Richard White, Group Operations Director, Next Step Independence
Next Step Independence, as the name suggests, was created to ensure that looked after young...
Archive - 28th April 2021
What comes first the chicken or the egg? I was pondering the Social Care equivalent of this paradox one day. What comes first the experience in social care...
Dr Jeremy Tudway, Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and the Clinical Director for Dimensions
Psychology is all about experimentation, so let’s try...
Innovation is often used as a shorthand for change. It’s a term bandied around and often misused. I think, however, that some of the long-standing challenges...
COVID-19 has affected every aspect of our lives over the last year and the social care market has been impacted more than most. Demand has fallen; some smaller...
If the appalling COVID pandemic can be seen to have had any kind of silver lining for the care sector, then it must be the profile it has had and the...
A year to forget, and at the same time most definitely a year to remember. There are few things that people would reflect on 2020 that could be identified as...
As we have recently passed the 12-month milestone of the pandemic having taken effect, the mental strains and stress levels of care workers across the country...
No two days for people in social care are the same. Whether you’re a care professional, supporting others with independence and wellbeing or an...
It is getting on for a quarter of a century since the first in a list of Prime Ministers said that social care was an urgent issue that needed addressing. That...






