The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is an independent social care charity with deep experience of bringing partners and people with lived experience together to collaborate and innovate to improve people’s lives (e.g. national government, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), local authorities, care providers, academics, foundations). Working across social care, health and related services such as housing, for adults, children and families, we contribute to the development and implementation of better care, support and safeguarding at local and national level.

As we are not-for-profit, our income goes towards improving social care. We deliver four main offers, across all of which we support the DHSC annually:

• SCIE Consultancy – working with local and national organisations to identify and implement improvements
• SCIE Insights – research, evidence and policy insights to drive improvements and innovation, and influence national policy and practice
• SCIE Training – bespoke online or face-to-face learning and development, including safeguarding, co-production and strengths-based approaches
• SCIE Resources – guidance and tools to support best practice, co-production and innovation.

Co-production with people with lived experience of social care underpins and informs what we do, and with over 20 years’ experience we bring a wealth of trusted, evidence-based expertise to work together to help transform care. Our team – former practitioners in social care, local authority professionals, researchers and training experts – bring immense depth of experience and passion for the cause, based on frontline work, using the best available knowledge about what works in practice.

Our consultancy work includes local improvement and helping organisations that are operating in difficult circumstances. This involves working with teams across local government, care, health and housing, to identify and embed new ways of working.

In safeguarding, we partner with organisations to anticipate and manage safeguarding risks, with expert-led insights, tailored training and co-produced solutions built around people and pressures. We have successfully delivered several hundred projects over the last three years supporting organisations from Government departments and councils to health, care and support providers.

We offer analysis and improvement work to support organisations and partnerships to gain an independent view of their safeguarding systems and processes, covering audits, service and case reviews. We also help you learn from safeguarding incidents and assess current practice across both children and adults’ safeguarding.

“[SCIE] bring us expertise of a wide range of partners including people with lived experience. When I was talking to [SCIE] it was like I was speaking to all the people they had spoken to.” Policy maker

“As genuine experts in social care, SCIE bring strategic expertise & knowledge to help with the challenges organisations are facing ... Their breadth of customers and convening power enable them to support in a wide range of ways. They understand the business, tailor their offering and have the ability to engage with all the issues, while focusing on the end-user at all times.” Director of Adult Social Services

SCIE’s offer covers a wide range of areas from digital innovation to pathway redesign to CQC support . Contact sciebusdevelopmentteam@scie.org.uk to find out how we can help. www.scie.org.uk