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Skills for Care has launched a new collection of allyship resources designed to help leaders and managers strengthen inclusion, fairness and belonging across adult social care.
The resources provide practical guidance to support organisations in embedding allyship into everyday practice, enabling staff to recognise and challenge bias, lead open and respectful conversations, and respond appropriately to discrimination or exclusion...

Residents and staff wore their jeans and made fabric gifts by hand as care homes marked Denim for Dementia Day with a host of activities.
The national Alzheimer’s Society campaign, designed to raise money and awareness to help those living with dementia, was supported across Colten Care’s homes in the south....

Children and other community visitors helped care home residents mark the World Book Day annual celebration of reading.
Literary characters leapt off the page at events and activities held by Colten Care homes in Dorset and Hampshire.
Taking an Alice in Wonderland theme, residents at Canford Chase in Poole were joined by members of Poole Disabled Club for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, complete with costumes....

Home care provider Walfinch is well over half way to its goal of raising £10,000 in donations to the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS).   It had raised £70,17 by 9 March, and its fundraising is not over yet.
Osteoporosis causes bones to lose strength and break more easily.  Half of women and 20% of men over 50 will break a bone because of it. It accounts for 500,000 broken bones annually in the UK, and 3.5 million people are affected by it....