NCAS 13: funding reform breakfast session: come and share your views
...Social Care for breakfast 8.00 – 9.00 in Queens Suite 1 on Friday morning to talk about some of the wicked issues of funding reform. Jon and his team will...
Dylan Morrisroe
G8 dementia summit: have your say on improving dementia research
The Social Care News blog will always promote opportunities for the care and support sector to engage with and help shape government policy. Ahead of the G8 Dementia Summit on 11 December 2013, the Department of Health wants to hear …
Vulnerable older people’s plan: 1 week left to comment on proposals
...of hospital. They also seek to establish ways for NHS and social care services to work together more effectively for the benefit of patients – in and out of hospital....
Caldicott information governance review: Department of Health response
...recommendations of the review resonate with the information strategy for health and care published in 2012 and with the focus on integration in the Care Bill which sets out a...
Social Care Commitment: a new deal for workers and employers
The Social Care Commitment, has been launched by the Department of Health, in partnership with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG). The Social Care Commitment …
Be a better manager
The Registered Managers’ Programme from the National Skills Academy for Social Care aims to betterequip registered mangers to meet the challenges they face, to reduce their isolation by networking them...
Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the 2010 adult autism strategy
...stage of the review will last until the end of October 2013. A revised strategy will be published in March 2014. Information supplied by: Michael Swaffield- autism policy lead...
Recruiting for values in social care: a new toolkit for employers
The National Skills Academy for Social Care, working in partnership with Skills for Care and MacIntyre, has just launched a new values-based recruitment toolkit for employers. At present, employers in social care face two key challenges: how to find and …
Online tools allow care workers to improve the provision of information and advice in social care
...a set of principles for how councils can provide high quality information and advice. The principles set out the main issues that councils need to consider when developing a comprehensive...
New proposals to improve care for vulnerable older people
The Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt announced on 5 July that he is seeking views on a set of proposals to radically improve care for vulnerable older people. The proposals set out improvements in primary care and urgent …