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Ready for your close up?
October 16, 2013
I heard on the radio this morning that the CQC’s new Chief is considering whether secret CCTV filming of care settings would increase early detection of poor practice. This followed…
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Precious Time
October 9, 2013
I’m annoyed. These days it takes a lot for a news story to make me cross, but the revelation today that over 75% of care visits carried out by some…
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Get a Job?
October 3, 2013
This week’s Conservative Party Conference focused some attention on ways to reduce the number of young people under 25 who were seen to be opting for a life on benefits.…
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Make Yourself at Home
August 29, 2013
What do you make of this statement? ‘Environments that offer minimal private space and more public space result in competition for control and supremacy. In staffed supported living environments this…
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Families Valued
August 21, 2013
This week (19th -25th August) is Learning Disability Week promoted by Mencap, raising awareness of the lives, experiences and successes of people all over the country with a learning disability.…
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Inclusion – Political Voices
August 15, 2013
This month, Ángela Covadonga Bachiller took up her new post as a town councillor in the Spanish city of Valladolid. She states in a press release that she wants to…
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Lessons learned? – CQC raises the compliance bar for prospective learning disability service providers.
August 7, 2013
It appears that a change is coming for prospective providers of learning disability services, as CQC release plans that see a requirement for considerably more detail to support the application…
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Avoiding the Blame Game
August 1, 2013
A colleague was proudly boasting that her service had a really low level of accidents and incidents since she dispatched a member of staff who had been involved in a…
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