Report: Dementia and homecare – driving quality and innovation
A new report serves as a call to action to help people with dementia live well at home for longer. ‘Dementia and homecare: driving quality and innovation’, part of the
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Engage: Hard Evidence – are age and unhappiness related?
If it’s no fun getting old, then why do surveys of national well-being show that older people are happier than younger people? Recent research into happiness, questioning people about their
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Report: Scottish Government publish latest adult social care statistics
Social Care Services, Scotland, 2015 presents the latest national figures for Social Care services provided or purchased by Local Authorities in Scotland. These services give people the support, practical help
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Guidance: Examples of common weaknesses in LA children’s services
This is a summary of common weaknesses in local authorities that were judged inadequate in inspections, between January and May 2015, under the single inspection framework. It aims to help
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Guidance: Giving adults voice, choice and control in social care (DH)
The Department of Health have published new guidance on how staff in social care settings can ensure adults get personalised care and support. Voice, choice and control: how registered nurses,
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Report: Independent Inspection of the Arrangements for Offender Supervision (HMIP)
HM Inspectorate of Probation has published a third report on the early implementation of the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation programme. The report, Transforming Rehabilitation – Early Implementation 3: an Independent Inspection
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Survey: NSPCC seek feedback to inform children’s mental health campaign
The NSPCC are launching a campaign in the New Year to ensure all children who have experienced abuse or neglect across the UK get the therapeutic support they need. To
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New Research: Dementia – Through the eyes of women
This project was conducted by Nada Savitch and Emily Abbott (Innovations in Dementia CIC), and Professor Gillian Parker (Social Policy Research Unit, University of York) and funded by the Joseph
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Engage: We need to raise the status of care workers
As a charity supporting people with learning disabilities we are acutely aware of the many pressures families and care professionals are facing, particularly in a climate of funding cuts and
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Engage: Social work needs more engagement, not a fast track scheme
Fast-tracking people through social work will not address the problems of recruitment and retention for the profession, according to a Plymouth University academic. Di Galpin, Academic lead in social work,
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