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Keep up to date with the latest news about our organisation and recent inspection reports on social work services in Scotland.
SWIA Newsletter - Social Work Inspection Matters
The SWIA newsletter is one of the ways we are able to communicate with everyone. If you require the newsletter in a different format please contact us.
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Social Work Inspection Matters 02/09 (PDF, 234Kb) -
Social Work Inspection Matters 11/08 (PDF, 311Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 08/08 (PDF, 182Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 04/08 (PDF, 282Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 02/08 (PDF, 112Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 10/07 (PDF, 136Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 06/07 (PDF, 146Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 12/06 (PDF, 1.6Mb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 05/06 (PDF, 179Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 12/05 (PDF, 127Kb)
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Social Work Inspection Matters 09/05 (PDF, 562Kb)
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Link to New Improvement and Scrutiny Organisations for Healthcare and for Social Work And Social Care website
Help needed from Social Work Practitioners
We want to hear your views to make our practioner guides as useful as possible. Find out how you can help:
Information on Practioner Guides Consultation (PDF, 32Kb)
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Scrutiny Restucture in SWIA:
Please find attached the first
staff bulletin for the Scrutiny and Improvement Bodies for Healthcare and for Social Work and Social Care.
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Guide to Supported Self-Evaluation:
Building excellent social work services
This guide enables social work services to carry out self-evaluations. SWIA created it in partnership with colleagues in Changing Lives. We have also worked closely with volunteering local authorities in drafting and testing the materials and involved the Improvement Service. We intend that this guide will remain relevant as the structures for social work and social care scrutiny and regulation go through changes in the years ahead.
Please click here to download.
We will formally launch the Guide on 11 February 2009.
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Scrutiny Restructure in SWIA
The Scottish Government announced in January 2008 that it will work with the Parliament and stakeholders, including local governement, to make improvements in scrutiny and complaints handling.
These improvements are mostly in response to the report published by Professor Lorne Crerar into regulation, audit, inspection and complaints handling of public services in Scotland (Crerar Review).
On 6th November the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth made a further statement about changes to structure. A copy can be found here. He also published a supporting document which can be found here.
Alexis Jay said "The Government's proposals offer an improved way forward to the scrutiny of social work and social care in Scotland by bringing together three separate elements into one body. This unified approach should make for better assurance to the public and to Parliament that the most vulnerable in our society are properly supported and cared for.
The Social Work Inspection Agency looks forward to playing a full part in shaping the new organisation.