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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....

Mencap Myth Buster and Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie Goldstein joined HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh for a special afternoon tea at St James’s Palace with her dance partner Vito Coppola. The event celebrated Ellie’s trail blazing success as the first...

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...