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The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has today published its 2025 Impact Report, offering a detailed account of the financial, professional and mental wellbeing challenges facing paid adult social care workers across the UK, and the breadth of support the...

National Care Group’s Springvale Resource Centre, in Greater Manchester, is celebrating the success of one of its colleagues, who has been named ‘Support Worker of the Year’ at an annual awards.
Ade joined the specialist neurological service with no prior experience in social care. In less than two years, his confidence flourished, and he felt empowered to take on more responsibilities, resulting in a promotion to a senior role and a national...

A World War Two RAF veteran has celebrated his 101st birthday at a Dorset care home.
Arthur ‘Jim’ Freer spent the day at Colten Care’s Newstone House in Sturminster Newton with wife Valerie and close friends from his village of Child Okeford.
The party, which featured musicians Simply Piano, was joined by fellow Newstone House residents and Tony Dee, Chair of the RAF Association’s Sturminster Newton branch....

An ex-violin teacher met up with a ‘star pupil’ from around 45 years ago at a recital in her care home arranged through the Winchester Chamber Music Trust.
Auriol Whitworth, who lives at Colten Care’s Abbotts Barton, was full of ‘excitement and anticipation’ ahead of the visit and said later she ‘loved the whole afternoon’....