This section provides links to national guidance documents. The first section is Department of Health and other Government department publications. The second section contains publications from national organisations.
This page provides links to statutory and national guidance.
Recently added:
- Proportionate Assessment Approaches: A Guide from the Chief Social Worker for Adults, Principal Social Workers and Principal Occupational Therapists, DHSC
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and Supporting Guidance, NHS England
- Guidance for Practitioners: Deprivation of Capital, LGSCO
- Reasonable Adjustments in Practice. Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Shared Lives Resources for Social Workers, SCIE
Department of Health and Social Care / HM Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Local Government Association (LGA)
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Skills for Care and Skills for Health
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
See also Provider Resources for Care Quality Commission Reports
COVID Resources
Coronavirus (COVID-19) (UK Government)
Department of Health and Social Care / HM Government
- Accessible Information Standard: Making health and social care information accessible, NHS England
- Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance on Interviewing Victims and Witnesses, and Guidance on Using Special Measures (Ministry of Justice)
- Adult Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse: A Guide to Support Practitioners and Managers, Local Government Association
- A Vision for Adult Social Care – Think Local, Act Personal
- Bereavement Resources for the Social Care Workforce (DHSC)
- Blue Badge Scheme Local Authority Guidance (England)
- Care and Support Statutory Guidance, (DHSC)
- Digital Working in Adult Social Care: What Good Looks Like (DHSC)
- Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance 2022, Home Office
- Female Genital Mutilation: Resource Pack, HM Government
- The Right to Choose: Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance for Dealing with Forced Marriage and Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines: Handling Cases of Forced Marriage (UK Government)
- Guidance for Developing a Local Suicide Prevention Action Plan: Information for Public Health Staff in Local Authorities, Public Health England,
- Guidance: Forced Marriage, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office
- Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers, HM Government
- Improving healthcare access for people with learning disabilities (Public Health England)
- Health and Social Care Review: Leadership for a Collaborative and Inclusive Future (DHSC)
- Heatwave Plan for England (PHE, DHSC and NHS)
- Health and Wellbeing of the Adult Social Care Workforce (DHSC)
- Hospital Discharge and Community Support Guidance (DHSC)
- Managing Provider Failure chapter: Managing Care Home Closures: A Good Practice Guide for Local Authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Providers and Partners (NHS England et al)
- Mental Capacity Code of Practice, Office of the Public Guardian
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards – Code of Practice to supplement the main Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice, Ministry of Justice
- Mental Health Act 1983: Code of Practice, Department of Health
- Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat: Improving Outcomes for People Experiencing Mental Health Crisis, HM Government
- Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance on Female Genital Mutilation, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care and Home Office
- National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care (DHSC)
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and Supporting Guidance, NHS England
- Post-qualifying Standards for Social Work Practice Supervisors in Adult Social Care
- Proportionate assessment approaches: a guide from the Chief Social Worker for Adults, principal social workers and principal occupational therapists (DHSC)
- Revisiting Safeguarding Practice (DHSC)
- Safe and Wellbeing Reviews: Thematic Review and Lessons Learned (NHS England)
- Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years – Statutory Guidance for Organisations who work with and support Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Department for Education and Department of Health
- Social Work Practice with Carers (Research in Practice for Adults, Department of Health and Social Care)
- Statutory guidance for Local Authorities and NHS organisations to support implementation of the Adult Autism Strategy
- Strengths-Based Approach: Practice Framework and Practice Handbook (DHSC)
- The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism (NHS England)
- Transforming Social Care (Department of Health and Social Care)
- What’s important to me: A Review of Choice in End of Life Care, The Choice in End of Life Care Programme Board
- What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners (Department for Education)
- Working Together to Safeguard Children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, HM Government
Home Office
- Channel Guidance (Home Office)
- Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Other National Guidance
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Local Government Association (LGA)
LGA and ADASS
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
Guidance for Practitioners: Deprivation of Capital
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
See also NICE Quick Guides on social care topics
- Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis and management
- Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges
- Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services
- Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers
- Dementia: supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
- Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own home
- Intermediate care including reablement
- Managing medicines in care homes
- Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management
- Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions
- Oral health for adults in care homes
- People’s experience in adult social care services: improving the experience of care and support for people using adult social care services
- Social Work with Adults Experiencing Complex Needs: Guidance (NICE)
- Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs
- Transition between inpatient mental health and community and care home settings
- Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services
Skills for Care and Skills for Health
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- Assessment: Financial crime against vulnerable adults
- Care Act 2014
- Co-production: What it is and how to do it (SCIE)
- Dignity in Care
- Examples of Co-production in Social Care (animated film, SCIE)
- Gaining access to an adult suspected to be at risk of neglect or abuse
- Safeguarding Adults: Sharing Information
- Self-neglect at a glance
- Shared Lives: Resources for Social Workers
Think Local, Act Personal
Other Organisations
- Better Care Fund, Local Government Association
- Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years on, Institute of Health Equity
- Examples of Reasonable Adjustments in Practice. Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Time Away From Caring: Good Practice in Carer Breaks – Resources – Carers Trust
- Whistleblowing Guidance for Workers and Employers in Health and Social Care, Whistleblowing Helpline
