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Brain Injury – A New Identity Card

September 25, 2017
Identity cards get a bad press, with their suggestion that ‘Big Brother’ is watching us.  And the last thing that many people with a brain injury want is to be…
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Which Online Recruitment Tools Should You Be Using?

September 25, 2017
From my experience, social care recruiters have leant heavily on Internet Job Boards for finding staff. The more successful have already started to diversify. So, let’s take a look at…
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Great Care and Support for People Living with Dementia

September 25, 2017
When people ask me what Skills for Care do (and for that matter what social care is!) I could give them any number of responses linked to policy, statistics, resources,…
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New Social Care Wales Qualifications

September 25, 2017
It has been announced that there will be a radical shakeup for Health and Social Care and Childcare, resulting in new Social Care Wales Qualifications. A sector review outlined a…
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Monitoring Employee’s Emails

September 21, 2017
Following the recent case of Bărbulescu v Romania, the Grand Chamber of the ECHR held that an Employer was infringing upon their employee’s Article 8 right to privacy by monitoring…
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Struggling to Maintain Individuality

September 18, 2017
As nutrition scientists we love research statistics that allow us to look at relationships between diet and health, and to ascertain whether these relationships may be clinically significant. But what…
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Management of waste in dental practice

September 14, 2017
  All dental team members need to be aware of The Controlled Waste Regulations 2012 which outlines the management of waste arising from dental practices. The requirement for dental practices…
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Are you in control of your gas safety?

September 13, 2017
Introduction As summer draws to a close, nights draw in and the temperature lowers, we turn to our radiators and fires to keep warm. Gas fuel is an efficient way…
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