Latest news

• New Guide from The Care Provider Alliance
  04/04/19

  The Care Provider Alliance has produced a new guide drawing together new ideas and approaches from across the sector.

• Guide to how social care staff can recognise and manage pain in people with learning disabilities
  04/04/19

• Advanced Care planning
  04/04/19

  SCIE has launched a new guide to advanced care planning.

• Care home action plan
  04/04/19

  Improving personalisation in care homes.

• ‘Guide to improvement’ from Skills for Care
  04/04/19

  Skills for Care’s ‘Guide to improvement’ explains how to identify, plan and implement improvement across your service.

• eLearning for the MIS
  04/04/19

  Skills for Care eLearning for the MIS Developed for deputies, aspiring managers and new managers the Manager Induction Standards (MIS) set out what every good manager needs to know and understand.

• Adult social care: information for providers
  26/03/19

  This summary guidance is designed to raise awareness amongst inspectors and providers, of the sexuality related needs of people using adult social care services.

• Adult Social Care Recruitment: Campaign Partner Toolkit
  26/03/19

  How to use the national recruitment campaign to support your organisation’s recruitment efforts.

• Guide to safe staffing
  26/03/19

  Getting safe staffing right means that people access safe and effective care that's responsive to their needs.

• CQC Declare Your Care campaign: Stakeholder Toolkit
  26/03/19

  This will be a year-long, cross sector campaign focusing on why people have been prevented from voicing their concerns about care they have received and the motivation behind speaking up. 

• Strengths-based social work: practice framework and handbook
  26/03/19

  Strengths-based social work: This framework and handbook supports social workers and social care professionals in applying a strengths-based approach to their work with adults. 

• Treasury of arts activities for older people
  26/03/19

  50 activities, long and short, for use in any setting with older people.

• Life Story: Good Practice Case Study
  26/03/19

  Life Story simply means constantly collecting and documenting our lives and creating resources to reflect our experiences and the things that are important to us.

• ‘Can, not can’t’ – delivering personalised care on the frontline
  26/03/19

  Effective personalised care must focus on individual strengths, daily activities and social connections, new report finds.

• Coping with stress and depression
  26/03/19

  Stress and depression can affect anyone, but the pressure and expectations of caring can make carers particularly vulnerable.

• Person-centred future planning
  26/03/19

  A quick guide for practitioners supporting people growing older with learning disabilities.

• Daffodils set the standard for end of life care
  26/03/19

  GP surgeries will now be able to display a 'daffodil mark' as a sign of commitment to improving end of life care.

• Driving with dementia or mild cognitive impairment
  26/03/19

  These guidelines, endorsed by the BGS, set out the responsibilities of clinicians to their patients and provide a framework for thinking about the management of their driving safety.

• Bring Dementia Out
  25/03/19

  Bring Dementia Out is an innovation that aims to help LGBT+ people affected by dementia get better access to support and information in Brighton and Hove and Greater Manchester.

• Improving young people’s experiences in transition to and from inpatient mental health settings
  25/03/19

  A quick guide for mental health practitioners supporting young people.