Leaders from health and social care pledged to improve quality of life in care homes at a summit opened yesterday by The Princess Royal, Patron of the College of Occupational
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A free phone app to help social workers in England plan and evidence their professional development via their tablets and smart phones is now available to download for Apple and
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Following discussions, Skills for Care and the National Skills Academy for Social Care have agreed, in principle and subject to contract, to merge their organisations. Both parties anticipate that the
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An academy to recruit and train social workers has been launched by Medway Council. The Medway academy will specialise in social worker training, working with the University of Kent and
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The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have produced a new set of learning tools to support services and organisations to embed the Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland (2011).
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New Common core principles to support good mental health and wellbeing in adult social care were launched Skills for Care’s national conference in Birmingham. Also launched was a worker’s implementation
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Skills for Care is backing a new strategy that aims to help adult social care employers support 1.5 million workers to use Electronic Assistive Technology (eAT) in their work. For
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Social care employers are being urged to have their say on a learning and development plan designed to identify which roles will be affected by the Care Bill. The sector
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Skills for Care has launched a series of new, short film clips to help adult social care employers get the most out of using the National Minimum Data Set for
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The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) is inviting practitioners, academics, policy makers and others working with looked after children to submit a proposal for a
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