Latest news

• Leading for wellbeing webinar recording – Skills for Care
  03/12/20

  This recorded webinar focuses on leading for wellbeing, with practical support and ideas to support teams with wellbeing.

• New digital learning module
  03/12/20

  Skills for Care has launched a short digital learning module to support adult social care managers in carrying out holistic learning reviews.

• NHS Volunteer Responders and adult social care
  03/12/20

• The Potential of Technology in Adult Social Care
  03/12/20

  Sheffield University has produced a paper regarding the potential of technology in social care. 

• GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance
  03/12/20

  As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. 

• UK’s damaging views on ageing revealed in new report analysing language used across society
  03/12/20

  Language used across society to describe ageing and older people risks ‘damaging UK’s social fabric’, The Centre for Ageing better report says.

• Risk identification and virtual interventions for social workers
  03/12/20

  This quick guide will help social workers and social care practitioners understand how to gather evidence and information, so they are able to identify and assess risks normally gathered through observation. 

• Providing care and support at home to people who have had COVID-19
  03/12/20

  This quick guide will help home care workers and personal assistants to provide care and support to people who have left hospital after having COVID 19.

• Concerns about a social care, health or housing provider
  03/12/20

  This new guidance from SCIE covers how to raise or handle a concern about a social are, health, housing or related provider.

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): reducing risk in adult social care
  03/12/20

  Update to reducing risk in adult social care guidance.

• Local restriction tiers: what you need to know
  03/12/20

  Sets out the local restriction tier system that will be in place from Wednesday 2 December, including what you can and cannot do in each tier.

• CQC publishes Infection Prevention and Control inspections report
  03/12/20

  In response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic the CQC has introduced Infection Prevention and Control inspections in order to share good practice, uphold high quality care and keep people in care safe. 

• The State of Ageing: Coronavirus ‘to set people in mid-life on a path to poverty and ill-health’ with inequalities widening
  03/12/20

  Poor health, unsafe housing, financial inequalities and a lack of social connections have exacerbated the impact of coronavirus across the country, according to Centre for Ageing Better. 

• Finding our own way home – a ‘big’ conversation
  03/12/20

  This new report, jointly written by the Housing LIN and Learning Disability England, outlines the key results from research conducted into the housing circumstances and opportunities for people with a learning disability and/or autism. 

• New social care standards support more personalised care
  03/12/20

  New standards for integrating key health and social care information will ensure services can work together better to provide more personalised care.

• What is next for the United Nations? Building a more secure world
  02/12/20

  One of our Trustees Clare Copleston was honoured to be involved in a United Nations virtual meeting in October and she was able to bring the Dignity message to her involvement. We include her reflections on the event here.

• Gloves Guidance
  09/11/20

  The PPE guidance on the usage of gloves in care homes and domiciliary care has finally been published.

• Deputy manager networks
  09/11/20

  The Skills for Care existing registered manager networks are extremely popular and there are now over 150 local networks set up across England. The organisation knows the benefits these networks provide to managers, so they are setting up a new network specifically for deputy managers, team leaders and assistant managers. 

• Saying goodbye – A Resource for Care Homes
  09/11/20

  This new resource aims to support you to acknowledge the losses you, your colleagues and the people you support are experiencing during the Covid – 19 Pandemic. 

• Suicide prevention: how you can make a difference
  09/11/20

  Practical suggestions about how you can support others, and get help for yourself