Category: Social care
COMPLETING THE PICTURE DIGITAL FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE THIS OCTOBER
An annual event for the medical device industry will this year take place in the form of a digital festival, organisers have announced. Completing the Picture is a much-respected,...
CARE COST CAP SUPPORT IS HIGHER THAN EVER, RESEARCH FINDS
A cap on care costs is the most preferred option by people in the UK when it comes to funding long-term care, new research has found. The latest report from care finance specialist Just...
SOCIAL CARE BOSS LEADS SECTOR FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
A top healthcare boss is pleading with health and social care staff not to miss having the annual flu vaccine this year, to protect the sector at an increasingly difficult time. Uptake from...
CITY & GUILDS JOINS FORCES WITH FUTURELEARN
City & Guilds has partnered with the social learning platform FutureLearn, to turn the tide on unemployment in the UK and help individuals who work in industries impacted by COVID-19 to reskill and...
LEGACY GIFTS TRANSFORM GARDEN INTO ALLOTMENT
A group of adults with learning disabilities from Cornwall has been reaping the rewards of a charity grant and are now growing, cooking and eating food grown in their very own allotment. ...
GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF BEING ‘SLOW’ AND ‘INCONSISTENT’ WITH SOCIAL CARE
A new report published by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the Government of being “slow, inconsistent, and at times negligent” in their approach to social care in the...
A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR ELDERLY LIVING
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need to change the way long-term care is provided. Jitesh Patel, Social Care Sector Lead at Kajima Partnerships, discusses. Although the immediate...
OVER-45S BELIEVE DELAYS TO SOCIAL CARE REFORMS UNDERMINED FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
New research from Just Group has finds that the majority (56%) of over-45s believe that delays to reforming social care hampered the response against COVID-19. Nearly two thirds of over-75s also say...
TALENT CONTEST LIFTS SPIRITS AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Heathcotes Group, a specialist care provider, has been helping to keep its service users engaged during lockdown with a talent contest inviting their services to show off their creative abilities. ...
‘MISGUIDED’ TO CALL FOR CARE HOME RESIDENTS TO BE MOVED INTO HOSPITALS
The Care Association Alliance, a professional body that represents 38 regional Care Associations who between them represent thousands of care services across the UK, have today issued this statement...
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