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Innovation: From the Printing Press to Adult Social Care
Ewan King Director of Business Development and Delivery (SCIE)In 1440 Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press improved on existing machines and, 60 years later, 1,000 Gutenberg presses were operating in...
‘Significant’ New Research on LGBTQI+ Disabled People and Self-Directed Social Care Support
David Abbott SCIEWe first described our project on LGBTQI+ Disabled People: ‘Hardly anything is known about issues involving personal assistants and support...
Getting Safeguarding Right
Hugh Constant SCIE - Practice Development ManagerEveryone wants to get safeguarding right. It’s vital to an organisation’s reputation, of course, but much more importantly it gets...
Art in Care Homes – Inspiring Residents and Staff to Be Creative
Pamela Holmes Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)The arts can make a powerful difference to someone’s social and health care. The recent All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts,...
That’s entertainment: how technology can support people with dementia to lead more fulfilling lives
Ewan King Director of Business Development and Delivery (SCIE)Anyone who’s been on YouTube can support someone with dementia. That’s perhaps a sweeping statement and it’s potentially tricky given...
Improving lives by using the skills and assets that exist in care homes
Ewan King Director of Business Development and Delivery (SCIE)This week sees National Care Home Open Day run for the fifth time. It’s an annual day when people are...
The social care workforce: how to improve readiness, recruitment and progression
Leigh Johnston Head of Analytical Support & Senior Research Analyst Improvement (SCIE)The social care workforce is predicted to grow enormously over the coming years, by up to half a million by...
Co-production doesn’t have to be a tumbleweed experience
Pete Fleischmann Head of co-production at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Last year my colleague had an awkward moment at a conference. The event, for managers of care providers large and...
A Sense of Humour – Training for Deafblind Assessors
Steve Palmer Communications Manager at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Last month I was in a training session where everyone was laughing,but the content was deadly serious. Under the Care...
“It’s been wonderful, how do they manage to do it all?”
David Cundy Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Watching a video SCIE produced as part of research for HC-One, I was struck by this comment from Doreen, “It’s...
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