11,171 certificates of sponsorship were used for health and social care workers in the UK during the first quarter of this year. Each certificate equates to a migrant worker. At the start of 2018, there were 3,370.
Read more...Residents are a care organisation are keeping in touch with nature thanks to a dazzling dementia-friendly garden.
The vast array of thousands of varieties of flowers and plants at Pendine Park
Read more...Staff and residents from Burnside Care Home in Laurencekirk have hosted their very own sports day event to stay fit and active.
The day was organised by Activities Coordinators Ellen Francis and Shona Reid together with Maintenance Manager
Read more...Cunningham House, a dementia-friendly residential care home in Epping, has been announced as the winner of the Care Home Team Award at the South East Regional Great British Care Awards (GBCA) 2020.
Read more...Residents of the state-of-the-art Belong care village in Newcastle-under-Lyme have reflected on the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and created a record of their experiences for future generations
Read more...Runwood Homes teams, across 73 care homes in England and N.I, have been gifted, by Directors, a token of thanks for a second time since the beginning of the pandemic, for their continued hard work
Read more...A resident at a care home in Croydon has reached the age of 107.
Annie Reader, who lives at Wilhelmina House care home in Park Hill, was joined by her family, friends and staff to celebrate
Read more...At The Lawn, the Alton-based residential care home run by charity Friends of the Elderly, resident Betty Marlow had a lovely day celebrating her landmark 100th birthday. To mark this landmark day
Read more...It’s World Friendship Day on 30 July and this year Theresa McNally, Creative Practice Manager at national dementia care specialist Vida Healthcare, shares her tips on how to communicate
Read more...Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together at Wilsmere House to enjoy a community BBQ that was held in the home’s grounds on 24th july 2021.
Read more...Together with Music is an intergenerational platform, centred around connection, community and music. As a member of the initiative, residents and staff have access to an impressive variety
Read more...As the adage goes – ‘when tough times come, you realise who your true friends are’. Four residents at CHD Living’s Surbiton Care Home learned this first-hand forging a strong, last-lasting friendship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more...Residents from a Chichester care home were among the first passengers to take a neighbourhood trip aboard a specially adapted community bike.
Read more...A carer who battled back after suffering Covid-19 to look after older and vulnerable adults in North Yorkshire is the first recipient of a special new award.
Read more...New analysis from the charity Age UK has found that in the two years since the Prime Minister made his promise to “fix social care once and for all”, over 1.4 million requests for social care
Read more...Sign up to receive the latest issues, along with highlights of the latest sector news and more from The Carer, delivered directly to your inbox twice a week!
