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Statutory Sick Pay and Coronavirus – What does it mean?
March 13, 2020
Following on from the Chancellor’s Budget announcements on 11th March 2020, it has been decided that the government will provide support to small businesses by refunding eligible statutory sick pay…
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Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights
March 13, 2020
The phony war is over. After the weeks of ‘what should we do if this disease gets close to home?’, suddenly there are more and more care homes reporting…
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Changes to National Minimum Wage – DBEIS
March 2, 2020
Changes to National Minimum Wage following the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Consultation The DBEIS recently concluded its consultation into changes and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage…
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Money Matters
February 6, 2020
One of the areas of focus for 2020 inspections with the Care Inspectorate is Personal finances and how service user access these and how staff ensure that service users…
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Six Principles of GDPR
February 3, 2020
In the last GDPR guidance note we discussed the key terms set out in GDPR. In this guidance note we’ll look at the 6 key principles of GDPR that apply…
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Risk Assessment and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
January 31, 2020
Care providers sometimes consult me when they’ve had a critical inspection – and often the decision-making around the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) has been identified as poor. Risk assessments are…
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Getting Ready for the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
January 31, 2020
We updated you in the summer on how things were getting on with plans to put the LPS into practice. At the moment, it’s slowed down a bit due to…
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Tackling mental health stigma in the workplace
January 31, 2020
Mental health is a hot topic for all and is seeing heavy coverage in all aspects of the media. Many employers will no doubt be looking at ways to promote…
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