• All Encore Care Homes staff to become Dementia Friends

    Every member of the team at Encore Care Homes will undergo training to become a Dementia Friend.New and existing members of the team working across all departments within Encore Care Homes, including the care team, catering, housekeeping and administration, will go through the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme, which aims to transform the way that people think, act and talk about the condition.Alzheimer’s Society created the Dementia Friends initiative to help ra
  • It’s smiles all round for Perth care home as lockdown eases and hospitality opens up

    It was smiles all round at a Perth care home as it celebrated lockdown easing with a custom fine dining experience courtesy of a local restaurant.Pizza Express in Perth visited Balhousie North Inch and North Grove, located at the city’s North Inch park, to mark hospitality re-opening with a donation of 30 pizzas for residents and staff. Restaurant Manager Pauline Hutton and Senior Chef Piotr Petrecki also gifted vouchers to their restaurant.Care staff Peter Hargreaves and Simon Wurr turned
  • Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children | Paul Gray for IndigenousX

    Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children | Paul Gray for IndigenousX
    Without structural change, child protection systems will continue to fail Indigenous families
    As government systems continue their long history of intervening in the lives of First Nations children and families, it’s time for us to acknowledge the truth: in too many circumstances the children and families “helped” through these systems remain permanently harmed by them.This month marks 24 years since Bringing Them Home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of
  • Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children | Paul Gray

    Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children | Paul Gray
    Without structural change, child protection systems will continue to fail Indigenous families
    As government systems continue their long history of intervening in the lives of First Nations children and families, it’s time for us to acknowledge the truth: that in too many circumstances, the children and families “helped” through these systems remain permanently harmed by them.This month marks 24 years since Bringing Them Home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separati
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