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- About the People Management website – English
- Absence Management toolkit for employers
- Academy of Care Practitioners – Wales
- ACAS checklist for handling a disciplinary matter (document)
- Action on Elder Abuse (organisation)
- Adoption Leave (document)
- Advertising agencies: the advantages and challenges of working with them (document)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) (organisation)
- Age Concern (organisation)
- Age Positive (government agency)
- Ambient advertising
- Ashridge Centre for Business and Society (ACBAS)
- Association for Care Training and Assessment Networks (organisation)
- Association for Real Change (ARC) (organisation)
- Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS) (organisation)
- At One With Volunteers: ADSS and the National Centre for Volunteering (policy statement)
- Basic Skills – BBC learning website
- Basic Skills Assessment Method
- British Quality Foundation (organisation)
- Bullying and harassment at work: a guide (document)
- Business Eye (organisation)
- Care Ambassadors Scheme (organisation)
- Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (organisation)
- Care Council for Wales: careers information
- Care Forum Wales (organisation)
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Careconnect learning
- Carers UK
- Carers, Employment and Services: time for a new social contract? (report)
- Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (organisation)
- Ceretas (organisation)
- Championing Children – set of leadership behaviours (document)
- Championing Children Toolkit
- Changing roles and relationships – Workshop notes and resources (SCIE National Conference 2007)
- Changing status, changing lives – research on migrant workers
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (organisation)
- Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI)
- Children Now (magazine)
- Children’s Workforce Induction Standards
- Children's Trusts effective practice
- Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
- Children's Workforce Development Council for England
- Children's Workforce Strategy (policy document)
- Choice Forum (interactive forum)
- CIPD Factsheet – discipline and grievances at work
- CIPD factsheet on employing overseas workers
- CIPD Factsheet on Selection Interviewing
- CIPD Factsheets on Recruitment and Selection
- CIPD Guide to Bullying at Work
- Code of Practice for Wales (policy document)
- Codes of practice for social care workers and employers: England and Wales (document)
- Commission for Equality and Human Rights (Government agency)
- Commission for Social Care Inspection (organisation)
- Common Induction Standards for Adult Social Care
- Community Care (magazine)
- Complaints about service provision (document)
- Counsel + Care (organisation)
- Cranfield School of Management (university)
- Crossing borders – Audit Commission report
- CSCI Professional – website
- CSR Europe (organisation)
- CWDC Induction Standards for Childrens Social Care
- Department of Health Code of Practice for International Recruitment
- Department of Health guidance on good practice for user involvement
- Department of Health Social Care Careers website
- Department of Health social care information (document)
- Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS NI)
- Department of Health: human resources and training information (Government department)
- Department of Health: information for social care (Government department)
- Department of Health: organisation policy information (Government department)
- Department of Health: policy and guidance
- Department of Health: social care best practice information (Government department)
- Department of Trade & Industry (Government department)
- Developing effective approach to user involvement – workshop notes
- Developing social care – service users driving culture change
- Developing social care: service users' vision for adult support
- Direct Payments: a guide (document)
- Doing it for themselves: participation and black and minority ethnic service users
- Effective support and supervision (document)
- Effective team working indicators (document)
- Embedding service user and carer participation – Workshop notes and resources (SCIE National Conference 2007)
- Employers for Carers (forum)
- Employing People: a handbook for small firms
- Employment in social care in Europe (report)
- Employment service for migrant workers – website
- End of Life Care Strategy (document)
- Ending employment
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- EURES – job mobility portal
- European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions (organisation)
- European Mentoring and Coaching Council (organisation)
- Extending the right to request flexible working to carers for adults
- Fixed-term contracts: a guide (document)
- General Social Care Council
- General Social Care Council – Country assessment guidelines
- General Social Care Council – Workers from abroad
- General Social Care Council (charity)
- Getting started in Social Work
- Green Paper on Adult Social Care 2005
- Grievance at work (document)
- Guidelines on supporting and developing practice learning (document)
- Has service user participation made a difference to social care services? (Report)
- Headway
- Health and Care NI
- Health and Safety Executive (Government agency)
- Health and Safety Executive: work-related stress (Government agency)
