My Home Life & Care England Series: Thrive Securely
It’s week 4 of our guest blog series with My Home Life England, who are bringing to life the powerful stories uncovered in their ‘Thriving in Residential Care’ research, and…
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My Home Life & Care England Series: Thrive Inclusively
This is week 3 of a 6 part series ‘Thriving in Residential Care’ in collaboration with My Home Life England, spotlighting real, powerful stories of how life in a care…
My Home Life & Care England Series: Thrive Actively
Based on their large-scale research ‘Thriving in Residential Care’, My Home Life England is collaborating with Care England to bring you a series of 6 articles spotlighting real stories from…
International Women’s Day: Championing Women in Social Care
Today, on International Women’s Day, we celebrate the remarkable women who form the backbone of our social care system. With 81% of the social care workforce being female, their dedication…
My Home Life & Care England Series: Thrive Relationally
Care England is collaborating with My Home Life England to bring you a series of 6 articles spotlighting real, powerful stories of how living in a care home is transforming…
Provider’s Unite Walk at Westminster
Yesterday, thousands of care providers, frontline staff, service users, and advocates stood together in solidarity for the Providers Unite Day of Action. From Westminster to local gatherings across the country,…
Recruitment readiness: Preparing your care business for what’s to come in 2025
In today’s business landscape, care businesses must be able to adapt to be successful. Keeping up with the latest technology, dealing with a challenging market, and managing many other…
Skills for Care’s latest campaign focuses on ‘Improving digital confidence’
Throughout November and December Skills for Care is running a campaign to support people working in social care to feel confident with digital technology. The campaign titled ‘Improving digital confidence’,…
Shortages to Solutions: Transforming your Temporary Care Staffing.
Staff shortages have risen by 52% in the last year to 165,000 vacancies, according to Skills for Care. The nationwide staffing crisis remains a spotlight in the media with thousands…
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social care in the UK and how social care providers could use ChatGPT
What better way to start this blog by stating candidly (duty of candour) that in preparing this article, I asked ChatGPT to write me a 500 word blog on, “The…
Dispelling data protection myths
As part of the Better Security, Better Care programme, I’ve been helping care groups to navigate their data and cyber security journey – and it’s had some interesting detours. Covid…
The White Paper: learning from history and healthy Luddism
It is now two months since the Government published the White Paper, “People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform”. The aspiration to realise the full benefits of…