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Secure Accommodation Network | Secure Children’s Homes
SAN is chaired by Dave Clarke, Registered Manager at the Lincolnshire SCH. The Deputy Chair is Thirza Smith, who is the Registered Manager for Clayfields SCH (Nottinghamshire). Dave and Thirza are supported by a core group of members to develop and lead SAN practices within secure children’s homes (England and Wales). The core group includes:- […]
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Trust announces legacy for hit Channel 4 show | St Monica Trust
The St Monica Trust, whose residents captured the hearts of the nation in the hit TV show, Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, will create a lasting legacy to the ground-breaking social experiment by establishing a nursery at one of its retirement communities. Trust announces legacy for hit Channel 4 show | St Monica […]
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The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) – Consumer Code
ARCO aims to set and maintain high standards for operators of retirement communities in the UK. The ARCO Consumer Code was launched in 2015 to provide a benchmark for good practice within the housing-with-care sector. The Code applies to retirement communities in the UK that have been registered with ARCO by Approved Subscribers to the […]
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Making healthy normal in Oaklands Park
Southern Cross Care (SA&NT) has opened it’s seventh Health and Wellness Centre at Oaklands Park Lodge this week, continuing our quest to “make healthy normal”, as Jo Boylan, Director Operations said at the launch event. Designed to promote active ageing among our residents, the centres support our residential care customers to improve their overall mobility […]
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Chair of the Residential Care Leadership Board – Centre for Public Appointments
The DfE is setting up the Residential Care Leadership Board (RCLB) to drive improvements in the residential care system in England, as recommended in Sir Martin Narey’s independent review of residential care (July 2016). The board will have an initial focus on Sir Martin’s recommendations for commissioning and Staying Close pilots, with scope to extend this remit by […]
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Children’s Homes by Peter Higginbotham
Children’s Homes surveys the wide range of institutions that, over the centuries, were used as a substitute for children’s ‘natural’ homes. This includes not only orphanages but a wide range of other establishments run by particular bodies (charities, religious groups, workhouse authorities, occupational groups, local councils, single individuals etc.) or which served particular purposes (penal […]
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The study is funded by the National Institute For Health Research (NIHR) Health Services Delivery Programme. The OPTIMAL film looks at the different ways in which the NHS works with care homes to understand whether together, they improve the health care that residents receive.
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What’s new
What’s new
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(via Therapeutic approaches to residential child care in Northern Ireland) What is the video about? Children and young people looked after in residential settings have some of the highest levels of need. It is therefore crucial that staff have the right skills and support available to them. This film shows how children’s homes in Northern […]
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Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive hEAlthcare of older people in Care Homes (PEACH) study Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive hEAlthcare of […]
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Qualitative evaluation of museum resources for care home residents with dementia
Neil Chadborn, Elaine Argyle, Jonathan Coope and Louise Thomson A new reminiscence programme for care home residents with dementia consisted of training for staff and a series of museum resource boxes. We evaluated the intervention using Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) of facilitated sessions in five care homes. Here we present qualitative observations of residents and […]
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Demand in the Residential Care Market – a personal perspective
residentialforum: Brendan Johnston, the Retired Chief Executive at Northern Ireland Social Care Council and Residential Forum member asks some questions about the supply and demand for residential care. At the Residential Forum in May 2017, we were looking at how we get the best and most appropriate residential care using the market. Markets are shaped […]
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The role of arts and culture in care homes
In my role as a former principal inspector when looking for best practice in care homes an important consideration of any inspection, was always the range of activities provided for residents. If an inspector when visiting a home is shown to the resident’s lounge and is confronted with an exceedingly loud television with a large […]
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nchacouncil: Experience of aging in America – both growing up and growing old. A video of pre-school children at an older peoples #carehome with some thought provoking #nomorewrinklyhands footage.
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Social care is in a strange and unwelcome place
Richard Banks shares some ideas being considered by the Residential Forum for a neighbourhood approach to designing models of residential and supported living. How did social care get to be in such a difficult place? The quick answer is that successive governments in England have perpetuated a policy vacuum for social care. This is a […]
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What can we learn from social living models that might help us in the UK?
Recent strides to improve the quality of research, learning and practice development in the care home sector has been a focal point of Care England funded by the Department of Health. For example the Teaching Care Home Pilot and in Scotland the focus has been on creating person centered research based care homes. However the […]
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ACHIEVING CLOSURE
ACHIEVING CLOSURE
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Unity through Relationship | goodenoughcaring.com
Unity through Relationship By Maurice Fenton Maurice Fenton entered social care as a volunteer in 1992. over the intervening years he has worked at all levels in residential child care, from trainee to director in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. He returned to education at the age of forty and has remained there ever […]
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Unity Through Relationship | Congruent Care ~ Theory ~ Dialogue ~ Practice
Unity Through Relationship | Congruent Care ~ Theory ~ Dialogue ~ Practice
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