Research in Practice and their partners are interested to understand how councils are trying to enable closer and more fluid working between adult safeguarding and children’s safeguarding. Colleagues are in
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This guidance replaces the Scottish Government’s national guidance Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment (2007). Safer recruitment is about properly examining the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in
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A new paper from the Social Care Institute for Excellence looks at three hypothetical future scenarios, and how the sector might respond to the challenges and opportunities those scenarios offer
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Vulnerable older people are being denied regular showers and visits to the toilet because of cuts to social care budgets, a UNISON report has warned today. The Damage: Care in
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This report focuses on the role of nurses in the care and support of older people and has been developed in partnership with Age NI. The work has seen the
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This series of toolkits has been designed to equip care homes with ideas and materials in order for them to provide a service focused on residents’ needs, preferences and activity
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A new report says those in Wales who suffered four or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with a chronic disease in
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A new listening programme to find out more about the experiences of people with dementia and their carers starts in England. The Department of Health’s (DH) listening programme will include
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NSPCC has put out a call for a rapid literature review to identify interventions, campaigns, activities and community behaviours which are effective in preventing parents facing adversity going on to
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Summary This article reports on research undertaken to critically examine portrayals, representations and discourses of social work and social workers in UK film and television drama from the 1960s to
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