This week, social workers from the UK’s four high secure hospitals for psychiatric patients – Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth in England and the State Hospital in Scotland – met for a conference to share good practice. Organised by the West London Mental Health NHS Trust and Ealing Council – who are responsible for Broadmoor – [...]
Since introducing its deficit reduction plan the government has been keen to stress that its priority in making cuts was to protect the vulnerable.Judged against this ambition, today’s announcement from communities secretary Eric Pickles of a £250m fund to help councils reintroduce or maintain weekly bin collections (plus some other stuff to promote recycling) seems [...]
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has produced a video on safeguarding adults in care homes.It’s worth a look if you have time. It has some good practice from a home in Leeds, where all staff have safeguarding training and supervision sessions on safeguarding, and any issues of concern, such as unexplained bruising, are recorded [...]
A combination of volunteers from homelessness charity St Mungo’s and an area improvement agency are celebrating after winning a London in Bloom award.The Putting Down Roots volunteers (some of whom are pictured left) and Team London Bridge won the Capital Growth category for their work transforming the gardens at Melior Street in Bermondsey. The partnership [...]
“Insufficient Staff with appropriate qualifications, experience or expertise e.g. chefs/cooks”“Lack of staff training to meet specialist or diverse dietary needs”“Insufficient staffing levels in care homes/hospitals or lack of volunteer schemes to embed hospital ‘Red Tray & Red Jug’ system for assistance with eating/drinking at mealtimes.”These are three reasons that contribute to failure according to the [...]
There’s a sad story from Oxford about a bed-ridden 94-year-old woman who died after her daughter and only carer had a seizure and died.Neither used social services and both appear from the story to have been well-known within the community so a key message from the local carers group is the need for carers to [...]
This question is posed in a blog post by Alex Fox, chief executive of small providers body Naaps and the man chosen to help shape the government’s thinking on preventive services as part of its engagement process ahead of next year’s White Paper. He makes the compelling point that people can individually claim an entitlement [...]
I’ve been contacted via Twitter about Sharne the dog, the fine looking German Shepherd pictured above, whose owner has gone into residential care in the Leeds area. Unfortunately the care home aren’t able to take the dog and so a new adopter is needed before 3rd October or Sharne will be put to sleep. Apparently a local adopter [...]
As we all know the Department of Health is not always famed for its use of accessible language and it’s met expectations with its consultation document “Caring for our future“.This is the engagement document launched by the government to inform its future social care white paper, in which it asked for the sector’s views. However [...]
The Adult Care blog looks behind the policies, practices and personalities involved in the care of older and disabled people for any hidden truths, helpful tips or humour.
It is written by Community Care’s adults’ services beat editor Mithran Samuel.
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