Adult Social Care

It appears that a change is coming for prospective providers of learning disability services, as CQC release plans that see a requirement for considerably more detail to support the application…

This month I welcomed the Cavendish report which reviewed the role of Support Workers in social care. The independent report, written by journalist Camilla Cavendish, comments “the phrase ‘basic care’…

A colleague was proudly boasting that her service had a really low level of accidents and incidents since she dispatched a member of staff who had been involved in a…

‘Postcode lottery’ for top-up fees in social care? A survey published last week by the charity Independent Age has exposed that there is much confusion among councils over top-up fees…

Despite working in Homecare for a number of years, I still lack the answer to ‘What makes a Good Care Co-ordinator?’  I truly have no idea, and yet Care Coordinators…

I recently attended a seminar on the management of errors in medicines administration and got into an interesting debate with a fellow professional about how such errors are managed. Neither…

t’s always nerve-wracking when you are expecting any independent inspection of your service. I recall a time when the CQC would give you notice of a visit which would ensure…

If you have worked for some time in supporting adults with learning disability, then there is a fair chance that you have encountered behaviour that has challenged you and the…