Skills for Care has published a new guide for adult social care providers on how to ensure safe staffing levels in their services. The guide has been written for anyone involved in running regulated adult social care services in England which are subject to Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections, including directors, board members, registered managers, […]

A new Long Term Plan for the NHS has been published. The 10-year plan has been developed in partnership with frontline health and care staff, and with patients and their families. It is designed to address the challenges currently facing the health service, including lack of funding, low staffing, and increasing inequalities and pressures caused by […]

A new ‘quick guide’ has been published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence for registered managers of care homes. The guide, Helping to prevent pressure ulcers, has been written in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to help care home managers take appropriate steps to reduce the risks of […]

A House of Commons Library briefing paper has been published reporting on the progress of the long-anticipated government Green Paper on the future of social care. In the March 2017 Budget, the Conservative government said that it would publish a Green Paper in order to facilitate a public consultation on developing a sustainable means of […]

Schools hold their breath whilst waiting to discover what exactly Ofsted has in store. The inspection service has given itself a tight schedule for the introduction of extensive changes in the framework. Changes that some teacher unions are anxious cannot be delivered on time with sufficient quality. Whenever the new-style Ofsted is introduced, it is […]