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• Deputy manager networks
  09/11/20

  The Skills for Care existing registered manager networks are extremely popular and there are now over 150 local networks set up across England. The organisation knows the benefits these networks provide to managers, so they are setting up a new network specifically for deputy managers, team leaders and assistant managers. 

• Saying goodbye – A Resource for Care Homes
  09/11/20

  This new resource aims to support you to acknowledge the losses you, your colleagues and the people you support are experiencing during the Covid – 19 Pandemic. 

• Suicide prevention: how you can make a difference
  09/11/20

  Practical suggestions about how you can support others, and get help for yourself

• 'I feel her with me all the time’
  09/11/20

  Raising awareness of dementia in memory of Mum.

• Technology solutions and dementia care – What’s available?
  09/11/20

  In this article, James Rycroft, Managing Director at specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare, discusses the different technology solutions available to integrate into dementia care and its benefits.

• How To Help Your Loved One Cope With Uncertainty
  09/11/20

  Imogen Clarke has put together a really useful article about how we can help those we acre about cope with the uncertainties of these challenging times.

• Promising Approaches to reducing loneliness in later life - Revisited
  09/11/20

  This report is an update to the seminal report Campaign to End Loneliness published jointly with Age UK in 2015.

• State of Care
  09/11/20

  CQC gave published their annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England, looking at the quality of care over the past year.

• Out of sight – who cares?: Restraint, segregation and seclusion review
  09/11/20

  CQC have published a report ‘Out of Sight – who cares?’ which looks at the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation in care services for people with a mental health condition, a learning disability or autistic people.

• How coronavirus has affected equality and human rights
  09/11/20

  This new report warns that hard-won equality and human rights are at risk of going backwards in the wake of the pandemic. 

• Building rapport and establishing meaningful relationships using technology in social work
  09/11/20

  This briefing for social workers and social care practitioners will support understanding on how to build rapport and establish relationships with the people they work with using technology.

• Analogue to digital: Future proofing your group living systems
  09/11/20

  This new Housing LIN Viewpoint (No 101) highlights how, during the Coronavirus pandemic, many social landlords have relied on monitoring and communication systems to keep vulnerable residents safe but also to enhance their quality of life as social isolation has become widespread.

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): looking after people who lack mental capacity
  09/11/20

  Guidance for health and social care staff who are caring for, or treating, a person who lacks the relevant mental capacity.

• Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on people who access care and support
  09/11/20

  A rapid evidence review with recommendations

• Tips For Staying Hydrated This Winter
  09/11/20

  This information prepared by Evelyn James provides some useful tips about staying hydrated and includes links to some helpful resources. Well worth a read.

• Dignity Welcome and Feedback Postcards
  04/11/20

  Two different types of postcards available for you to order *free of charge.

• What good looks like for digital records in adult social care
  23/10/20

  This guide from the CQC clarifies what good digital records look like

• Housing – Getting People Home from Hospital
  23/10/20

  This interactive map, developed by Foundations and the Housing LIN, highlights examples of where housing organisations and services are, or have been actively supporting hospital discharges and helping to get people home.

• NCSC Small Business Guide
  23/10/20

  The NCSC Small Business Guide has been revamped for 2020 as well as the response and recovery guidance. 

• An intergenerational audit for the UK 2020
  23/10/20

  Resolution Foundation. This Intergenerational Audit for the UK – supported by the Nuffield Foundation – provides the first comprehensive assessment of the initial phase of the coronavirus crisis for different generations in Britain