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The Social Care Institute for Excellence launched an online database this month.

Social Care Online is a virtual warehouse of social care information and is the UK’s most complete range of information and research on social care. It includes good practice guidance, government publications, inspection reports, legislation, service user knowledge, social care practice reports, standards documents and training material, consultation documents, directories of other social care resources and organisations and free access to major social care databases and websites.

It has been designed to be user-friendly and it is free, so it is a key tool for everyone with a career or an interest in social care. It will be particularly useful for registered social workers, who will be able to use it to fulfil their post-registration training and learning obligations, and social work students, who will find it a source of information.

Social Care Online has also been designed to be fully accessible, making it an ideal way for people with visual impairments to access material.

You can find results both by browsing social care topics and also by creating your own search query. There are different levels of searching available, ranging from a simple search for people who want a quick and easy response to a complex search for more detailed information. It is updated daily, so if you’ve heard about an article and want to lay your hands on it, you can just log on.

To access Social Care Online go to www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk.