Last week the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, set out his commitment to reform adult social care and deliver a National Care Service.
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 …
For advocates of traditional community social work, it must be pleasing to see the growing popularity of strengths-based social care, says Ewan King, Director of Business Development at the Social Care Institute for Excellence. For while, social work – and …
Physical or psychological abuse can happen to anyone at any time but, as the Christmas season approaches, tensions may be running higher than usual in domestic, professional and public settings. We are honoured, therefore, to host this timely blog from …
The final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act has been handed to the office of the Prime Minister – just over a year after she appointed Professor Simon Wessely to oversee it. Mark Trewin reveals how …
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 …
Here at Social Care News we are very pleased to present the latest blog from our friends at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). This time, it's Nageena Khalique QC. She's a barrister and Chair of the Committee …
"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’. …
“One of the underpinning elements of the new ‘Making it Real’ framework, is that all forms of support are based on conversations around what matters most to people” says Jim Thomas, Programme Head at Skills for Care. In his latest …
Ewan King, director of business development and delivery, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) looks forward to discussing this and other hot topics at this week's NCASC conference in Manchester. It is easy to forget in immensely difficult …
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 …