Dementia centre’s tips and courses for carers
ADVICE and support for carers is something the Dementia Services Development Centre advises on a global scale.
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ADVICE and support for carers is something the Dementia Services Development Centre advises on a global scale.
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Skills for Care and Skills for Health are developing a code of conduct and minimum training standards for care workers and adult social workers and they are asking for people’s views.
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You certainly don’t have to be a doctor to run a hospital, says Blair McPherson, but if you don’t have the relevant experience you better have someone you trust close to you who does
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A rights and assets-based approach is needed to create sustainable public services. Scotland could already be leading the way, by Ruchir Shah
The Government has called on employers to take action to improve the mental health of people in their organisations. The call comes as organisational change and re-structuring across the public sector has caused a 50 per cent increase in stress-related absence.
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Teenagers in England are shunning drink and drugs for a cleaner lifestyle, say health officials.
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A gathering of social workers from around the world has committed to the urgent development of new guidance aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse.
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Aberdeen’s volunteers and the organisations which recruit them are to benefit from refreshed best practice guidelines when Community Planning Aberdeen launches its Volunteering Strategy this month.
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Do you have an idea that could shape the future social service workforce? The SSSC and the Institute for Innovation and Research in Social Services (IRISS) are working together to develop new solutions to the challenges facing the sector’s workforce. And your idea could become a reality if you get involved in the Workforce of the future challenge.
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Grandparents are increasingly stretched between caring for their grandchildren and looking after elderly or vulnerable relatives, a survey by the website Gransnet has found.
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