Welsh Social Care - CIW

“Hello, I’m Anna I have a severe form autism, I’m 20, I’m too old for schooling and  unlikely to be able to go to work, I feel vulnerable and the…

In the first blog on this topic we looked at the overriding importance of the relationship between direct support staff and service-users, and ways in which this serves as a…

Since the disestablishment of our 13 counties in the mid 70s, Local Authority Boundaries have shifted within Wales several times. Our current 22 Local Authorities have been comparatively stable and…

So in the draw for the European Football Championships for 2016 Wales and England have been drawn to play each other. Coming so quickly after the epic battle at the…

If we have reached a supervisory level within Health and Social Care, we will have worked with a number of highly necessary experts from different specialist fields. We also supervise…

On the Radio 4 Today programme this week, they reported that for the first time the majority of people in the UK would describe themselves as something other than Christian.…

Putting the user at the centre of services is a long-standing policy direction. Making this a reality is more difficult to do than to say. In the new Social Services…

The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act makes a strong pitch for Person-centred care and support. It is sometimes difficult to pin-down what that means. So what exactly is it…