Our social care guidelines make evidence-based recommendations on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions and services. They're co-produced with social care experts. Our clinical guidance and public health topics also contain recommendations you may find relevant. You can browse by adults' social care or children's social care.
Social care
We work with the adult and children's care sectors to develop independent recommendations for social care.
We develop health and public health advice and guidance, which allows an integrated approach to supporting people and meeting their needs.
NICE guidelines and quality standards
Our social care quality standards are practical tools to help deliver good health and wellbeing for users of adult and children's social services. They help people understand the quality of services and care they should expect. Providers and commissioners use them to assess performance and make improvements.
Tools and resources
Scenarios featuring fictional situations and people that show how our guidance could be used in social work practice.
Using our guidance in social work: examples for principal social workers
Scenarios featuring fictional situations and people that can help principal social workers (PSWs) understand how to put our guidelines and quality standards into practice.
To help you quickly find content you can use in your training, we've mapped our guidance to the most popular topics.
Our guideline gives an overview of the research into child protection best practice and includes advice on identifying and responding to physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect.
This resource helps shape high quality adult social care services and improve the wellbeing of adults using social care.