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In 2006, Heather Wright began her career at Lifeways as a Support Worker, helping adults with autism and learning disabilities at a newly opened residential care home in North Wales.
Nineteen years on, she has progressed through the organisation – from Team Leader and Registered Manager to Health & Safety Manager – earning her place as Group Head of Health & Safety in 2025....

Skills for Care, the national charity focused on building a stronger workforce for social care, has published its latest Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Annual National Report.
The latest annual report reveals persistent racial inequalities across England’s adult and children’s social care workforce and provides the most comprehensive national evidence to date on this topic....

Home Instead UK is delighted to announce a partnership with Dementia UK, becoming the first home care company in the sector to appoint a strategic-level Admiral Nurse.
Dr Jane Pritchard has been appointed as the home care company’s dementia specialist nurse and will enhance Home Instead’s award-winning dementia training for care professionals and communities across the country....

Now in its third year, Barchester’s Cook Off in aid of its Charitable Foundation is a much-anticipated diary fixture. Building on the success of last year’s Regional Directors’ Cook Off, this year it was the turn of six of Barchester’s Managing Directors...