- Health and Safety Executive: workplace related violence (Government agency)
- Health Matters (magazine)
- Health Promotion Agency (Northern Ireland)
- HPSS Jobs
- HR Directors Club (organisation)
- I care… a Skills for Care recruitment resource (website)
- Improvement and Development Agency (Government agency)
- In control – website for self directed support
- Inclusion Europe (organisation)
- Independent Sector Home Care Provision in Northern Ireland: Workforce and Training Issues
- Induction checklist (document)
- Induction: a basic guide to the principles of good induction (document)
- Information Commissioner's Office (Government agency)
- Institute of Directors (organisation)
- Institute of Employment Studies (organisation)
- Institute of Leadership & Management (organisation
- Institute of Management Consultancy (organisation)
- International Association for Human Resource Management (organisation)
- International recruitment and increasing learning about other cultures: Kathryn Kelly, IDeA
- International recruitment: new developments in 2008
- Interviewer's dos and don'ts checklist (document)
- Invest Northern Ireland
- Invitation to a disciplinary hearing: an example (document)
- Job boards (document)
- Jobcentre Plus (Government agency)
- Leader to Leader Institute (organisation)
- Leadership and Management Strategy for the Social Care Workforce (policy document)
- Leadership and Vision – Workshop notes and resources (SCIE National Conference 2007)
- Leading practice, a development programme for first-line managers (SCIE resources)
- Learning and development toolkit for the mental health workforce
- Learning and Skills Development Agency – Northern Ireland
- Learning for Living
- Learning organisations: a self assessment resource pack
- Leavers checklist (document)
- Leavers: a basic guide to the implications and main issues of managing leavers (document)
- Local Government Employers (organisation)
- Lost to the System? The Impact of Fair Access to Care (document)
- Low cost advertising (document)
- Making Ends Meet: a website for managing money in social services (website)
- Making Research Count (workshop notes)
- Management First (organisation)
- Management Issues (organisation)
- Managing conflict at work (document)
- Managing employees who are pregnant or new parents
- Managing poor performance (document)
- Maternity Rights
- Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide – A Learning and Development Toolkit
- Migration strategies and the motivation of migrant workers
- Modernising Workforce Planning (Website)
- Move On – Basic skills tests
- National Minimum Standards (document)
- National Occupational Standards
- National Occupational Standards for Wales
- National Occupational Standards in Intercultural Working for the UK (document)
- National Organisation for Practice Teaching (organisation)
- NATOPSS – Learn to Care (organisation)
- New Types of Worker (document)
- New Ways of Working (website)
- Newspapers and trade press (document)
- Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young people (NICCY)
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
- Northern Ireland Post Qualifying Education & Training Partnership
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Ofsted (organisation)
- OPM leadership documents
- Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network (organisation)
- Participation – finding out what difference it makes
- Paternity leave (document)
- Performance appraisal in a nutshell (document)
- Personnel Today (publication and website)
- Planning for Caring (policy document)
- Preventing Illegal Working (document)
- Providing effective supervision (document)
- Public Concern at Work (organisation)
- Quality frameworks (document)
- Racial Equality and the Smaller Business (document)
- Reaching Out: an Action Plan on Social Exclusion
- Recruitment advertising (document)
- Recruitment and retention
- Recruitment fairs and open days (document)
- Redundancy checklist (document)
- Redundancy: guide to legislation (document)
- Redundancy: managing the redundancy process (document)
- Redundancy: payments and entitlements (document)
- Regional partnerships: Wales
- Report – State of Social Care in England 2005-06
- Report on work, care and life among migrants workers in London
- Required qualifications and training (document)
- Retention checklist (document)
- Retention miniguide: a guide to staff retention (document)
- Retention: best practice (document)
- Retention: procedures (document)
- Roffey Park Institute (organisation)
- Role and Tasks of Social Work – GSCC project
- Round Pegs – Round Holes? Recognising the future of human resources management (document)
- SCIE National Conference 2007 - Workshop notes and resources
- SCIE Practice guide : Making referrals to the POVA list
- SCIELEAD – Issue 1
- Setting up a personnel record system (document)
- Sexual orientation and Gender reassignment audit tools
- Sharing the Learning
- SISCo: Addressing basic skills at induction – Workshop notes and resources (SCIE National Conference 2007)
- SISCo: practical help to manage communication and number skills
- SISCo: Supporting Induction in Social Care
- Skills for Care – Induction Standards for England
- Skills for Care (organisation)
- Skills for Care: Foundation Standards
- Skills for Care: National Occupational Standards
- Skills Foresight Plan: Wales (policy document)
- Slivers-of-Time working
- Smoking ban: what does this mean for your care service?
