Happy New Year! I hope every adult social care colleague, carer and those accessing care and support had a lovely Christmas and welcomed in 2026 with rest, reflection and renewed energy.
Regular blog readers know we like to feature updates from our communication colleagues in other departments, especially when those updates may be of use to those of us working in - or with - the care and support sector. With …
The Self Care Forum, established in 2011, is the national UK organisation dedicated to helping people take care of themselves. Founding member Gopa Mitra explains their mission to further the reach of self care and embed it into everyday life …
World Mental Health Day 2014 marked 24 hours of focused activity on promoting better mental health around the world. In many ways though it's already been a 'mental health year' given the flurry of announcements, initiatives, consultations and new commitments …
The Social Care News blog will always promote initiatives intended to better support those working in - or receiving help from - the care and support sector. Today, Lyn Romeo, the Chief Social Worker for Adults, launches an important new …
This week, Time to Change released data revealing public attitudes towards mental illness have improved significantly in recent years, with the biggest annual improvement in the last decade taking place in 2013. Sue Baker, the organisation’s director, takes us through …
As a department we are always looking for new and effective ways to communicate our work and that of our sector partners. To this end, we hope visitors to this blog are also aware of the excellent Dementia Challenge site …
The Department of Health has published a new report setting out the government’s plans to improve access to mental health care services. Significantly, it introduces the intention to roll out national waiting time standards for the first time by April …
Eight weeks into her post as Head of Better Care in Portsmouth, Jo York prepares to present an update on the region's Better Care plans to a diverse audience of local health and social care staff, service users, carers and …
For me, the Mental Health Act Code of Practice consultation has been an incredibly rewarding exercise. In the ten weeks to 12 September, we held over 20 engagement events and received more than 300 submissions via email, post and online, …
"Social media are often in the news for the wrong reasons, but in the last two years I have been struck by something positive - the emotional support they offer to people who cannot easily find it elsewhere", explains the …