Inquiries in the UK into mistreatment of older people by healthcare employees over the last 30 years have focused on introducing or supporting employee whistle-blowing. Although whistle-blowers have made an
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When is the last time you had to organise a hospital discharge at short notice or skip lunch in order to type up a backlog of needs assessments? Perhaps you’ve
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Pearltrees is a creative and visual way to save and manage your favourite websites or ‘pearls’ as they are known. ‘Pearls’ – websites, files, photos and notes – can be
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Skills for Health have launched a new Roles Directory, an online resource designed to promote the sharing of jobs and roles across the NHS, independent and voluntary sectors. The Directory
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It seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus
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Child sexual abuse is a not a subject that most people choose to dwell on for very long, however, the reality is that we are living in a world where
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This article assesses how social innovations in the field of local domiciliary long-term care are shaped and implemented. It proposes a mapping of innovations in terms of two structuring discourses
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Social care policy is actively promoting integrated and personalised care. Local organisations are starting to re-engineer their business processes, review front line practice, develop new operational tools and revise their
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A new review has identified concerning gaps in research and support for brothers and sisters of disabled people. UK charity Sibs, for siblings of disabled people, has worked with the
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Adult social care in England emphasises the service and support preferences of disabled and older people. Personal budgets play a central role in this development. Carers in England have also
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