Professional Resources
The following sites all provide resources and tools to enable the health and social care workforce to identify and develop best practice.
Social Services Knowledge Scotland is a gateway to information and learning materials to support social care practitioners in day to day work and learning.
A source of knowledge and evidence into practice for health and care.
Joint Improvement Team Scotland offers practical support to enable partnerships to deliver better housing, health and social care services. It provides useful toolkits and guidance publications.
IRISS The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services aims to help the social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge and research for service innovation & improvement. It maintains the Learning Exchange, a digital library containing audio, video and text-based materials to support learning and development.
Social Care Institute for Excellence gathers and collates knowledge about what works in social care.
ENABLE Scotland has a lending library of resources and is part of the SCLD library partnership and the NHS library network through Shelcat. You can search our catalogue on the Shelcat site.