Social Care Wales have announced the appointment of Mick Giannasi CBE as their Chair and that Maria Battle and Trystan Pritchard will be joining their Board. Mr Giannasi replaces Arwel
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Care workers suffered more than 6,000 violent attacks resulting in serious injuries during the last five years, new official figures show. The statistics, which were obtained under the Freedom of
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Scotland’s social services have been honoured for their outstanding commitment to improving the lives of the people they support at the Scottish Social Services Awards which took place in Edinburgh
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Politicians need to face up to the need for higher taxes or radical reforms to care for the UK’s ageing population, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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Schwartz Center Rounds® were created from an idea by Kenneth B. Schwartz – who passed away in 1995 from lung cancer, aged 40. A few months before Kenneth B. Schwartz
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Voluntary organisations across Scotland are benefitting from grants totalling more than £1.2 million which will help social service workers gain qualifications, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) announced today. The
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Night shifts do not increase the risk of breast cancer, a ten-year study of more than 100,000 UK women suggests. The research, published in the British Journal of Cancer, found
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Social Care Wales has published a new set of resources to support social care practitioners with assessing carers’ support needs. The resources will help practitioners carry out high quality assessments
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England has fallen behind other UK countries on adult social care spending, new analysis suggests. The country spent around a third less per person than Scotland and Wales in 2010/11,
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Councils will need to spend £6.1bn per year more in 2025 on adult social care services compared to what they were spending a decade ago, new figures reveal. England’s 36
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