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Social care campaign marks first year by challenging misconception of ‘low skilled’ workforce

By Laura McKellar, Reporter3rd March 2020New To Care, News Wales

Social care, early years and childcare employees today came together to mark the first year of the WeCare Wales campaign and challenge the public’s perception of their jobs. They are

New dashboard to inform local authority social care planning launched in Wales

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter2nd March 2020News Wales, Webwatch

Welsh social care regulator, Social Care Wales, has launched a new dashboard showing local authority spend on social care. This new dashboard is available in English and Welsh, as part

Tory MPs pressure Boris Johnson to end ‘Groundhog Day’ approach to social care reform

By Richard Wheeler, Elizabeth Arnold, Lewis McKenzie and George Ryan, Reporters26th February 2020News England

Boris Johnson has come under increasing pressure from Tory MPs to deliver long-promised social care reforms. Conservative former health minister Jackie Doyle-Price said it was “high time that we really

NHS warned it will ‘pay the price’ if at-home rehab not offered to patients

By George Ryan, Reporter26th February 202026th February 2020News England

The NHS will “pay the price” if it does not embrace at-home rehabilitation, a former health minister has warned. Community rehabilitation provides tailored support for patients outside hospital to allow

Innovative dementia learning event to tour Northern Ireland in March

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter21st February 2020News Northern Ireland

The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) in partnership with the Public Health Agency have announced they are bringing the Virtual Dementia Tour to Northern Ireland. Facilitated by Training 2 Care

New To Care: Mental Health Team Leader Kim talks ’emotional resilience and incredible transformations’

By Laura McKellar, Reporter21st February 2020New To Care

Mental Health Team Leader Kim McGinley doesn’t sugarcoat the challenges she faces in her role, but even allowing for the ‘peaks & troughs’, she insists a career in adult social

New To Care: Supporting people make positive life changing decisions is ‘feeling that never fades’

By Laura McKellar, Reporter20th February 202020th February 2020New To Care

We caught up with Kelly Innes, Mental Health Team Leader, at with YOU in Edinburgh about her role and why you should consider a career in adult social care. Kelly

Labour brands new immigration system ‘meaningless’ due to number of exemptions

By Harriet Line and Tess De La Mare, Reporters19th February 2020News England

The Government’s new post-Brexit immigration system will need so many exemptions it will be “meaningless”, Labour has claimed. Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott criticised the plan, which seeks to lower

Government warned new immigration rules could ‘spell absolute disaster for the care sector’

By Flora Thompson, Reporter19th February 2020News England

Changes to the UK’s immigration rules could “spell absolute disaster” for the care system and risk farmers, builders and hospitality businesses being hit the hardest, industry leaders have warned. The

Southport child-killer detained for at least 52 years for ‘sadistic’ murders of girls

Whitehall ‘group think’ and inter-departmental ‘open warfare’ slammed by vaccine tsar

Home Secretary announces inquiry into how Rudakubana ‘came to be so dangerous’