Our Good News Stories share how staff and organisations in social services are using Quality Improvement (QI) methodology in their work. These stories and videos can help you learn about how QI can improve social services and give you the skills to use QI in your own work.
This is a good news story from Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership. They used QI to improve their support plans for care home residents by focusing on what matters to them. The video shows the importance of adapting the improved processes when scaling up the improvement.
This good news story is brought to you by Aberlour Children's Charity. Their goal was to ensure that new and expectant mothers are getting the mental health support they need around the clock.
They did this by taking the time to understand the needs of the people they work with and by starting small, with small tests of change along the way.
This story is about Abbotsford Care using QI to understand the risks of their care home residents. By making changes and testing them, they became more organised, and paperwork took less time to complete. This gave them more time to focus on supporting residents to live their best lives.
Feeling inspired by these QI Good News Stories?
Watch this video to see how the Model for Improvement can help you take ideas you have to improve the service you deliver. It gives you some key questions to ask before you change anything and give you a structure to test your ideas out.
The SSSC supports QI learning across social work, social care, and early years by:
If you want to know more about the SSSC’s QI learning activities, please contact us at leadership@sssc.uk.com or go to our webpage and follow us on Twitter at @SSSCLeadership