The Outstanding Society

A very Happy New Year to everyone working in Social Care. 

The Outstanding Society is open to all adult social care providers, irrelevant of their rating. Membership is free and you can attend our monthly virtual events, receive newsletters, listen to our podcasts, and download our app which are all free resources to share and celebrate best practice and help everyone in Social Care to improve. We also like to raise the profile of Careers in Social Care. So why delay! Visit our website to register now!

The Directors would like to start the New Year by congratulating the 9 services who had their Outstanding Inspection Reports published in December. Each month we will post these on our app to congratulate the teams and take golden nuggets from the reports to share with providers – we realise how busy everyone is within social care so let us do the work for you and share topics that help providers achieve an Outstanding Rating.

We already have a busy year planned with our virtual meetings, starting in January with Professor Martin Green, CEO Care England ‘The Year for Social Care’ and February ‘Can Care be Cool’ with Ooangh Smyth CEO Skills for Care.

For providers registered for nursing please do start to plan for National Nurses Day! Friday May 12th where we will be planning a celebration with Skills for Care and Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care.

If you haven’t already done so book your free place at the Care Show London Excel 26th and 27th April and you can find us in our learning lounge providing informal sessions with some fantastic leaders in Social Care.

Finally, we must start the year by encouraging providers to get involved with research in social care. The OS are leading on the VIVALDI future project with UCL and Care England to tackle the problem of infection in care homes by establishing a new programme of research and surveillance, using data to help shape the future of social care through supporting improvements in care quality.
Between January and March, we will be onboarding care homes who are keen to take part in the project. The pilot will run for a year and will not involve any increased work for managers or their teams so we would encourage you to get involved for this exciting year of shaping research in Social Care.

The Outstanding Society is a Community Interest Company free to all providers irrelevant of their rating. It is a platform to share and celebrate best practice, help others to improve and promote careers in Social Care. Please contact Alan – info@theoutstandingsociety.co.uk for more information or follow the links below.