Social Care

AUGUST 22, 2023

Image created by freepik.com ] Proud and humble I have been recently honoured with the Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal for my contributions to social care and nursing, recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List. My journey in social care began at the age of 13 when I started part-time work at a residential nursing home.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She has no power and no privilege in our society. She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. Sorey grew up in poverty.

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Gateway Foundation

JANUARY 22, 2024

This division develops, monitors, evaluates, and maintains a statewide recovery-focused care system, and federal and state funds help it provide essential services. These funds support programs in the form of four grants, and these federal awards help grant-supported programs provide quality services.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Other legislation has particular relevance to health and social care services. Additionally, the 2009 Lamb Report based on detailed research, underpinned the need to strengthen parental voice and confidence to help improve the quality of partnership working. These principles are examined in more detail in Parts 2 and 3 of this book.

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The Guardian

MARCH 30, 2024

Government accused of undermining the fight against labour abuses after £2m real-terms cut to oversight budget Britain’s labour abuse watchdog has had its funding cut by the Home Office despite a dramatic surge in exploitation in the care sector. last year, official figures show. Continue reading.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In his statement to the House of Commons , Zahawi set out more details on the national review into Arthur’s case and the inspection of Solihull services he had commissioned following the jailing of Arthur’s killers. .” More details on Arthur reviews. ” Inspection to focus on entry to child protection.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The ‘failed’ Care Act 2014 must be properly implemented as part of a radical shift in adult social care from a ‘transactional’ to an ‘enabling’ service, peers have said. Failure to implement Care Act. The report found that the Care Act 2014 articulated these principles.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is currently Director of Nursing at Cygnet Group , an independent health and social care organisation which provides services for young people and adults with mental health needs, acquired brain injuries, eating disorders, autism and learning disabilities within the UK. I joined Cygnet Health Care in 2018.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

link] — Warren Belcher (@ermate) October 5, 2023 Behind anything that is good in social care over the last 15yrs at a national level, if you look you will find @LynRomeo_CSW was very likely behind it, working quietly & diligently to ensure rights for ppl & support for SWs. Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 19, 2023

End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs Post-Brexit restrictions on the free movement of workers from the EU have contributed to modern slavery becoming “a feature” of the care sector in England the Care Quality Commission has told MPs.

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2024

Campaigners against labour exploitation urge government to conduct more stringent checks before awarding powers Hundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal. (..)

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The Guardian

JANUARY 17, 2023

Gordon Sanders owns Runwood Homes, the UK’s sixth largest for-profit care home group, which charges residents more than £1,000 a week, with bills often covered by the taxpayer. At Highview Lodge in Hemel Hempstead, some residents said staff “could be a bit rough when supporting them with care needs or moving”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Staff at Iceni Care Home say vulnerable residents were treated as if they were ‘on a farm’ to reduce workload Care workers at a private care home forced dementia sufferers out of bed as early as 5am and woke them by blasting loud radio music to save money, whistleblowers have alleged.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Exclusive: Family of Ann King, 88, hid camera in room at Reigate Grange in Surrey amid concerns about her welfare • ‘Abuse, no other word for it’: nurse analyses footage An 88-year-old woman with dementia was physically and mentally abused at a luxury care home charging residents close to £100,000 a year, the Guardian can reveal.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Instead, a family’s hidden camera recorded harrowing abuse Installing a hidden spy camera by their mother’s care home bed was not something Ann King’s children ever imagined would be necessary. The home marketed itself as being like “a luxury cruise ship”, with a cinema, spa and beauty salon, and a promise of “fantastic care”.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Sector hit by staff and funding shortages warns against giving residents legal right to see guests Care homes face being “vilified” if they are forced to allow in visitors under new plans being considered by the government, ministers have been told. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JULY 23, 2022

Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial success The UK’s biggest care home chains saw their profit margins jump by 18% on average during the pandemic, new research shows, while the highest paid director’s salary surged to £2.3m. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 14, 2022

After the Guardian published secret camera footage showing Ann King being abused at the £2,000-a-week Reigate Grange care home, the Care Quality Commission said on Friday it was “reviewing this evidence and working with other stakeholders to determine whether regulatory or criminal enforcement action is required”.

