Keeping care home visits viable as restrictions ease
Gil Chimon, a care home manager at dementia care specialist Vida Healthcare, discusses how visiting arrangements are working under the new guidance and expresses his hopes for the future.
Weekly testing and staff wellbeing
Home Instead were among the first homecare providers in the UK to begin weekly COVID-19 testing of their staff. Karina Brown, managing director of Home Instead Bromley, shares initial experiences with the Social Care blog and the Department of Health and Social Care to help shape future workplace testing.
It started with a shift...
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Clenton Farquharson CBE, Posted on:
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Care and support, Leadership, Safeguarding, Viewpoint
"If we want to reform the social care system it has to start with a wholesale shift in the way all of us, at every level of the system, view the very people who draw on services." TLAP's Clenton Farquharson returns to the Social Care blog with some positive musings on the future of social …
Care home staff vaccination: we need your views
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Carers, Consultations and surveys, coronavirus
Last month, the Department of Health and Social Care launched an open consultation seeking your views on making vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes, to protect the people most at risk in our communities. The consultation remains open until Friday 21 May 2021. Many of you have contributed, but we still …
WRES stories: Bristol onboard for culture change
Bristol Council's Principal Social Workers are very pleased to be taking part in the Workforce Race and Equality Standard (WRES) national pilot for which there has been strong support from colleagues. They see this as an opportunity to share learning from their collective experiences and help drive organisational change.
Call to Care to the rescue
Coordinating staffing levels, mealtimes, medication and care planning in a care home is always challenging. Add COVID-19 to the mix and it's even harder. Find out how our 'Call to Care' recruitment drive helped the Woodfalls Care Home solve a staffing issue and keep its residents safe and well.
Partners in Care: supporting care home visiting
The National Care Forum, Rights for Residents and other partners have developed a set of resources, designed to provide practical support to care home staff, residents and visitors observing the current care home visiting guidance. Partners in Care includes a growing suite of resources including a visiting charter and pledge, setting out shared rights, responsibilities …
Putting the 'social' back in social care
"During a pandemic, which is still far from over, few of us have escaped moments of loneliness or isolation. Even in large households, where a major focus of stress can be a sense of overcrowding and a lack of time to yourself, people have missed out on seeing close friends, relatives and loved ones." Alex …
Strengths based practice makes perfect
"There is still some way to go before strengths-based working becomes the norm in our services and communities. Leadership is vital if we are to achieve this aspiration", believes Robin Miller, Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health and Social Care at the University of Birmingham.
WRES stories: time for a change in practice
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Mark Harvey, Fran Leddra, Tom Stibbs and Richard Cattell, Posted on:
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Information sharing, social work, Workforce, WRES
Making sure the voices of staff from all ethnic backgrounds are heard are central to the objectives of the Workplace Race Equality Standard (WRES). In our first in a dedicated series of blogs, Brighton & Hove City Council’s Principal Social Workers Richard Cattell and Tom Stibbs reflect on challenges within their organisation, how the WRES …