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’,…
Skills for Care has published its annual State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England report – and announced plans to develop a new and comprehensive workforce…
Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for social care in England, is supporting social care teams to #RecruitRight with its latest campaign. The campaign comes as…
In 2012 I was minding my own business – quite literally – running a small education consultancy. My world (and that of my two sisters) changed when our mum was…
Whilst grief can be roughly divided up into five stages, the process of grieving is far more complex than this. Most people experience grief at some point in their lives….
Article by Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, DHSC | The journey from adversity to equality. Inclusion, acceptance and respect are all essential qualities in the…
Wildlife expert Sean McMenemy encourages the care sector to embrace the wellbeing benefits of birdwatching and gives his top tips for adapting the activity for different accessibility needs.
The massive rise in the cost of electricity and gas has been making headlines for months and continues to do so. When the time comes to renew your contracts you…
Article by Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care at DHSC | Working in adult social care has been an enormous privilege and one of the highlights…
Article by Simon Whalley, Chairman, Birtley House Group Ltd. In a world that has seen such an upheaval in the last year we need to look to the future and…
By Rachel Griffiths, Consultant in the Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Law. | In spring, our lives overtaken by the pandemic, we all found our inner war time spirit…
Karolina Gerlich (Executive Director of The Care Workers’ Charity) on the pandemic’s devastating impact on the social care workforce, and how the charity is supporting our social care heroes through…