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The Guardian

MARCH 27, 2023

We can’t look away any longer Leandra Ashton is co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog When I was 13, I learned about workhouses. It’s true, there are excellent care homes and there are care workers who genuinely care. Surely, they say, it’s not that bad. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

APRIL 22, 2023

Nearly 6,000 people were given notices to quit last year, and many of these came after issues were raised Care home residents urgently need more security to prevent “revenge evictions”, campaigners say, after research revealed that at least one in 70 care residents in England received a notice to quit last year.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Owners hits by staff shortages, mandatory jab policy and Covid cases, finds Care Quality Commission More than 1,600 care home beds have been lost in just six months, as worsening staff shortages and the financial strain after two years of the Covid pandemic have caused a net loss of 134 homes in England.

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The Guardian

MARCH 23, 2023

Exclusive: Investigation finds huge sums of taxpayers’ money spent on poor quality private homes Taxpayers have spent close to half a billion pounds buying beds in the worst care homes in England in the last four years, driving profits for private investors while residents suffer unsafe treatment, a Guardian investigation has revealed.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When Ann King, 88, faced worsening dementia, her children considered a dozen care homes and carefully picked Reigate Grange, part of the Signature Senior Lifestyle chain, with annual fees close to £100,000.Within

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The Guardian

MARCH 23, 2023

As it does for about a quarter of a million others in England, the state paid for Lilian Williams’ care. She lived in the privately owned Forest Edge care home in Southampton. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Relatives and support groups claim that the sector has been ‘left behind’ as the rest of society opens up Dozens of care homes are still denying people access to their elderly relatives 20 months after the pandemic began, according to support groups.

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The Guardian

MARCH 25, 2023

The leading earner from public funds is HC-One, a chain of 285 care homes majority-owned by a US private equity company, according to analysis of council spending records. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

MARCH 8, 2023

Bernard Chatting’s family relied on ‘good’ rating from CQC for Dorset care home and allege regulator’s delay in exposing risks led to his death England’s care regulator has been accused of failing to keep private nursing home residents safe after a family alleged a delay in exposing serious risks led to a loved one’s painful premature death.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Until social care is properly funded and its workers adequately paid, neglect will continue to occur Families have been left feeling distressed and anxious after witnessing the video of 88-year-old Ann King being tormented and abused by those meant to be caring for her. As a result, conditions in care homes have become untenable.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 21, 2022

A resident at Cedar Lodge care home in Bury St Edmunds – where at times 23 people were left unsupervised – physically and verbally assaulted another. At Osbourne Court care home in Herefordshire, staff had so little time, they used wet wipes to clean one resident and only showered and washed their hair once a week.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 18, 2022

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one in five homes rated ‘inadequate’ or ‘require improvement’ by CQC Hundreds of care homes in England are providing substandard care to dementia patients, analysis by the Guardian has found.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Care regulator for England says Covid has exposed inequalities but strategies in response not yet well established Tackling inequalities was “often not a main priority” for local health and care systems over the past year, the care regulator for England has said.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, we also know that too many pupils still fall between the cracks and are denied this opportunity for lots of different reasons, some to do with the variability in the quality of education they receive in their schools and others to do with ingrained structural inequalities perpetuated by society at large.

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Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2021

Talk given to Applied Section Meeting of the British Psychoanalytical Society - 9th December 2020 (Pulling together various previously blogged thoughts regarding narcissism and narcissistic abuse.) What shall be taken as disrespectful, and what as relaxedly casual?

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Such peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, who receives advice on who to put forward from a non-political Appointments Commission (Rabb, 2021). The overlap: an example Mikel is 9 and following the suicide of his father his mother became clinically depressed and unable to care for him.

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