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Links

Here you can find links to various other sites which may be of interest to you.

Awarding bodies
City & Guilds
Scottish Qualifications Authority

Advisory Organisations
Age Concern Scotland
Alzeimer Scotland
Counsel and Care
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

Centres of excellence
Community Care Works
Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre (CJDC)
Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) 
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) 
Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) 
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) 

Funding
Age Concern Scotland's Conference and Training Grants 
Alcohol Education and Research Fund
FunderFinder
Individual Learning Accounts (ILA)
Modern Apprenticeships 
Robertson Trust 
Scottish Community Action Research Fund (SCARF) 
Scottish Union Learning Fund (SULF)
SCVO's 'Raising Money' guidance 
Social Workers' Educational Trust (SWET) 
Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) 
The Social Services Workforce Funding for Training - Update Report (SSSC, 2006)
Women's Fund for Scotland

Government
Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee
Local Government and Communities Committee 
Mental Welfare Commission 
Scottish Government's Literacy and Numeracy webpages 
Scottish Parliament 
Social Work Scotland website
The Scottish Government 

Inquiries
Health Committee Care Inquiry 2006 
Housing Support Enabling Unit (HSEU) 
Inquiry into the Delivery of Community Care in Scotland 2002

Network Organisations
Association of Care Training and Assessment Networks (ACTAN) 
Association of Directors of Social Work 
British Association of Social Workers (BASW) 
British Institute of Learning Disabilities
COSLA 
Fostering Network
Highland Community Care Forum (HCCF)  
Midlothian Community Care Providers Forum
Scottish Care 
Scottish Care at Home 
Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability (SCLD) 
Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) 
Scottish Organisation for Practice Teaching (ScOPT) 
Social Care Association 
The Scottish Social Services Learning Networks 

Online libraries
E-library of Educational Provision for Long Term Conditions
NHS Scotland e-Library
Researchweb 
Social Services Knowledge Scotland
Social Care Online
The learning exchange 

Records checks
Disclosure Scotland

Recruitment
Goodmoves

Sectoral publications
British Journal of Nursing 
Care Appointments 
Care Management Matters 
Caring Times 
Community Care 
Holyrood Magazine 
Nursing Standard 
Scottish and Irish Healthcare/Skills4Nurses

Statistics
Core Minimum Dataset (CMDS)

Statutory Organisations
Alliance of Sector Skills Councils 
Care Commission 
Care Services Improvement Partnership 
Futureskills Scotland 
Integrated Care Network 
Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) 
Sector Skills Alliance Scotland 
Skills Development Scotland 
Skills for Care and Development (SCfD) 

Training resources
Adult Literacy Partnerships 
Promoting Workplace Learning 
Return to Learn 
Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework (SCQF)
Scottish Practice Learning Project (SPLP) 
Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol (STRADA)
Skillseekers 
Standards and quality audit tool (Scottish Practice Learning Project, 2006)
The Big Plus

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