26th September 2024
Preparing For Winter in Adult Social Care
As temperatures cool and nights draw in, it is the time of year that adult social care providers start planning ahead for winter.
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26th September 2024
4th March 2024
Government Announces an Additional £600 Million Boost for Councils
In January 2024, the Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, announced a £600 million support package – with the funding aimed at assisting Councils in delivering essential services across the country, including social care.
30th October 2023
State of Care – 2022/2023
The CQC’s annual ‘State of Care’ report was published on October 20th. The report is an annual assessment of health care and social care in England.
24th August 2023
The Adult Social Care Workforce Survey
The Adult Social Care Workforce survey is currently live, providing care workers with the opportunity to feed their opinions directly through to the Government and, consequently, play a vital role in the development of the care workforce.
30th March 2023
The Benefits of Video-Based Learning
Video-based learning has been gathering pace over the last decade, expedited all the more so recently by the pandemic. So – why is video-based learning so popular and in demand?
15th February 2023
Care and Support Reimagined: A National Care Covenant for England
‘Care and Support Reimagined: A National Care Covenant for England’, the report commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, was published on January 24th and outlines a new vision for England’s social care system.
18th January 2023
“Caring Goes To The Heart of What it Means to be Human.”
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year message contained one key theme – the urgent need for change and action to fix the UK’s ‘broken’ social care system.
25th October 2022
UK Care Worker Shortage
According to the latest annual Skills for Care Workforce Analysis - published in October 2022 - the number of unfilled roles in the adult social care sector has risen to the highest rate since records began in 2012/13.
24th August 2022
Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission
Earlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he will be launching a new ‘Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission,’ in honour of Dame Barbara as well as the millions of people and their loved ones whose lives have been severely impacted by dementia.