Unpaid carer's leave: your right to look after yourself
Caring at home and work is tough I know from my own experience how challenging it can be juggling a busy work life and looking after a family member, in my case my mum at the end of her …
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Real world expertise shapes the very best care
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Raf Hamaizia, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Communities, Diversity, Workforce
Experts by Experience are people with lived experience of using, or caring for someone who has used, health and or social care services. Discover how their insights help provide truly person-centred care.
An opportunity to grow shared living
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Jess Jackson, Heather Thomson and Rebecca Viney-Wood, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Communities, Social care reform
"At Shared Lives Plus, we oversee two models of shared living: Homeshare, and Shared Lives. Shared Lives is a simple concept; it is a person-centred model which matches people who need support with those who can give it."
NCASC 2023: back to Bournemouth for big conversations
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Mark Osterloh, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Communities, Digital skills and technologies, Events, Social care reform, social work, Workforce
The National Children and Adults Services Conference (#NCASC23) returns to the Jurassic Coast and the Bournemouth International Conference Centre (BIC) this week (29 November – 1 December). Find out who, what and where in our conference preview...
Home is where the delegated healthcare is
In recent years, the concept of supporting healthcare activities at home has gained significant traction,and for good reason. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasised the importance of accessible, high-quality healthcare, prompting a shift towards home and community-based care as a viable alternative to more traditional health and care settings.
Choice and control in the adult social care sector
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Dr Laura Griffith, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Communities, Social care reform, Workforce
In the last ten years, landmark legislation and policy frameworks have sought to create social care systems which are more person-centred and support individuals to have greater choice and control. Find out about IMPACT's work turning the evidence of this into action.
Get ready for Self Care Week
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Helen Donovan, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Communities, Events, Guidance, Information sharing
Self Care Week returns 13-19 November this year. It's the annual, UK-wide awareness week run by the Self Care Forum, a charity aiming to further the reach of self-care in the population, making it everyone’s everyday habit and culture, to think and practice self-care.
Why Professional Care Workers' Week matters
As the much-anticipated Professional Care Workers’ Week in 2023 gets underway, Chief Executive, Karolina Gerlich, is thrilled to share why The Care Workers Charity promotes this vital week of awareness and appreciation.
Celebrating co-production
SCIE recently marked the eighth year of its annual Co-production Week, a five day national festival of co-production in action, in which the organisation and its partners celebrated and shared good practice in co-production in social care.
Supporting adult carers: our role as care professionals
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Guidance, Information sharing, Workforce
NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) published their guidance on supporting adult carers in 2020. It aims to improve their lives by helping health and social care practitioners identify people caring for someone and give them the right information and resources to live and care well.