As King Charles III and Queen Camilla ascended to the throne at the weekend, customers and families at Belong villages across the North West and Midlands...
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As it’s Dying Matters Awareness week this month, Skills for Care looks at what support is available for care workers providing end of life care.
One of the...
Social care is an incredibly rewarding but also very stressful profession, and many of our colleagues are dealing with incredibly sensitive and difficult...
Kate Lee, CEO, Alzheimer’s Society
One person every three minutes develops dementia. By 2040, 1.6 million people will have the condition in the UK. The...
Shared Lives care takes a person-centred approach, enabling people to live the fulfilling life that they choose. Hope Lightowler, 24 who currently lives in...
Katherine Greer is involved with Praxis Care on two levels: not only does she access mental health support, but she is also employed as a co-researcher, using...
Last month UNISON announced that staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had voted to take strike action over pay. More than 700 workers were balloted by...
By Jackie Taylor , Senior Development Officer, Changing Our Lives
When people think of co-production, they often think of getting disabled people together in...
It is estimated that there are 1.2 million older gay and lesbian people in the UK (Semlyen 2016), and as many as 68,000 LGBTQ+ people living with dementia...
Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth discusses what social care managers can do to support diversity among their teams.
I’m pleased to see this month’s issue...
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