Care staff invited to provide views on strategy for older people
Social care staff are being asked to help shape a strategy for older people in Scotland and help improve services.
With National Care Service plans...
Antser trials VR technology to support training of foster carers
Antser is trialling virtual reality (VR) technology at two councils to help deliver trauma and safeguarding training among foster carers.
The tech solutions provider is...
‘Hastily scraped together’ care cap amendment rejected by peers
Members of the House of Lords have voted against a government amendment to the Care Act covering the cap on care costs, with one...
ARCO commissions review into the case for IRCs
Professor Les Mayhew and the International Longevity Centre will lead a review into the case for integrated retirement communities (IRCs) and the scale of...
Signature Senior Lifestyle launches dementia strategy
Signature Senior Lifestyle has launched a dementia strategy, with a focus on five key areas.
Its My Life dementia pathway, which has been developed in...
Community Integrated Care calls for ‘real change’ over workforce
Community Integrated Care is investing £3m in workforce pay – the second uplift it has provided in the past six months.
Frontline support workers will...
Mandatory Covid-19 jab regulations to end this month
Regulations making Covid-19 vaccination a condition of deployment in health and social care will be revoked on Tuesday 15 March.
The health and social care...
Allocated funding for reforms ‘insufficient by some margin’
Concerns are growing that the government’s reforms to adult social care are underfunded and risk worsening existing pressures.
The warning has come from the Local...
Social care providers ‘grappling’ with paper-based records
Sajid Javid wants to see all social care providers adopt digital records as part of an era of recovery and reform.
Speaking at the HSJ...
Churchill opens Bristol office and recruits regional head
Churchill Retirement Living has opened a regional office in Bristol as it expands its coverage into South West England and South Wales.
The Bristol office...
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