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• Making decisions about research on behalf of people living with dementia
  20/03/20

  British Geriactrics Society article

• Workshops for managing transfers of care
  20/03/20

  Free LGA workshops

• Arranging and paying for training in positive behavioural support
  20/03/20

  Skills for Care has updated its guide for people involved in designing, delivering and/or commissioning positive behavioural support (PBS) training in adult social care organisations.

• Harnessing the power of social care data
  20/03/20

  Discover how Councils across the country are using data collaboratively to minimise risk and encourage sustainability of service

• ICO has updated its Brexit FAQs
  20/03/20

• The age-friendly workplace: mental health and wellbeing
  20/03/20

  Aideen Young, shares her thoughts on the specific challenges faced by older workers, and how employers can support their wellbeing.

• #IAmConfident campaign
  20/03/20

  Department for Work and Pensions campaign to promote Disability Confident

• Guidance on employing workers aged 16 and 17
  20/03/20

  It’s both legal and beneficial to employ young people (aged 16 and 17), in social care services, including home care and community-based services. 

• Changes and Challenges: Employee Engagement in the Third Sector
  20/03/20

  Agenda Consulting conducted an analysis of the employee engagement surveys of 29 Third Sector organisations undertaken by Agenda Consulting in 2017, 2018 and 2019. 

• Shared perspectives on cohousing – codesigning community
  20/03/20

  Jan Chadwick, of K1 Cohousing, and Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects, shares the challenges they in designing Marmalade Lane, Orchard Park in Cambridge, and some of the lessons they have learned.