The Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Education asked Sir Martin Narey to review children’s residential care in England. Sir Martin’s report ‘ Residential care in England‘ looks at
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Research in Practice, working with the research teams at UEA and Warwick University, has launched a new open access website – Serious Case Reviews – to support the application of learning
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Organising and hosting events and conferences can involve a lot of administration. Conference programmes, and speaker and venue information need to be printed out and collated into delegate packs, which
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Anyone who works in the care sector knows how serious their job can be and often times the idea of fun just doesn’t come into it. However, here Simon North
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This consultation seeks your views on proposed changes across Ofsted’s inspections of children’s social care. It has 4 parts: Principles for children’s social care inspectionsThis section sets out three principles
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The Care Council for Wales will soon be publicising its framework with all those involved with Dementia within health and social care services in Wales, called ‘Good Work: A Dementia Learning and
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Right across England and Wales, local councils have been coping with successive cuts to their budgets for the past six years. Between 2010 and 2015, cuts to local councils amounted
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Last Sunday I had the privilege of taking part in the Royal College of Nursing 100th anniversary Congress which was held in Glasgow for the first time. Together with the
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Mental health continues to be in the headlines. To support the agenda for better mental health, the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham in partnership with the Centre
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For over a decade, England has used social business models in health and social care as an attractive alternative to either state monopolies or privatisation. This includes the organisational models
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