ESSS Outlines

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.

Identifies evidence around good practice approaches to investigating child sexual abuse that may minimise harm or distress to children and non-abusing caregivers.

Identifies evidence relating to the efficacy of interventions in increasing reporting of disability hate crimes and supporting people through the process of reporting, and potential areas of unmet need.