Be a better manager
The Registered Managers’ Programme from the National Skills Academy for Social Care aims to betterequip registered mangers to meet the challenges they face, to reduce their isolation by networking them...
Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the 2010 adult autism strategy
...stage of the review will last until the end of October 2013. A revised strategy will be published in March 2014. Information supplied by: Michael Swaffield- autism policy lead...
Alzheimer’s Society launches Dementia Friendly Communities
Dementia is the biggest challenge the health and social care system faces today with 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and that figure is set to rise to one...
Funding opens to support voluntary organisations that improve health and social care
Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb announces the latest funding to help voluntary organisations improve people’s health and well-being. The latest round of funding to support voluntary and community organisations to improve people’s health and well-being has now opened, the …
Learning Disability Week is underway
This annual campaign, led by Mencap and running until 25 August, celebrates the strength and courage of people with a learning disability, their families and carers. This year, it is celebrating families and the everyday superheroes who make all the …
UK to host G8 dementia summit
The UK is to host the first G8 dementia summit to lead international action on tackling the condition. The UK is making the fight against dementia global by hosting the first G8 summit dedicated to seeking an ambitious level of …
Keeping in touch - changes to NHSmail
Following the NHS re-structure in April, work is underway to re-assign individual NHSmail email accounts from the old to the new structures. If you have regular contact with NHS staff or organisations please note that, as a result of this work, some …
Recruiting for values in social care: a new toolkit for employers
The National Skills Academy for Social Care, working in partnership with Skills for Care and MacIntyre, has just launched a new values-based recruitment toolkit for employers. At present, employers in social care face two key challenges: how to find and …
Online tools allow care workers to improve the provision of information and advice in social care
...a set of principles for how councils can provide high quality information and advice. The principles set out the main issues that councils need to consider when developing a comprehensive...
New proposals to improve care for vulnerable older people
The Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt announced on 5 July that he is seeking views on a set of proposals to radically improve care for vulnerable older people. The proposals set out improvements in primary care and urgent …