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• Bournemouth care home emphasises the importance of activities for residents’ wellbeing

  13-12-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Great Oaks, a specialist residential, nursing and dementia care home in Bournemouth hosted a festive family-friendly open day as part of its on-going strategy to strengthen its links with the local community. 
  Great Oaks’ care programme consists of daily activities and events which are carefully planned by the dedicated activities manager, who works hard to ensure that a variety of engaging activities are organised for residents to be involved with. Significant importance is put on th
  
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• Christmas cheer is in the air at Watling Court Extra Care Housing Scheme

  13-12-2017 12:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas cheer was in the air at Watling Court Extra Care Housing Scheme last week, when tenants got together to put their Christmas decorations up.
   
  Tenants of the Ifield Way housing scheme gathered together in the dining room to enjoy their annual festive activity of putting up the scheme’s many trees and decorations.
   
  Whilst enjoying a cup of tea and tucking into a mince pie and some Christmas treats, the tenants all got stuck in and worked together to turn the scheme into
  
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• It’s normal to grieve: how social care professionals cope with death

  13-12-2017 12:14 via theguardian.com
  Staff can feel mixed emotions, including guilt, when they are confronted by death in the course of their work. It is vital they get the support they need
  Social worker Jane* will never forget the day a mother she was supporting killed her baby.“I wasn’t responsible for the child but I was working with the mother,” she explains. “We had got to the point where we were just about to take the child into care, but the mother said, ‘If I can’t have her then nobody c
  
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• Barnsley care home bridges the generation gap

  13-12-2017 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE GENERATION gap has been bridged in Barnsley as young and old become pen pals.
   
  More than 20 letters have been flying back and forth between the residents of Deangate Care Home and pupils of Darton Primary School.
   
  The Year 3 pupils have been introducing themselves, including details of their favourite foods, colours and pets in their handwritten letters and asking questions.
   
  The care home residents were delighted to receive the post and have been writing back, responding w
  
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• Children’s social care is improving – but there is more to do | Eleanor Schooling

  13-12-2017 11:01 via theguardian.com
  More than a third of services are good or outstanding, but the standard of care in young offender institutions and secure training centres is a cause for concern
  Too often, news about the state of children’s social care makes for worrying reading. The sector is beset by many challenges, and usually only makes the headlines when things go wrong.
  Ofsted has been clear about what needs to improve in local authorities’ children’s services departments and, as we set out in our annua
  
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• Healthcare Homes celebrate good result for Bristol care home

  13-12-2017 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A nursing care home in Bristol that supports individuals who live with dementia has achieved an across-the-board rating of ‘Good’, following its latest inspection by the healthcare regulator, CQC.
  Avon Lodge Care Home in Kingswood caters for elder residents, those with dementia needs, and for young adults.
  Part of the Healthcare Homes Group, the home was inspected in a formal unannounced visit in the late summer, and was notified this week that it had achieved its ‘Good’
  
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• How CPD has changed over the years, but in a good way- Skills for Care blog

  13-12-2017 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The end of October marked my three year anniversary at Skills for Care. As you might expect, Skills for Care is pretty proactive in supporting continued professional development (CPD), so it’s been a very busy three years, but I’ve been fortunate to work for other organisations keen to support staff development.
  Let’s jump back a few years to when I worked in supported housing. Although it wasn’t that long ago, the world of learning and development seemed very different t
  
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• The state of social care shames us all

  13-12-2017 08:30 via theguardian.com
  Care homes are unfairly relying on better-off residents to subsidise others’ care. The government urgently needs to increase funding to the sectorWhy are people on the left so exercised about how we pay for social care? After all, better-off care home residents who pay their own way are each quietly subsidising to the tune of £12,000 a year those with fewer assets who are funded by councils that negotiate lower fees. What could be more socialist?The truth is that this is an unofficia
  
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• Chorley concert hits the high notes with dementia residents

  13-12-2017 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at an award-winning specialist care home in Chorley enjoyed a festive musical treat performed as part of a wider wellbeing programme.
   
  The Lodge, a specialist dementia care home within Buckshaw Retirement Village, played host to the Christmas music concert, which was performed by Music in Hospitals & Care (MiHC). The organisation specialises in performing to people with all kinds of healthcare needs, including those with dementia and disabilities. 
  The charity, which has
  
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• ADASS points out the need to plug social care funding gap

  13-12-2017 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Responding to analysis by the Alzheimer’s Society which shows 1,400 people with dementia will be stranded in hospital over Christmas, Margaret Willcox, President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), said:
  “This welcome report is further evidence of the urgent need to plug the estimated £2.5 billion funding gap facing adult social care up to 2020, which is impacting now on thousands of people in need of reliable, personal care, including those with d
  
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• Independent Care Group comments on shocking Alzheimer’s Society investigation

  13-12-2017 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The plight of 1,400 people with dementia who are stranded in hospital this Christmas because of a lack of available social care to look after them was today condemned as a disgrace.The Independent Care Group said the investigation by Alzheimer’s Society had uncovered a situation which shamed the country and was totally unacceptable in 2017.The Society today reports that at least 1,400 people look set to spend Christmas in hospital because the social care system is so starved of funding it
  
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• Horrifying figures as 1,400 people with dementia expected to be stranded in hospital over Christmas

  13-12-2017 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  1 in 10 nurses surveyed have seen people with dementia waiting over a year in hospital
  Alzheimer’s Society investigation reveals horrifying figures as 1,400 people with dementia expected to be stranded in hospital over Christmas
  At least 1,400 vulnerable people will spend Christmas on a hospital ward – well enough to go home, but trapped because of a social care system starved of funding – an Alzheimer’s Society investigation has revealed. 
  Alzheimer’s Soc
  
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• ITV film reveals serious failings at UK children’s homes

  13-12-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Undercover reporters found evidence of understaffing, inadequate training and closure of homes before Ofsted inspection among other issuesSome of the most vulnerable “looked after” children in the country are being failed by privately owned residential homes that are contracted to care for them, it has been claimed. Undercover reporters secured jobs as care staff at residential homes in Shropshire run by the two largest commercial providers of care for looked-after children: Cambian
  
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