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  • Whatever happened to the registration of domiciliary care workers in England?

    It's something that's seemingly been about to happen for a very long time without ever quite making it to the start line. To recap: In July 2005, then care services minister Liam Byrne said registration in England should be extended to domiciliary and residential care staff to improve user safety...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 09-01-2008

  • Dementia strategy means business

    It's pretty rare for us Community Care journos to praise rather than bury the government in our blogs, but I'm willing to break a habit in the case of the draft dementia strategy published last week . It seemed to exemplify what policymaking should be about: Take a problem (and in this case it's...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • Re: Are unqualified staff dangerous?

    No they are not, what is dangerous is an individual persons unwillingness to learn and move on, we are all unqualified to start with and we are taught by the people who know best the service user and their informal support. By listening and hearing what a person wants we can learn alot. The only reason...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by sonyaw331 on 04-04-2008
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