Welsh Social Care - CIW

In the first of a two part series, this week I am looking at how a contemporary recovery model can apply to serious mental illness, within a Welsh service context.…

So it’s the time of year when Wales has some breathtakingly beautiful vistas, whether they are rugged cliff and beach landscapes, woodlands, meadows or mountains, we’ve got them all here…

Last week I wrote about the Welsh care environment and the benefits of clinical supervision for all Welsh staff directly involved in delivering care and support. This week I am…

In this article I am beginning to consider the benefits of clinical supervision for all Welsh staff directly involved in delivering care and support. It is a theme I will…

Picture this; an action drama featuring heavy doses of extreme violence, guns, drugs, sleeping rough, storming the home of a racist crime godfather, threats to kill and prison (…lots of…

Public policy in the UK has struggled to consistently promote evidence based ‘harm reduction’ approaches to managing drug use and its effects. As a result, the criminalising drug users often…

In our recent article we talked about direct support staff being at the centre of successfully delivering the outcomes of the Social Service and Wellbeing Act 2014. This raised a…

The theme of our most recent article and blogs has been the importance of including direct care and support staff in our strategies for meeting the expectations of the Social…