Social Care Institute for Excellence
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Kathryn Smith, Chief Executive
Ewan King, Chief Operating Officer | |
| Founded | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Type | Charity, improvement agency |
| Location | |
Key people | Paul Burstow, Chair
Kathryn Smith, Chief Executive Ewan King, Chief Operating Officer |
| Website | www |
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE; pronounced 'sky') is a UK charity and improvement agency. SCIE provides consultancy, resources, and training with the aim of improving social work and social care in the United Kingdom.
It produces guidance in a range of formats, including specialist tool kits, webinars, and e-learning modules covering management and policy issues as well as day-to-day service provision.[1][2] These materials are co-produced with people who use services, carers, providers, commissioners, policymakers, and researchers.[3]
SCIE was established in 2001.[4] It gained charitable status, which contributed to its survival of the 2010 UK quango reforms while other agencies were abolished or merged.[5]
SCIE maintains Social Care Online, which was originally launched in 2005. This is the UK's biggest database of social care and social work information including wide-scale research, reports, government and policy documents, journal articles, and websites.[6]
The organisation's funding received from the government fell to £4.4 million in 2013−14 (with £1m of this intended for specific projects), having previously been more than £20m in 2009−10 (of which £14m was allocated to specific projects).[5]
SCIE was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to provide support over the Care Act 2014, looking at issues such as assessment and eligibility, safeguarding adults and advocacy.[7]
