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Skills for Care has published its refreshed Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF), modelling what great leadership looks like in adult social care.
The updated framework sets out the behaviours, skills, and mindsets that define great leadership across adult social care. Aligned with the Care Workforce Pathway, it shows what effective leadership looks like at every level, not just management....

In a speech today (5 March) at the Nuffield Trust Summit, Baroness Casey said social care has never had its own “creation moment” and called for a national reckoning equivalent to Beveridge’s reforms in 1948.
In her speech, Baroness Casey set out how there is currently a reliance on cobbled together underfunded services relying on low-paid care workers, a lack of ownership and accountability, and a deep divide between health and social care which leaves families...

A quarter of a century of dedicated community care has been celebrated at a Winchester care home.
Residents and team members at Colten Care’s Abbotts Barton staged a lively afternoon party to mark the Worthy Road home’s 25th anniversary.
Among the guests were families, friends of residents, community contacts with former members of staff....

Care England, the largest and most diverse representative of adult social care providers in England, has welcomed new research from The King’s Fund on public attitudes towards social care. It provides timely insight into the impact of public perception...