What are you doing for National Apprenticeship Week?
Adult social care is a rewarding and fulfilling career - that's the message of National Apprenticeship Week, currently underway and co-ordinated by the National Apprenticeship Service, with the full support of Skills for Care. It's an opportunity to increase awareness of …
Better Care Fund events for the South East and North West - book now!
As part of wider engagement and communications activity around the Better Care Fund, two further free regional, locally led events for people from across the health and system are being held in mid March. The events will include presentations and …
Lyn Romeo champions better social care education in new blog
Today sees the launch of Lyn Romeo's new blog, hosted on GOV.UK, in which she pledges to comment regularly on "issues affecting social work" as she builds relationships "across government, the social work sector and the wider public, to help …
Today's concordat builds on networking spirit
As part of our launch coverage for the new Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, we are very proud to host an acutely personal account of mental crisis from Michael J Bevan, County Councillor, Sherborne Rural Division, Dorset County Council. It …
Why I became a member champion for mental health
The years 2001/02 were dark, bleak and dismal ones for me. My domestic life and career were both in turmoil, my marriage was breaking down, I had acute debt problems and was constantly bullied at work. They were months of …
Mental health crisis care concordat receives high level endorsement
Listen to Minister for Care and Support Norman Lamb, Metropolitan Police Commander Christine Jones and former boxer, now campaigner on mental health issues, Frank Bruno endorse the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat's aims on a visit to an NHS trust …
Care and support reform: supporting implementation
Catering for the health and care needs of our growing and aging population is a national priority, explains Kristian Hibberd, Communications Manager, Local Government Association. Reforming our care and support system is vital for us to be able to meet …
I Care...Ambassadors Week: 10-14 February - get involved!
All too often, it's the negative issues around adult social care which attract the headlines, obscuring the fact that the care sector is a vibrant and rewarding place to work. Care workers and their employers should be rightly proud of …
Clarity and choice: planning our future care
Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, and Director General of the Association of British Insurers, Otto Thoresen, have signed a joint ‘statement of intent’ committing to work together to improve access to financial information and promote a wider choice of …
Consultation heralds new social care topics for NICE
The Department of Health opened up a public consultation last spring to seek people’s views on new topics for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to produce social care quality guidance and standards on from 2015 onwards. …