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Navigating Zero-Hours Contracts: Best Practice and the Employment Rights Bill
April 22, 2025
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill aims to introduce 28 significant reforms, one of the key changes being to zero-hours contracts. If you employ zero-hours workers, then this is essential reading!
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Getting rid of the ‘F’ word in dementia care
April 16, 2025
Why language matters in dementia care We need to talk about that four-letter ‘F’ word that is heard so often in dementia care settings. It is a word that shocks…
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Food for Thought: The Dining Experience and Dementia
April 16, 2025
This month I visited a care home to observe residents over lunchtime to see if I could offer any advice to improve the overall dining experience and encourage those…
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Gardening: A Purposeful Activity for People with Dementia
April 15, 2025
Gardening and Dementia: An Overlooked Opportunity There’s been so much in the news recently about the benefits of purposeful activity for people with dementia. The power of music has been…
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The Care Social-Episode Ten: Getting Training Right: Matching Skills to Needs
April 15, 2025
Hosted by Barry Price, Content Operations and Delivery Manager at QCS, this episode of The Care Social tackles one of the biggest challenges in adult social care – making training truly meaningful.
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Are you aware of these important updates in protection from harm and disclosure procedures?
April 11, 2025
Recently, the Care Inspectorate has strengthened its protection from harm procedures, and Disclosure Scotland is set to implement the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Here’s what you need to know.
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The Care Social – Episode Nine: Why I’ll Never Stop Fighting for Social Care – with Katrina Hall
April 8, 2025
In one of our most passionate and thought-provoking episodes yet, Barry Price speaks to Katrina Hall, founder of Bay Care Group and a leading voice in the Providers Unite movement.
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Neonatal Care Leave and Pay to Come into Force on 6 April 2025
April 8, 2025
Under changes introduced on 6 April 2025, parents of babies receiving neonatal care will now be entitled to a dedicated statutory right to take leave to be with their baby from day one of their employment.
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