Social care digitisation assessment reveals policy and data gaps

An assessment around both what social care digitisation policy is and how it is being implemented has revealed ‘big gaps’, with the need for...

Long way to go before social care can be considered ‘equal’

Staff from minority ethnic backgrounds are poorly represented in leadership roles and in higher pay bands across social care despite the workforce in England...

HICA Group widens training offer

The HICA Group is offering its in-house training to local employers, charities and individuals at its Hull-based academy. HICA Training Academy is open to organisations...

Inaction on adult social care creating ‘unstable and unsustainable’ market

The Casey commission is ‘doomed to failure’, MPs have warned, if the government does not give enough consideration to the human and financial cost...

Adult social care commission begins work

Baroness Casey of Blackstock has started her work on the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care by speaking to people with experience of the...

Status quo ‘not an option’, Scottish care groups argue

Six membership groups across Scotland have identified ideas on how to move social care reform forward in the wake of revisions to the National...

Centrum Care Homes completes digital transformation across services

Centrum Care Homes has completed a digital transformation project across its five settings in the South West to help deliver safer, smarter and more...

Councils need support to build case for preventative digital care

Councils are missing out on opportunities to prevent ill-health and boost independence and wellbeing because they are struggling to make the investment case for...

Hamberley Care Homes launches dementia strategy

Hamberley Care Homes has launched a dementia strategy to ensure residents with the condition live as independently as possible. Its ‘Bringing Out The Best’ strategy...

Achieve together invests in pay as part of people plan

Achieve together has introduced a base hourly rate of £12.30 per hour for support workers. The uplift, which is 9p more than the national living...