Celtic Knot is not responsible for the content of any of the websites featured below. The websites are grouped under headings:
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Suppliers
Some
of the suppliers we have chosen to use because of their ethical
standards:
Their website is www.ecologicalhosting.co.uk.
Birmingham
Friends of the Earth –
campaigning to protect the environment.
Their website is www.birminghamfoe.org.uk. They sell sustainable stationery products which we use.
Their website is www.birminghamfoe.org.uk. They sell sustainable stationery products which we use.
"The Warehouse: A great building, with lots going on: Friends of the Earth info centre, meeting room and gift shop; 'The Warehouse' veggie café; 'One Earth' vegan wholefoods; 'Sprocket Cycles'; and much more!"
One World is Enough
Their website is www.one-world-is-enough.net. Our logo is their design.
"The web's best choice of Fairly Traded Clothes, Crafts and Gifts from around the World... By buying Fair Trade you are helping skilled crafts people in developing countries to help themselves..."
Their website is www.thephone.coop.
“…at The Phone Co-op we take an ethical approach to business. From the fair trade tea in our kitchen to our environmental policy we try to do the right thing. Our customers and members demand it…”
Their website is www.unity.co.uk.
“…Unity Trust Bank is a socially responsible bank and does not support organisations which are not consistent with the Bank's values. Unity Trust Bank will not work with organisations whose activities are…”
Law Resources
The Statute Law Database
The website address is www.statutelaw.gov.uk
Contains the text of legislation (statutes and statutory instruments) including amendments to legislation. Includes older legislation. Facilities include keeping track of amendments over time. Search tool on home page. Not yet completely up to date.
BAILII - The British and Irish Legal Information Institute
The website address is www.bailii.org
A comprehensive and free database of cases. Includes most precedent caselaw including decisions of the higher courts, European courts, and some tribunal and commissioners decisions. Search tool on home page.
Care and Health Law
The website address is www.careandhealthlaw.com
A comprehensive database of care and health law resources. In addition to legislation and caselaw, the database extends to cover, for example, Ombudsmans decisions and relevant guidance documents. The basic information is free, there is a subscription service for in-depth analysis.
Community Legal Advice
This is the website of the Community Legal Advice service at www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk. Community Legal Advice is a government sponsored initiative co-ordinating the quality and delivery of advice on social welfare law.
There is a calculator to check eligibility for free legal advice. There is a directory of providers of advice in different categories. And extensive advice is available directly through advice leaflets, factsheets, and links to other legal websites, co-ordinated through an advice search facility.
Government legal forms from www.capform.co.uk
Portals - Portals are websites (like this page!) that provide links to other websites in an organised way:
Neil Bateman’s portal to welfare rights information
Delia Venables’ portal to legal advice, information and resources
Lawlinks at the University of Kent
Social Care Resources
Government Departments
There is a Government Portal to Central Government Departments where you can look up government departments and quasi-governmental bodies alphabetically - it saves the need to remember lots of addresses. Similarly, there is a Local Government Portal listing local authority websites alphabetically.
The two key departments with responsibility and resources for social care are:
Department of Health – government department responsible for adult social care policy. The link takes you to the social care pages.
Department for Education and Skills – government department responsible for children’s social services. The link takes you to the Children and Families pages, including Local Authority Circulars and Social Services Letters.
GSCC - The General Social Care Council
The website address is www.gscc.org.uk
Regulator of social work and social care professionals. Maintains the Register of Social Care Workers. Sets and enforces standards, including authoring the GSCC Codes of Practice.
CSCI - Commission for Social Care Inspection
The website address is www.csci.org.uk
Regulator of social care organisations.
SCIE - Social Care Institute for Excellence
The website address is www.scie.org.uk
Promoting best practice in social care through the dissemination of research and publications. Includes an online resource library.
Skills for Care
The website address is www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
This is where you will find the National Occupational Standards for Social Work.
Care and Health Law
The website address is www.careandhealthlaw.com
A comprehensive database of care and health law resources. In addition to legislation and caselaw, the database extends to cover, for example, Ombudsmans decisions and relevant guidance documents. The basic information is free, there is a subscription service for in-depth analysis.
Portals - Portals are websites (like this page!) that provide links to other websites in an organised way:
The Guardian's portal provides an extremely extensive range of links to social care resources. Quite a few of the links are out-of-date, but if you are interested in pursuing them for archive purposes, go [here].
Care and Health also provides a range of useful resources for the sector, being particularly useful as a news resource.
Source Materials
This is a resource within Celtic Knot's own website. It provides direct links to social work law: selected primary legislation, secondary legislation and statutory guidance.
Organisations we have worked with
(appearing here by request or agreement)
Their website is www.advocacymatters.co.uk.
"Advocacy Matters is an independent voluntary organisation. We aim to ensure that Disabled People are heard and their rights, concerns and needs are acted on..."
Eddie O'Hara
An independent social worker, whose website is www.eddieohara.co.uk.
"...an experienced social worker who spends the majority of my time working directly with children, families, extended family, adopters, and foster carers etc... most of my work consists of ‘Assessment, Training, and Investigations’... I also provide social work services in respect of..."
Support Solutions
Their website is www.supportsolutions.co.uk/.
"Welcome to Support Solutions: We are an established West Midlands-based Supported Housing Management Consultancy and Training Agency..."
Its social workers are
registered with the
General Social Care Council