Access | Computer database |
ADSW | Association of Directors of Social Work |
APEX | Works with offenders to get them into employment |
BAAF | British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering |
CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
CareFirst | Community services client information system |
Carenap D | Shared assessment tool |
Carenap E | Shared assessment tool |
Charter Mark | Quality assurance |
CHOSI | Barnardo's project to address young people's offending behaviour |
CIPFA | Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy |
Citizen Focus | Modernising Government funded project |
CMHT | Community Mental Health Trust |
Constructs | Programme for work with offenders |
COSLA | Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
CPC | Child Protection Committee |
CPD | Continuous Professional Development |
CPN | Community Practice Nurse |
Cristo Inventory | Assessment tool for substance misuse |
CROP | Project to provide work placements for those under court orders |
DASAT | Drug Alcohol and Smoking Action Team |
DipSW | Diploma in Social Work |
DTTO | Drug Treatment and Testing Orders |
eMPOWER | Project which focuses on educational, recreational & therapeutic uses of IT |
ECDL | European Computer Driving Licence |
GAE | Grant Aided Expenditure |
GSX | Government Secure Extranet, secure transmission between Justice agencies |
GPs | General Practitioner |
ICT | Information & Communications Technology |
Includem | Youth Crime project to support young people |
Internet | International communications network |
Intranet | Internal communications network |
ISCJIS | Integrated Scottish Criminal Justice Information System |
ISO 9002 | International quality assurance standard |
IT | Information Technology |
KPIs | Key Performance Indicators |
Learning with Care | Initiative to improve educational provision for looked after children |
LHCC | Local health care co-operative |
LPA | Local Partnership Agreement |
LSI-R | Risk assessment tool |
MARIM | Multi-Agency Racial Incident Monitoring |
MGF | Modernising Government Fund |
'Moving On' NCH project | Supported accommodation |
NCH | National Childrens Homes |
NCS | New Community Schools |
NHS | National Health Service |
OASys | Risk assessment tool |
OLM CareJust | Information system |
OT | Occupational Therapist |
PAMs | Professions allied to Medicine |
Partnership in Practice | Agreement between departments to provide services |
Pathfinder Initiative | Getting Best Results initiative for criminal justice |
Pathways Project | Partnership of agencies working with offenders |
PCs | Personal computers |
PQ | Post-qualifying awards |
Praxis | Inter-agency workers support group for work with women |
Quartile | Divided into quarters |
Quaser | Tool to assess the quality of social enquiry reports |
RAGF | Risk Assessment Guidance |
Framework (Scottish Executive) | |
RNIB | Royal National Institute for the Blind |
RSNH | Royal Scottish National Hospital |
S22 | Section 22 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 |
SACRO | Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders |
SAMH | Scottish Association for Mental Health |
SCRA | Scottish Children's Reporters Administration |
SEEMIS | Education Department's database |
SENSE | Works with deafblind and Multiply impaired children, adults and families throughout Scotland |
Sensing Progress | Initiative to improve services for those with sensory impairment |
Single Shared Assessment (SSA) | Joint community care needs assessment with Health |
SPS | Scottish Prison Service |
STEP | Project that helps care leavers into training or employment |
STRADA | Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol |
Supporting People Agenda | Accommodation strategy |
Surestart | Programme to support vulnerable children |
SVQ | Scottish Vocational Qualifications |
SWIS | Social work information system |
SWs | Social Workers |
UHI | University of Highlands and Islands |
VSA | Volunary Service Aberdeen |
WTE | Whole Time Equivalents |