Female genital mutilation (FGM) is recognised globally as a human rights violation with no known health benefits and a lifetime of physical and psychological harm. Efforts continue to be made internationally to raise awareness and put an end to this …
The Transforming Care Delivery Board, comprising NHS England, the Local Government Association (LGA), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Health Education England (HEE) and the Department of Health has today published a …
Katharine Robbins, Social Care Programme Manager at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), wrote recently to all directors of adult social care and their performance teams to share news of the initial changes to adult social care data …
‘To make a real difference to the lives of children and young people you need to be involved in early intervention for the long run,’ says Jovian Smalley, Engagement Manager at the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing in his …
“The protection of our children is crucial,” says Tom Burnett, Child Health Programme Manager at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). In his first blog for Social Care News, he explains how his organisation’s work on information sharing …
If a school or college is judged to be failing its school children or students through lack of leadership and/or poor quality teaching, there are systems in place to encourage rapid improvement or face the prospect of closure – so …
All of us have the right to feel safe in our own homes. Despite this, many people remain vulnerable - and it's not just the young who may be at risk, says Dame Clare Tickell, Chief Executive, Hanover Housing Association. When …
The Social Care News blog will always promote initiatives designed to protect the vulnerable and the young. And when that initiative involves a call for better information sharing we are especially keen. Those of you working in - or using …
I hope, like me, you have never experienced - or ever will experience - face-down restraint or other restrictive interventions. However, I know some of you may have witnessed such events or restrained someone yourselves. I can only imagine what …
Suicide. It is unquestionably one of the most heartbreaking and traumatic subjects to tackle from a health and care perspective, but tackle it we must. Today, the Department of Health has published its first annual report on England’s cross-government suicide …