when seeking to implement brokerage models of self directed support in rural Scottish communities.

Identifies evidence around recruitment strategies from voluntary social care and other relevant sectors and industries.

Explores distributed approaches to leadership in the context of childcare and early years settings. It provides some background to Scottish policy priorities and principles of leadership and distributed approaches.

Identifies evidence around social work placements and the differences and similarities between statutory and voluntary placements.

Identifies evidence relating to the relationship between adults who access child sexual abuse images online and those who commit contact offences.

Explores the impact of parental substance misuse on children and identifies evidence around effective methods of intervention for social workers.