Latest news

• CPD-accredited e-learning
  21/04/20

  Start studying from home.

• 'Essential Refresher Training' modules
  21/04/20

  Blue Stream Academy are offering a set of 'Essential Refresher Training' modules, available free of charge, to any professionals returning to work within the health and social care sectors.

• The Mental Capacity Act (2005) (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
  21/04/20

  Guidance for Hospitals, Care Homes and Supervisory Bodies.

• End-of-life care and dementia
  21/04/20

  This recently updated resource looks at what is involved in providing good end-of-life care for people with dementia.

• Digital Social Care - new helpline
  21/04/20

  Digital Social Care has set up a new helpline to support the adult social care sector with harnessing technology during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): right to work checks
  21/04/20

  Advice for employers carrying out right to work checks during the coronavirus pandemic.

• King’s Fund dedicated COVID-19 pages
  21/04/20

  Provide supporting to health and care leaders, whether you are working in the NHS, social care, public health or the voluntary and independent sector.

• RIDDOR reporting of COVID-19
  21/04/20

  Health and Safety Executive information on what to report and how to make a report.

• Helping families keep in touch during COVID-19
  07/04/20

  Dementia UK and the Relatives & Residents Association have brought together ideas for relatives/friends, and for care staff, to help maintain vital relationships.

• Accident Free, Avoid A&E campaign
  07/04/20

  RoSPA campaign with a simple message: Prevent accidents, Protect your family, Help the NHS

• Coronavirus: feeling your bereavement is not a priority
  07/04/20

  There can be a strong spoken or unspoken feeling that certain deaths are more tragic than others. But every death can be a tragedy for friends and relatives left behind. 

• COVID-19: Tips for housing sector on end of life care
  07/04/20

  This timely Housing LIN briefing set out a number of tips for the housing sector on end of life care and signposts to a selection of useful links and further practical advice.

• Euan's Guide - new online forum
  07/04/20

  Euan’s Guide, the charity focused on making it easier for disabled people to get out and about, has now turned its attention to keeping everyone amused whilst they stay indoors.

• Coronavirus: Information for people affected by dementia
  07/04/20

  Information from the Alzhiemer's Society

• Coronavirus and Parkinson’s
  07/04/20

  Facts and guidance from Parkinson’s UK.

• Skills for Care’s Workforce Planning in Care information
  07/04/20

  Ideas and practical resources

• Lone working
  07/04/20

  The basics for employers and workers on how to manage any health and safety risks.

• Learning disability charity explores use of technology as part of social care provision
  07/04/20

  Research about how technology can transform the way care is delivered to people with learning disabilities has been shared at a conference in Manchester.

• Scaling innovation: learning from asset-based approaches in social care
  07/04/20

  The Kings Fund has a free watch on demand online event, which explored the experiences of people who access care, provided support for providers and commissioners of social care to develop and scale innovation and highlighted examples of good practice. 

• Care Home Complaints - Guide
  07/04/20

  A guide that assists care home operators in understanding consumer law and implementing a complaints process.