Momentum is building behind Care Sector’s Got Talent 2026, with organisers announcing that entries have already surpassed the total number received for last year’s competition…
Read more...Colleagues from Care UK’s Tor-Na-Dee in Aberdeen have raised over £2,000 for Alzheimer’s Scotland after completing an 18-mile walk, and all whilst dressed in kilts!
Read more...Cygnet Adarna House has officially opened a brand new Social Hub dedicated to the memory of a much-loved colleague whose vision and hard work helped bring the project to life.
Read more...For the third year running, Barchester Healthcare staff and residents have come together to take part in an inclusive, company-wide initiative to raise funds for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation.
Read more...The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has announced the 12 finalists who will be competing for this year’s NACC Care Chef of the Year crown in October.
Read more...Dorset’s catering talent got to sharpen their skills as Care South’s chefs led a hands-on masterclass celebrating fresh, seasonal produce.
Read more...The Mayor of Redcar & Cleveland, Councillor Ceri Cawley, paid a special visit to Milewood’s Strathallen home in Saltburn, where she met the people who live there and the team supporting them.
Read more...More than half of care workers have considered leaving the sector in the last year, according to a new report highlighting the growing pressures facing the social care workforce.
Read more...The care sector has today given a cautious welcome to Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s landmark speech on adult social care, in which he vowed to fix England’s “broken” system and pledged that his government would succeed where “successive administrations have ducked the issue for too long.”
Read more...The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has welcomed the publication of the Care Workers’ guide to CQC, a new resource on the Care Quality Commission’s website co-produced with care workers from CWC’s Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project.
Read more...The Care and Support Alliance (CSA) has called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to make the long-awaited reform of adult social care one of the first priorities of his premiership, urging the Government to seize what it describes as a “historic opportunity” to deliver lasting change.
Read more...The Homecare Association has written to the Minister for Employment Rights warning that a late change to the Government’s new Code of Practice on trade union access to workplaces could add hundreds of millions of pounds a year to the cost of delivering homecare in England – with no funding to pay for it.
Read more...Rose Lodge care home, in Wisbech, was full celebrations for not one but two of their staff who celebrated 15 and 25 years of service respectively.
Read more...A three-week training course transformed the lives of three Gwynedd women who have celebrated a decade of caring for people with dementia. Roxanne Aston, Nicole…
Read more...Millions of care workers in England will be represented in upcoming negotiations on pay and working conditions through a new body established to deliver the first…
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