Continued funding for adult social care learning and development in financial year 2026/27
Investing in the adult social care workforce
Building on the positives
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.
You care, you matter: understanding self-care for social care nurses
Looking after others often takes its toll on unpaid carers and professional care givers. Taking care of ourselves can sometimes feel like the thing we never get around to doing. Attending to our own mental health and wellbeing is important. If we are depleted and exhausted, we cannot give our best... at home or at …
Watch online - Webinar on visiting care homes, hospitals and hospices
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Information sharing, Mental health, News, Public health
Visits from family and loved one’s are an important part of life when living in care settings. During the pandemic the challenges faced by both families and those living in care facilities were huge. We want to make sure, whenever …
Delegated healthcare activities: the principles of great care
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Integrated care, Social care reform, Workforce
What’s your definition of high quality care and support? Safe? Consistent? Person-centred? It is all those things. Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse fort Adult Social Care, celebrates the publication of ‘Delegated healthcare activities: guiding principles for health and social care in England’, giving social care colleagues enhanced tools to deliver the very best care.
The principles of delegated healthcare
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Care and support, Leadership, Workforce
The further embedding of delegated healthcare interventions in the care workforce represents the ongoing initiative to marry social care experience with clinical excellence to deliver enhanced, high quality and consistent care. Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, and Oonagh Smyth, CEO Skills for Care give an update.
We Are Social Care Nursing: conference preview
Ahead of the We Are Social Care Nursing conference on 3 November, Lucy Gillespie, Project Manager for Regulated Professional Workforce at Skills for Care, gives us an overview of what to expect from its theme: 'Shaping the future of nursing in social care'.
Passion, perseverance and the will to succeed
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Mark Bird and Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Leadership, Recognition, Workforce
If you want to know why we present Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care Awards throughout the year, you could do no worse than read this lovely blog from Peer Quality Manager, Mark Bird. He is just one of many colleagues making the care sector a great place to work, supporting and inspiring others, each …
Developing a new framework for delegated healthcare interventions
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Deborah Sturdy and Oonagh Smyth, Posted on:
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Innovation, Integrated care, Viewpoint, Workforce
Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, and Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, look at the progress being made to create a national voluntary framework to support the safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to the social care workforce.
International Nurses Day: our leadership matters
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Deborah Sturdy, Posted on:
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Care and support, Events, Leadership, Social care reform, Workforce
Today is International Nurses Day and, while many outside the caring professions tend to think of nursing in a purely clinical context, those working in or with the adult social care sector know it is so much broader in scope, complexity and provision.