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• SCIE - Mental Capacity Act and care planning
  31/10/14

  This new SCIE report shows commissioners and providers of care how to embed the principles of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) into care and support planning.

• Action
  31/10/14

  In April this year we heard that Bedford Rowing Club was proposing to introduce rowing for disabled people.

• Dignity Action Day - Have You Got Time For Digni-Tea?
  31/10/14

  There are only 92 days to go to Dignity Action Day 2015. We will be launching our own countdown at the beginning of December, but now is the time to get planning and think about what you are going to.

• Why I Am A Dignity Champion
  31/10/14

  There are lots of reasons why people become champions, and some of these have been recorded on the website when people have signed up.

• Dignity Do's
  31/10/14

  Those of you who attended the National Conference - the report will be on the website next month, will already be aware that we have changed the Dignity Challenges to the
  Dignity Dos.

• Dignity Champions
  31/10/14

  Many of our Champions are only in touch with those people within their own organisations. To be able to exchange ideas and work practices with fellow interested people can help to drive our message to a higher level and there is always 'strength in numbers'.

• National Dignity Council News
  31/10/14

  This month has seen the National Dignity Council launch a draft audit tool to enable individuals and organisations to reflect on where they are in delivering their services with dignity and a very useful audit to help those who are choosing a care service to decide if dignity is at the heart of those services.

• National Dignity Council Annual Conference Documents
  16/10/14

  Presentations and Dignity audits from our National Dignity Council Annual Conference.

• Common core principals
  08/08/14

  The National Dignity Council undertook some work with Skills for Care to look at how the principles are being used in practice.

• Dignity poem
  08/08/14

  A dignity champion who observed some poor practice in their workplace was so upset that she wrote the following poem.

• Dementia Friends sessions in your area
  07/02/14

  Find out about all the great Dementia Friends activities going on around the country and how you can get involved.

• Making health and social care information accessible
  07/02/14

  NHS England are taking forward work aimed at ensuring that disabled people, service users and carers receive information from health and social care organisations in a format they can understand and that they receive appropriate support to communicate incuding where relevant advocacy support.

• Making the headlines for Dignity Action Day
  28/01/14

  Get inspiration for how you can spread the word more widely about your Digni-tea Action Day activities.

• Care homes in Leicestershire recognised for dignity in care
  28/01/14

  More than 30 care homes have been recognised for the quality of the care they provide by Leicestershire County Council.

• Dementia 2013: The hidden voice of loneliness
  11/04/13

  The Alzheimer's Society's annual report, providing a snapshot of how well people are living with dementia, what support they are receiving, and what barriers they face.

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
  10/04/13

  A new report from the CQC reveals that the Mental Capacity Act is not well understood.

• The National Dignity Council responds to the CQC's Time to listen in NHS hospitals and care homes: Dignity and nutrition inspection reports
  19/03/13

  The National Dignity Council welcomes the follow up reviews from the CQC into the care provided to older people in NHS hospitals and care homes. The reviews focus on whether people are treated with dignity and receive the nutrition they require.

• Age UK shares their experiences of Dignity Action Day 2013
  04/02/13

  The first of February marked Dignity Action Day, an annual opportunity for health and social care professionals and members of the public to raise awareness of people's rights to dignity...

• Dignity Action Day 2013 round up
  01/02/13

  *Blog*

• Dignity Action Day 2013
  01/02/13

  *Media release*