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• Updated ‘Recommendations for CQC providers’ guide
  13/09/19

  Skills for Care has updated this guide which explains what CQC expects to see around recruitment and retention, learning and development and leadership and management, and how Skills for Care’s practical resources can help you to meet the standards.

• Going the Extra Step: A compendium of best practice in dementia care
  13/09/19

  The Housing Learning and Improvement Network used this year’s Dementia Action Week 2019 to gather and share examples of extra care schemes and other housing related community services supporting people with dementia to develop meaningful relationships.

• What is green dementia care?
  13/09/19

  Green dementia care, or nature-based dementia care, refers to indoor and outdoor experiences and activities that aim to promote health and wellbeing through interaction with nature for people living with dementia.

• Wearing hearing aid may help protect brain in later life
  13/09/19

  A new study has concluded that people who wear a hearing aid for age-related hearing problems maintain better brain function over time than those who do not. 

• Recruitment and retention support tools
  13/09/19

  Skills for Care has updated the recruitment and retention area of its website so that employers can easily access a range of support and tools to help them embed a values-based approach through each stage of the recruitment and retention process.

• Order your free recruitment and retention key cards
  13/09/19

  These key cards communicate the importance and benefits of using a values-based approach and provide handy tips and ideas.

• Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report
  13/09/19

  Workforce Race Equality Standard 2018/19 CQC has published its Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report for 2018/19.

• New guide for adult social care employers that employ staff who regularly work alone
  13/09/19

  Skills for Care’s new online guide provides information about what works well for employers that employ staff who regularly work alone.

• It's never too late to start exercising
  13/09/19

  Older people who have never taken part in sustained exercise programmes have the same ability to build muscle mass as highly trained master athletes of a similar age, according to new research at the University of Birmingham.

• Involved & informed: good community medicines support
  13/09/19

  The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in collaboration with several other partner organisations, has launched a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services in their homes. 

• Learning disability: care and support of people growing older
  13/09/19

  This NICE quality standard covers identifying, assessing and regularly reviewing the care and support needs of people with a learning disability as they grow older.

• Summer edition of Community Living Vol 32, No 4
  13/09/19

  Articles include, protecting vunerable adults and what happened when a support service was withdrawn and the catastrophic consequences.

• Unlocking capacity: smarter together
  13/09/19

  Unlocking capacity: smarter together is a new digital resource promoting good quality, person-centred care through collaborative working across health and adult social care. 

• Driving improvement through technology
  13/09/19

  Technology in health and care services is growing in importance. Digitally-enabled care can offer significant benefits to people who use services and those who run and deliver them. These case studies illustrate some of the developments in use and testing.

• Practice examples of good practice in integrated care
  13/09/19

  A series of local practice examples to shine a light on good practice in integrated care locally

• Ageist Britain?
  13/09/19

  This report aims to shine a light on the issue of casual ageism and the impact that it has on all of us.

• Mental Capacity Act e-learning programme
  13/09/19

  An e-learning resource designed to improve knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act.

• Guide to developing your staff
  13/09/19

  Skills for Care’s ‘Guide to developing your staff’ will help you to plan, deliver and evaluate the learning and development you provide for your staff.

• £5 million fund to develop support for unpaid carers
  15/07/19

  The Carers Innovation Fund will invest in new projects to improve carers’ wellbeing.

• Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
  15/07/19

  Caroline Dinenage MP has this week written to members of Parliament announcing that the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will come into force in October 2020.