“Seeing residents smile during our knitting club makes my day. It brings home how transformative and life-changing care work can be.” These are the words...
Archive - 27th January 2020
Joan Sirett, Matron at Sonnet Care Homes, has dedicated her life to caring for others, having received her nursing qualification in 1980. She was...
Protecting care providers and patients
Each month we feature an Award-Winning finalist; inspirational individual or team who are really...
Skills for Care is looking for innovative social care organisations to host ambitious graduates on a one-year programme designed to develop future leaders in...
Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive, Care England
The health and social care systems spend enormous amounts of money on training and development, yet...
Every year thousands of young people leave care. When they turn 18 they are expected to live independently, look after their own finances, find employment...
“I enjoy a good night’s sleep. However, having responsibility for a portfolio of homes across the North of England, being a Nominated Individual and...
Ruth Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Christchurch Group (the UK’s leading provider of neurological rehabilitation services) reflects on a report published...
The CQC has a wide range of criminal enforcement powers which include the power to prosecute and issue fixed penalty notices or simple cautions...
Putting homecare on the map
What keeps me awake at night is thinking about how to put homecare on the map. If we, as a society, were to invest in enabling...






