Latest news

• Code of Practice for the housing sector
  20/03/20

  The British Standards Institute and the Alzheimer’s Society have developed a Code of Practice for the housing sector.

• Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) - new report
  20/03/20

  Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) has published a new report that calls for a fresh approach to the strategic commissioning of disability services in order to strengthen relationships between statutory bodies and voluntary sector organisations so that positive outcomes for disabled people can be achieved. 

• Supporting adult carers
  20/03/20

  This NICE guideline covers support for adults (aged 18 and over) who provide unpaid care for anyone aged 16 or over with health or social care needs. 

• #ShareThatYouCare
  20/03/20

  This short film highlights the impact that caring can have on people’s lives, and how talking can help.

• Updated NAPA training and support guide
  20/03/20

  The updated NAPA training and support guide is now available.

• Music Mirrors: capturing the sounds of memories
  20/03/20

  Music Mirrors is a digital compilation of sounds or music – linked to YouTube – bringing together individual words and phrases that are habitually used by a person. 

• MHA’s Words of Wisdom campaign
  20/03/20

  Celebrating the wisdom of our older people.

• Taking self-directed support back to its roots
  20/03/20

  A SCIE article by Anna Severwright and Martin Walker

• Identifying pain in people who have complex communication needs
  20/03/20

  This article comes with a self-assessment enabling you to test your knowledge after reading it  

• Promoting sexual safety through empowerment
  20/03/20

  This report from CQC looks at how adult social care services keep people safe from sexual incidents. It also looks at how services can support them to express their sexuality.

• When you care, every day makes a difference
  20/03/20

  The second phase of the Department of Health and Social Care’s campaign ‘When you care, every day makes a difference’, launched in October. 

• care-job.com
  20/03/20

  Free job advertisement site for positions in the care industry launched Care-job.com has launched, a website offering a completely free job advertisement site for positions in the care industry.

• Global Council on Brain Health
  20/03/20

  The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) examined the state of science on the impact diet has on brain health in adults age 50 and older. 

• Medicines in health and social care
  20/03/20

  Over the next three months CQC will be shining a spotlight on medicines. This month they are focussing on The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) campaign, 'Involved & informed: good community medicines support'.

• Providing emotional support to people at the end of life and their families
  20/03/20

  How can social workers address difficulties in communication and help promote openness between professionals, service users, their family and other carers?

• Local Champions
  28/11/19

  Packs to available soon.

• Dancing for Dignity
  28/11/19

  A big thank you to everyone who took part and/or donated.

• Quality Matters news
  28/11/19

  Objectives revisited

• Skills for Care survey
  28/11/19

  Skills for Care is exploring whether it needs to develop workforce guidance for front line workers in social care on conducting safeguarding investigations. 

• Safe Steps - a preventative digital risk assessment app
  28/11/19

  Safe Steps app reduces falls in over 100 care homes.