Why we need Self Care Week
The Self Care Forum believes awareness weeks are vital for encouraging people to make better choices about their health and wellbeing. Chair, Helen Donovan, explains how we can all help make the change...
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Social care nursing at the heart of International Nurses Day 2024
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Communities, Events, Leadership, Workforce
Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy: "I’ve been in this profession for decades, but only in recent years has the wider world begun to realise the full range, experience and contribution social care nursing colleagues bring to the health and wellbeing of our communities."
NCASC 2023: back to Bournemouth for big conversations
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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...
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.
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.
The NHS is 75 and so is the social care system
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Communities, Events, Workforce
"In difficult and uncertain times, it’s important to be thankful for the constancy of institutions and organisations supporting us through good times and bad", says Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy in a special blog to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS and the creation of the social care system.
Learning Disability Week: dispelling misconceptions
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Laura Storey, Posted on:
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Events, learning disabilities, Viewpoint, Workforce
It's Learning Disability Week (19-25 June). This year, the aim is to show the world the incredible things people with learning disabilities can achieve, smashing misconceptions and shining a light on the stigma and misunderstanding many still face everyday.
Carers Week 2023: crunching the numbers...
Emily Holzhausen OBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK, believes we need to think and plan differently for people with unpaid caring responsibilities. Carers Week is an opportunity to look at the scale of caring responsibilities and consider how to we can create more effective support for carers.
International Nurses Day: celebrating our values, strengths and ambition
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Events, Leadership, Social care reform, Workforce
This month sees the annual celebration of International Nurses Day on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. In difficult and uncertain times, celebrating social care nursing's amazing contribution to the health and wellbeing of our communities is more important than ever.
Make time for young carers
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Andy McGowan, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, child protection, Communities, Events
Young Carers Action Day aims to shine a light on the pressures and challenges young carers up to the age of 25 face on a daily basis. The UK-wide campaign is designed to raise public awareness of the incredible contribution they make to society. A mix of local and national initiatives are taking place across the country to help their voices be heard, as Carers Trust's Andy McGowan explains...