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• SCIE - Care homes and COVID-19: advice and best practice
  01/07/20

  Guidance, resources and best practice advice for care homes and care staff during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• LGA/ADASS Covid19 Briefing Note – Financial Aspects of Direct Payments and support for Personal Assistants
  01/07/20

• Government guidance documents on how to work safely in care homes and domiciliary care during the COVID!( pandemic
  01/07/20

• NHS launches new online support for people with diabetes
  01/07/20

  New online tools for people living with diabetes are now available on the NHS to help people manage their condition during the coronavirus pandemic. 

• CPA Briefing note for care providers on reporting to local authorities
  01/07/20

  CPA has created a briefing note containing examples to support care providers' reports to local authorities.

• Post job vacancies - Free and unlimited access
  01/07/20

  CareJob.co is offering all care providers in the UK completely free and unlimited access to post vacancies.

• Steps to take following the death of a person who worked in adult social care in England
  01/07/20

  In the sad event of the death of a worker in adult social care from coronavirus (COVID-19), there are several actions that employers may need to take. 

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): reducing risk in adult social care
  01/07/20

  A framework for how adult social care employers should assess and reduce risk to their workforce during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Latest resources to improve social worker support for autistic adults and adults with learning disability - including during the COVID-19 pandemic
  01/07/20

  Latest resources from the British Association for Social Workers (BASW) and their partners the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) 

• Mental health conditions, work and the workplace
  01/07/20

  Guidance to help you support employee mental health by managing work related stress.

• Dedicated one-to-one time with a dementia consultant
  01/07/20

  Accessible dementia consultancy service from Dementia Support UK.

• DHSC guidance on mental capacity and DoLs
  01/07/20

  A new section has been added to the additional guidance document called 'The right to appeal if someone is subject to emergency health powers and lacks the relevant mental capacity'.

• Boots Care Learning platform
  01/07/20

  Available free for all care homes in the UK.

• Visitors' protocol - CPA briefing for care providers
  01/07/20

  This protocol aims to provide a set of principles and top tips to help people using care and support to have the opportunity to safely receive visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic, while minimising the risk of its introduction to, or spread within, the care setting.

• SCIE - forum for care home managers
  01/07/20

  The meetup will provide an opportunity to share and learn, and to feedback key issues to sector leaders and to the DHSC.

• Resident engagement
  01/07/20

  EROSH has developed a new guide to the huge range of resources and information that is available in relation to resident engagement.

• Digital Social Care
  01/07/20

  Cyber security pages and guide co-produced with NHS Digital and the National Cyber Security Centre.

• At a loss.org
  01/07/20

  A website that can help those bereaved in any circumstance to find the national bereavement support services that are appropriate to their loss, as well as local services, relevant resources and information.

• Cruse bereavement care
  01/07/20

  Guidance to support bereaved people affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

• LMN at Home video library
  01/07/20

  A free online resource of pre-recorded live music videos.