Last week the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, set out his commitment to reform adult social care and deliver a National Care Service.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
...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...
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 …
The Department of Health’s response to the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities and the Six Lives Progress Report on Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities...
...Office to co-ordinate and implement the learning from recent inquiries into historic sexual abuse and current sexual violence prevention issues. The national group will work to improve cross Government delivery,...
The Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt has said that there needs to be a revolution in the health and social care sector by using technology to integrate services. In his recent speech to the Local Government Association (LGA) …
The Department of Health is leading a cross-government review of the 2010 adult autism strategy, ‘Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives’, and is looking for people to give their views about how they think the strategy is working so far. This work …