Martin Walker, policy advisor at Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) explains his organisation's involvement in a new NICE quality standard for adult social care. He believes involving recipients of care in shaping the services they need is crucial.
Last month, our Minister for Care Caroline Dinenage attended the launch of Carer Confident in Westminster, a new employer benchmarking scheme designed to help businesses of all shapes and sizes create more carer-supportive workplaces for their staff. Funded by the …
Last week, unpaid carers and their supporters celebrated Carers Rights Day. Good friend of this blog and tireless campaigner for improved support for unpaid carers, Fatima Khan-Shah, returns with a new post explaining why this day matters. There are 6.5 million carers …
"Most readers of this blog will know someone who uses adult social care services," says Professor Martin Knapp, Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research in his debut post for Social Care News. "You may actually be that ‘someone’. …
Help DHSC, Carers Trust and a broad range of care and support organisations find new and better ways to identify and support young carers. Anita Wadhawan from our Social Care Strategy and Project team has all the details of their …
Self-care is a priority for the British Medical Association (BMA) says Amanda Cool, Chair of its Patient liaison group. As Self-Care Week gets underway, she explains why caring for ourselves is not selfish. It is a huge understatement to say we …
What’s vitamin D got to do with Self Care Week? Dr David Paynton, GP, Self Care Forum Board member and RCGP National Clinical Lead has the facts at his fingertips… The Self Care Forum has recently launched a factsheet on …
Tim Parkin, Senior Policy Advisor at Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), has spent much of his working life close to - well - policy! Over the years, he's striven to understand, explain and implement many approaches and strategies designed to …
An amazing 300 plus organisations got involved in Self Care Week last year with a reach of more than 22 million people, more than a third of England’s population. Dr Ian Banks, Trustee for the Self Care Forum and President …
In June this year, the Care Provider Alliance published some new guidance to help adult social care providers with contingency planning. Bridget Warr CBE, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Homecare Association, explains its importance as part of a programme …