- smokingbanwales.co.uk
- Social Care and Social Work Careers
- Social Care Association (organisation)
- Social Care Code of Practice for International Recruitment
- Social Care Induction Framework: Wales
- Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- Social care leadership and the impact of good leadership on the workforce: Julie Jones, SCIE
- Social Care Online (website)
- Social Care Registration
- Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care (document)
- Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP)
- Social Policy Research Unit (university department)
- Social Services Improvement Agency (Wales)
- Social Work in Wales: a Profession to Value
- Standards for Employment Agencies in Regulated Care and Health Services (SEARCH) (document)
- Stonewall (organisation)
- Strategy for the Participation of People who use Services in Skills for Care Work (document)
- Support Planning ( website)
- Supporting Social Care workers with English as a Second Language
- Supporting Working Carers – a Managers Guide
- Survey of workforce in independent sector – Northern Ireland
- Terms and conditions of employment: a guide (document)
- The Care Council for Wales (Government agency)
- The Commission for Racial Equality (Government agency)
- The Disability Rights Commission (organisation)
- The Equal Opportunities Commission (organisation)
- The Equality and Human Rights Commission (organisation)
- The First Six Months: a manager's guide (book)
- The future regulation of health and adult social care in England (document)
- The Management Standards Centre (MSC)
- The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (legislation)
- The New Landscape in Social Care and Health (document)
- The Office for Disability (website)
- The Open University
- The Practice Learning Taskforce
- The Princess Royal Trust for Carers Professionals (website)
- The Social Perspectives Network (organisation)
- The State of the Social Care Workforce 2004 (annual report)
- The UK Border Agency (government agency)
- The Well Managed Organisation – Diagnostic Tool for managing Sickness Absence
- Thinkcare – website
- Third Sector Leadership Centre (organisation and website)
- Tips on writing your ad (document)
- Trades Union Congress (organisation)
- Training checklist (document)
- Training: best practice (document)
- Training: legislation and guidance (document)
- Training: miniguide (document)
- Training: procedures to have in place (document)
- Training: study leave (document)
- Turning Point (organisation)
- UK National Europass Centre
- Union Learning Representatives
- Unions (document)
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd (UKHCA)
- User involvement in health and social care in Northern Ireland
- Valuing People Now – From Progress to Transformation (document)
- Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation (VSNTO) (organisation)
- Volunteering England (organisation)
- Wainwright Trust (organisation)
- Wales Office of Research & Development for Health & Social Care (WORD) (organisation)
- Welsh Language Board
- Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)
- Welsh local government data unit
- What should a disciplinary procedure contain? (document)
- What should an appeals procedure contain? (document)
- Willowbank case study
- Willowbank case study: Employee involvement
- Willowbank case study: Leadership and purpose
- Willowbank case study: Stakeholder involvement
- Willowbank case study: The organisation
- Windsor Fellowship (organisation)
- Women Returners' Network (organisation)
- Work Foundation (organisation)
- Work-Life balance: a guide (document)
- Work-Life balance: a guide and checklist (document)
- Worker Registration Scheme
- Workers requiring permission to work in the UK (document)
- Workforce planning
- Workforce planning – a patient-centred approach
- Workforce Planning for Social Work
- Workforce planning: a mini-guide (document)
- Working Families (organisation)
- Worksmart – TUC guide to rights at work


