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• EU Settlement Scheme
  23/10/20

   CPA is providing information on the EU Settlement Scheme.

• National Dignity Council Annual General (Virtual) Meeting 22nd of October, 1:30pm - 3:30pm.
  09/10/20

  Don’t forget it is the NATIONAL DIGNITY COUNCIL Annual General (Virtual) Meeting on the 22nd of October.  Champions are welcome to join for the business part of the meeting, which commences at 1.30p.m.

  At 2.00 p.m. we will have an open meeting that anyone that can join. This is an ideal opportunity for champions to come together to reflect on, not just the negatives but also the positives that have occurred over these past extraordinary months, listen, learn, share, care.

• How To Deal With Anxiety
  05/10/20

  Article with lots or links to useful comments and advice from therapists

• Join in - Thursday 1st Oct, 1pm for 5min
  30/09/20

  It's not just 'Strictly' that's Dancing in October. We're going to kick off our Dancing for Dignity month by having a mass participation dance event.

• Adult social care: our COVID-19 winter plan 2020 to 2021
  29/09/20

  The Government have published a policy paper setting out the key elements of national support available for the social care sector for winter 2020 to 2021, as well as the main actions to take for local authorities, NHS organisations, and social care providers, including in the voluntary and community sector.

• Lockdown tougher for disabled people due to inaccessible homes says YouGov poll
  29/09/20

  New research published has found that inaccessible housing made lockdown significantly harder for many disabled UK adults. 

• Learning from lockdown: Priorities for the future
  29/09/20

  This report gives clear guidance for central government, local government and other private, public and voluntary sector organisations on how to significantly improve the prospects of those currently in their 50s and 60s, who make up around a quarter of the population in England – over 14 million people.

• Joint statement from CQC’s Chief Inspectors, and Deputy Chief Inspector and lead for mental health services
  29/09/20

  This statement sets out how the CQC will regulate during the next phase of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• CQC data from COVID-19 Insight: Issue 4
  29/09/20

  CQC’s latest COVID-19 Insight report explores good practice in infection prevention and control (IPC) across all sectors including adult social care.

• Health and Social Care Workers Flu Immunisation
  29/09/20

  Download or order resources, such as leaflets, posters, guides and resource packs.

• The impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) on people who work as social care Personal Assistants
  29/09/20

  A new study exploring the personal impact of COVID-19 on PAs and their families, and on attitudes to working as a PA and identifying the ways in which PAs have had to adjust and adapt their work to enable them to do their job safely. 

• Ageing in Place for Minority Ethnic communities
  29/09/20

  This new research report explores the types of social infrastructure that people aged 50 and over from ethnic minority communities use in specific places.

• COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing surveillance report: Spotlight - age groups
  29/09/20

  This report is about population mental health and wellbeing in England during the COVID19 pandemic.

• Optimising co-design to create better life outcomes
  29/09/20

  The UK needs to design products with older people, carers and communities in mind rather than retrofitting to poorly understood needs.

• Think CO - An introductory workshop to carbon monoxide risks in the home
  29/09/20

  The Gas Safe Charity is offering free, on line workshops aimed at front line staff and volunteers who visit or work in the homes of vulnerable people.

• New Care Certificate resources
  29/09/20

  New Care Certificate resources which help to contextualise areas of the Care Certificate to different specialisms, which include: learning disability, mental health, dementia and lone working. 

• UK must harness technology assisted care to power independent living: new report from Public Policy Projects
  29/09/20

  Written by Public Policy Projects for Tunstall Healthcare, this report shows how the use of Technology-Enabled Care Services (TECS) has accelerated throughout the pandemic and calls for this momentum should be built on. 

• BPSD: Responding to behavioural symptoms of dementia
  29/09/20

  This course is part of the Care and Clinical collection.

• Update on Data Security and Protection
  29/09/20

  A new version of the DSPT designed for adult social care providers will be launched in October.

• Improving the quality of end of life care through better planning, support
  29/09/20

  Writing in the National Health Executive, Judith Richardson, Acting Director for Health and Social Care, NICE highlights there is still room for improvement in end of life care.