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Nutrition and Hydration Week 2017: 13th – 19th March
March 10, 2017
It’s Nutrition and Hydration week again! The week aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally. In the week, many…
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The Apprenticeship Levy
March 9, 2017
In May 2014 the Government produced a BIS Report on Employer Investment in Apprenticeships in the Health Sector and reported that there were 52,000 apprentices commencing work based training…
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What you need to know about RIDDOR!
March 9, 2017
Introduction As a social care provider part of your role as a manager will be to report accidents, incidents and near-misses. You may use a paper-based system or an online…
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Growing Pains
March 9, 2017
My daughter comes to me often. A pain in her side, around her knees. Every bone imaginable has some kind of pain at some point! I have a standard answer…
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An extra £2 billion for Social Care – what does it mean?
March 9, 2017
You will have no doubt all seen the fantastic news in yesterday’s budget. I could not have imagined that the huge injection of money into our sector would be…
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The ageing dental population
March 8, 2017
We are now at a stage where people over the age of sixty outnumber those under sixteen. The numbers of eighty-five-year-olds are predicted to double in the next ten…
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Why are People with Learning Disabilities Still Under Lock and Key?
March 8, 2017
We were very upset when we watched the Channel 4 Dispatches programme called Under Lock and Key. It showed people with learning disabilities and autism who had been locked away…
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Working with personal outcomes
March 8, 2017
I have written before about the importance of personal outcomes in providing personal support and care. I think it is useful to look at detailed findings of what works best…
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