New reports highlight insightful statistics within adult social care sector
Skills for Care has published two reports presenting a detailed overview of the adult social care workforce in England. The reports, ‘State of the adult…
Council’s project to provide mobility equipment in care environments
Councillor Nicolas Barlow, Cabinet Member for adult social care trying out the equipment with Chris Outhwaite, Assistant Team Manager at Dudley Council Dudley Council has…
‘Workforce Intelligence’ shares social care reports, trends, demographics and statistics.
Skills for Care has launched a new, dedicated ‘Workforce Intelligence’ area on its website offering invaluable insights into the state of the adult social…
Sharing services, robotics and more – can technology provide adult social care answers?
By Tony Pilkington, Managing Director, Younifi Adult social care in the UK gets a bad press. It’s chronically underfunded as a service and we’re…
How effective service management has transformed telecare response
Isobel Penman, Reablement Hub Coordinator at South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership (CAH), discusses how Tunstall’s PNC7 Service Manager has streamlined its processes, enabled…
College of Occupational Therapists becomes Royal
It has been confirmed that Her Majesty The Queen has granted permission for the Royal title to be used by the College of Occupational Therapists.…
Care Show 2017 – building on 2016 success
Following a successful 2016 show with an overall visitor growth of 4% from 2015, the Care Show has been busy finding ways to make the…
Councils respond to £2 billion social care funding spending rules
Cllr Linda Thomas, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, has responded to the Government framework published on the 31st March 2017,…
New Social Care Robot Challenge launched for UK Robotics Week 2017
A brand new Social Care Robot Challenge is being launched for the second annual UK Robotics Week 2017, a national week of celebration taking place…
Call for Help to Care ISA
In an interesting move, Essex County Council leader David Finch has called on the Government to create a Help to Care ISA to aid future…