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• In Britain’s landscape of cuts, it’s our children who are lost | Deborah Orr

  13-10-2017 19:56 via theguardian.com
  Austerity has starved their families of help. There are now 72,000 children are in care, and we don’t know what to doThe number of children being taken into care in England has risen every year since the financial crash of 2008. The figure now stands at 72,000. As failures of progress go, I can’t think of anything else that’s quite so singularly bleak as this steady, inexorable rise in childhood misery, pain and trauma. Related: Austerity policy blamed for record numbers o
  
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• Frontline social workers reluctant to move into management, leader warns

  13-10-2017 14:11 via theguardian.com
  The profession is losing too many staff early in their career, says British Association of Social Workers chief executive Too few social workers feel they can step up to be future managers in the sector, one of the profession’s most senior leaders has warned.
  Huge amounts of talent are being lost because many frontline staff do not feel they can have an impact at a higher level, said Ruth Allen, chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Related: Reduced workloads
  
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• Care England welcomes NHS England’s offer of free flu jabs for care staff

  13-10-2017 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  NHS England, Public Health England, the Department of Health and NHS Improvement have today unveiled measures to boost the uptake of flu vaccinations along with package of new contingency actions to respond to pressures on frontline services this winter.Intensified preparations include:Providing free flu vaccines for hundreds of thousands of care home staff at a cost of up to £10m as well as increasing the number of jabs for young children in schools and vulnerable people
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• Care staff recognised for outstanding performance and dedication at the Meallmore Staff Awards

  13-10-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A group of top carers have been recognised for their outstanding performance and dedication at the Meallmore Staff Awards, which took place last week.Meallmore Ltd opened the doors of its first nursing home for the elderly in 1987, marking this year as their 30th anniversary and a special occasion for the company, the 2017 awards and the staff.  
  Members of staff from Meallmore’s 23 care homes across Scotland came together at Perth Race Course to celebrate a successful year
  
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• Many disciplines, one goal: a new way to care for children and families

  13-10-2017 12:41 via theguardian.com
  When working collaboratively, social care workers can draw on a broader set of skills to get the best result for childrenA new way of working is transforming the lives of “looked-after” children and their families in Hertfordshire and saving millions of pounds at the same time. Social worker caseloads have shrunk, the time children spend in the care system has dropped by 50% and the number of new child protection plans has been cut by more than half.But the statistics tell only half
  
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• Poole care home welcomes youngsters in exciting new project

  13-10-2017 11:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Ashley Court care home in Poole are benefitting from an exciting new project that brings generations together in a partnership with a local childcare group.The home has teamed up with Hedgehogs Childcare Ltd, also based in Poole, and welcomes their group of young children into the home every week.
   
  Hedgehogs practitioner Richard Potts visited the home in June this year to see if they would be interested in having the children come to visit. Staff at the home were keen to explo
  
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• First CQC local system review published in Halton in Cheshire

  13-10-2017 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Care Quality Commission has published its findings following a local system review of Halton in Cheshire.This report is the first of 20 targeted reviews of local authority areas looking specifically at how people move through the health and social care system – with a focus on how services work together. 
  The reviews look at how hospitals, community health services, GP practices, care homes and homecare agencies work together to provide seamless care for older  people living
  
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• Elysium appoints new Clinical Director of Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation Services

  13-10-2017 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  ELYSIUM Healthcare has appointed Professor Nick Alderman as its new Clinical Director of Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation Services. 
  Prof Alderman is regarded internationally as one of the foremost experts in neurobehavioural rehabilitation. 
  Formerly with Priory Healthcare, Prof Alderman will now head up Elysium’s rapidly growing neurological services division which has operations across the UK.
   
  Prof Alderman said he was delighted to be joining the Elysium Healthcare team.
  
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• Talking to vulnerable children on their terms helps to build trust

  13-10-2017 09:22 via theguardian.com
  A case-by-case approach trumps any ‘tools’ when it comes to social workers building a meaningful relationship with childrenPolly Cowan has been verbally abused and intimidated with knives. Once, a desperate mother threatened to kill her if she tried to take her child away.“I didn’t really believe her,” says Cowan, a social worker in Edinburgh. “She was a new mum, in a desperate situation; and it is not the case that we want to remove children from their famili
  
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• Drag queen performs pop classics for Chester Le Street residents

  13-10-2017 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  ELDERLY care home residents enjoyed entertainment of an unusual sort when they attended a drag act in Chester Le Street.Residents from Pelton Grange Care Home, on Front Street, took a stroll to the nearby community centre to watch the show.
   
  The drag artist and cabaret entertainer, Miss Dixie Swallows, covered songs by Tina Turner and Cilla Black, among other classic pop songs.
   
  Resident Norma White said: “I’m so pleased I went. I laughed so much.”
   
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• Hadrian Healthcare Group win best UK Luxury Care Home 2018

  13-10-2017 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hadrian Healthcare Group’s Wetherby Manor care home was named UK Luxury Care Home 2018 at the Knight Frank Healthcare Property Dinner on Thursday 5 October.
  The dinner was held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London in aid of the Matt Hampson Foundation, and was attended by over 400 senior healthcare industry figures with special guest Frankie Dettori, champion jockey.  
  Wetherby Manor won the award against very stiff competition from all the care homes listed in the 2018 edition
  
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• What I wish I could tell my boss: 'I felt unsafe about returning to work'

  13-10-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The care worker: by not supporting me, you are letting vulnerable residents downYou interviewed me and offered me the job on the spot. You explained that the role was working nights in your dementia care home – with the plan to shadow other carers for the first week so I could get used to the role.But on my third shift I was thrown in the deep end. You told me it would just be me and two agency carers on shift for the night.Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Ticking time bomb’ as homelessness rises in the over sixties

  13-10-2017 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The nation is facing a “ticking time bomb” in the number of homeless older people after latest figures showed an alarming rise of 130 per cent since its lowest point eight years ago, councils warn today.The Local Government Association says that older homelessness is a growing hidden phenomenon that needs greater understanding. 
  Latest figures show that between April and June this year, councils accepted 620 people aged over 60 as homeless – at a rate of nearly 10 a day. T
  
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• Hospice care Outstanding across England according to CQC report

  13-10-2017 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hospice care across England has the highest percentage of services rated ‘Outstanding’, according to a new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).The State of Hospice Services in England, 2014 to 2017 published during Hospice Care Week and ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day tomorrow (Saturday 14 October) has found that 25% of hospices are rated as Outstanding (51 services), with a further 70% (142 services) being rated as Good. This is in comparison to around 6% of
  
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• Dementia set to be the 21st century’s biggest killer

  13-10-2017 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 25.5 million people around the world are dying each year with serious physical and psychological suffering caused by disease, injury or illness, according to a major new report published in The Lancet today.The Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief has provided the first global estimates of serious, health-related suffering and the subsequent need for palliative care and pain relief. The report authors devised a novel approach to measure health
  
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