Research links
Education websites
Department of Education & Skills
General website containing publications, statistics, research, consultations and strategy documents and updates.
Gateway for Education
'Gateways' are central websites which offer access to selected sites in specific areas. This is the major UK gateway for education.
Scottish Government Education Department
The website of the Scottish Government Education & Training Unit. Contains 'Interchange' summaries of all funded studies.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education
Schools Health Education Unit
Schools Health Education Unit website survey to provide a nation picture of health and social behaviours of young people. Allows groups and individuals to determine baseline dates and monitor achievements.
Teacher Net
The government gateway for educational professionals. Teaching and learning resource, management tools, career advice, research and education overview.
Government related websites
Audit Commission
Central Office of Information
Department of Health
Department of Health Social Care Group
www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/workforce/index.htm
Department of Education & Skills
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Trade & Industry
European Union
Health and Safety Executive
Home Office
House of Parliament
Index to all Government Department sites
National Assembly of Wales
National Statistics
Northern Ireland Assembly
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Statutory Instruments 1987-present
The UK Official Publications Index
The Scottish Office
The Stationery Office - catalogue of recent publications
The Treasury
UK government statistics
Health websites
Bandolier
The Bandolier website provides a wide range of accurate and pre-screened information on most aspects of health care services from an evidence based perspective.
Cochrane Collaboration (Social Care)
Reviews more relevant to social care may be accessed through the Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems sub-group of the Cochrane Collaboration, on this site.
www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/CochraneBehav/
Cochrane Collaboration (consumer information)
This site is part of the Cochrane Collaboration. It provide short summaries in lay person's language on the effectiveness of a wide variety of medical interventions and remedies.
Consumers in NHS Research
Site of Consumers in NHS Research, an organisation which aims to promote the involvement of consumers in health care research studies. Links with user involvement social care are currently being made.
Department of Health
This site offers the latest on the Department's work, as well as health and social care guidance, publications and policy.
Gateway for Medicine
'Gateways' are central websites which offer access to selected sites in specific areas. This is the major UK gateway for medicine.
Health Education Board for Scotland
Scotland's health improvement agency offers information for health education, health promotion, health advice and health information.
Health Promotion
Northern Ireland
www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk
Highwire (Stanford)
This website enables the user to search all available on-line medical data bases simultaneously.
Medline
MEDLINE is the world's largest database of medical abstracts, maintained by the US national Library of Medicine. It also contains many abstracts related to different social care specialisms.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
NHS (access to all sites)
This is the official gateway to National Health Service organisations on the Internet.
The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
This website developed by the University of York provides abstracts of systematic reviews in a searchable database.
NHS Direct (public information)
On-line health information service.
NHS performance tables
The NHS Performance Tables show headline indicators of the performance of NHS Trusts, including Ambulance Services, and of Health Authorities. These pages show results for the whole of England.
www.performance.doh.gov.uk/tables98/index.htm
NHS (Wales)
HOWIS, the official website of NHS Wales, brings together information sources about the health and lifestyle of the population of Wales into a simple, electronic-based service.
Our Healthier Nation
Government action plan aimed at tackling poor health particularly for those who are worst off in society. The targets set aim to reduce deaths caused by the four main killers, cancer, coronary heart disease and strokes, accidents and mental illness.
Recent DOH publications
www.dh.gov.uk/Publicationsandstatistics
Statistics and surveys (DoH)
The site of the Official Statistics and Surveys pages from the Department of Health offers information related to health and social care, most of which can be viewed or downloaded for free.
www.doh.gov.uk/public/stats1.htm
Wired for Health Sites
Health information for teachers.
Key stages information and resources
News Sites and Journals
Community Care
Daily Telegraph
Effective Healthcare Bulletins
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ehcb.htm
Evening Standard
Financial Times
Guardian/Observer
Health Service Journal
Independent
Inside Housing
The Lancet
Nursing Standard
Press Association
Roof - Housing and Homeless Magazine
The Times
Other websites
British Academy
The British Academy has opened PORTAL, a directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences.
CASS Question bank
An ESRC funded resource with the questions of more than 40 key UK social surveys. Links, bibliographies, help with topic planning. Free online access without registration.
Catalyst Trust
The trust aim to promote new, practical policies directed to the redistribution of power wealth and opportunity.
Centre for Policy Studies
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is an independent think tank which develops and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues.
Cochrane Library
(randomised trials and reviews relevant to social care)
Reviews a wide range of medical, social, educational and socio-legal research issues. Its scope covers developmental and psychosocial problems of childhood and adolescence, including juvenile delinquency; learning problems; and personality disorders and adult offending.
www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/CochraneBehav/
Demos
An independent think tank and research institute based in London. The website holds information on public policy and political thinking.
Department of Health Social Care Group
This website has many full text articles and publications from the Department of Health Social Care Group.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/index.htm
Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.
ESRC Centre on Micro-Social Change
This website hosted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research with library and publications facilities.
Evidence Network
A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this site contains a wide variety of evidence based material
Gateways
'Gateways' are central websites which offer access to selected sites in specific areas. These are the major UK gateway for education, social services and medicine.
www.sosig.ac.uk (Social science)
www.biome.ac.uk (Medicine)
www.hero.ac.uk (education)
Home Office
The Home Office website contains summaries and full text of studies associated with crime and the criminal justice system.
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/horspubs1.html
Institute of Economic Affairs
The IEA's goal is to explain free-market ideas to the public, including politicians, students, journalists, businessmen, academics and anyone interested in public policy.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation website provides summaries of all their funded studies.
King's Fund
The King's Fund research focuses on health issues particularly health inequalities and social injustice; enabling health and social care organisations to work in partnership; promoting cultural diversity in health; and encouraging patient and wider public involvement in health and health care.
National Centre for Social Research
NatCen is the largest independent social research institute in Britain. It conducts social research among members of the public to provide information on a range of social policy issues in Britain.
National Children's Bureau
The National Children's Bureau (NCB) promotes the interests and well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives. This website contains many of their summarised findings.
Qualitative Data Service (UK Data Archive at University of Essex)
Qualidata provides a national service for the acquisition, dissemination and re-use of social sciences qualitative research data. It offers specialist advice on research project management, issues of confidentiality and consent, and documentation of data with regard to archiving data as well as an online catalogue and its own online catalogue, Qualicat, enabling users to locate accessible sources of qualitative data across the UK.
The Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funds research and training in social and economic issues. Details of all research funded by the ESRC may be searched on this site.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
This website provides access to eLSC, the electronic Library of Social Care, which includes CAREDATA, a searchable database of social care abstracts.
UK Data Archive
The UK Data Archive (UKDA) holds the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers and Information for Practice.
What Works for Children?
What Works for Children? is part of the ESRC funded EvidenceNetwork and is a joint initiative between Barnardo's, the University of York and City University. This is a three year project looking at the levers and barriers for implementing research evidence in health and social care practice.
