Self Care Week 2022: exercise your power
Self Care Week, the annual national awareness campaign, encouraging support for self care across communities, families and generations, is back and lead, once again, by the Self Care Forum.
Mark Osterloh
Mark Osterloh is a Senior Policy Manager at the Department of Health.
NCASC 2022 is here!
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Events, Mental health, Safeguarding, Social care reform, social work, Workforce
The National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) is back - and in the physical realm this time after two years of pandemic-enforced virtual presentations. Once again, the Manchester Central Exhibition Centre is the venue for the year's biggest social care event, taking place this week, 2 - 4 November.
Carers Week: mental health support for both carers and the cared for
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Care and support, Carers, Events, Mental health
Tracey thought her fiancé was struggling with his father’s death but realised later he was experiencing psychosis. She describes how caring for him has brought them even closer together. Marking Carers Week, this wonderful blog, brought to us by Rethink Mental Illness, reminds us that, while unpaid carers are doing an amazing job supporting loved ones, they need support and understanding too.
NCASC 2018: Happy Wednesday...
...and Thursday and a bit of Friday too! Yes, the National Children and Adult Services Conference (#NCASC18) returns to the Manchester Central social care scene as of Wednesday 14 November. If only we had a pair of maracas like Bez, …
Getting the message
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child protection, Communities, Information sharing
If you had the chance, what would you tell your younger self? That’s a question posed on Respect Yourself’s website, a registered UK charity dedicated to helping young people make informed and independent decisions using the lived experience and acquired …
NCAS 2017: Let’s make caring everybody’s business
Workshop: Working together to develop carer friendly communities Wednesday 11 October 12.10 – 1.10 Solent Hall How can we improve the support we provide to today’s carers? The Department of Health Carers policy team is collaborating with sector partners to …
NCAS 2017: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Q&A
DH exhibition stand Q&A: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Thursday 12 October, 3.10 – 3.40 Exhibition Hall Up to an estimated 200,000 people in England lack the capacity to make decisions about their personal care or healthcare and may require Deprivation …
NCAS 2017 comes back to Bournemouth!
“Jurassic coast!” If Alan Partridge was, for some unfathomable reason, launching this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCAS), I’d like to think he might open with just such an exclamation of excitement, noting as he should the triumphant …
Digital care and support planning survey - last chance to contribute
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) is currently working on the production of a digital care and support planning standard. Following a workshop, they are now conducting a survey for the final stages of the project and Social Care News …
Help us find new and better ways to identify and support young carers
We don't often put out straight news stories but this one features an important request. The Department of Health has issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to improve identification of young carers. This is a key piece of work designed …