General Information

  • Social Care Institute for Excellence - as part of its role in promoting good practice in social care, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is concerned with improving human resource practice throughout the sector.
  • Business Link - highly recommended site that contains lots of useful, practical advice, links, interactive tools (e.g. it will create a “contract of employment” for you and has a calculator to work out holiday entitlement).
  • ACAS - has lots of guidance documents and model documents., The site has recently be redesigned and is far easier to navigate and find documents.
  • Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly DTI)  - useful authoritative site and contains example documents and checklists. Useful if you need to check out detailed issues.
  • Employment Tribunals Services - this website contains guidance and has booklets such as “Responding to an Employment Tribunal Claim” which can be easily downloaded.

FREE RESOURCES

Voluntary Organisations should visit the National Council for Voluntary organisations (NCVO) website, as the NCVO’s Workforce Development team provides advice and support to voluntary and community organisations to enable them to recruit, retain and develop their workforce.

Information you can find:

  • Information about  training and events.
  • Everything you need to know to conduct a  Training Needs Analysis using step-by-step guide and templates
  • Free sample HR policies and job descriptions via the "HR bank"
  • How to Guides on a variety of topics, including conducting a 360 degree appraisal and avoiding redundancies in a recession
  • Case studies from voluntary and community organisations, discussing a variety of employment practice issues. Find out how to share your experiences by donating a case study of your own.
  • Join the Employment Preatcie Network, and share your queries and knowledge and network with over 1200 other HR and learning & skills professionals from across the sector

 

Page last edited: 12 July 2010