Webinar: Employing Overseas Nationals in the UK
Date & time: Wednesday 24 April 2024 | 1:00PM – 2:00PM GMT Are you employing or looking to hire overseas nationals to plug a skills…
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Care Workers
UK Government’s Changes To Skilled Worker Visa Salary Levels Set To Impact Care Sector
By Siobhan Owers and Ian Bell, Fragomen LLP (www.fragomen.com) In a plan to slash migration, the Home Secretary James Cleverly, announced on 5 December 2023…
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Outstanding Social Care Awards for Willows Care Home
Willows Care Home has received a Chief Nursing Silver Award for its outstanding contribution to Health and Social Care, while Gail St Juste-Alcide, its Clinical…
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Discharging Patients into Care Homes Would be ‘Appropriate’, Covid Inquiry Hears
The Covid inquiry has heard from a top government adviser that that discharging positive Covid patients into care homes would be “entirely clinically appropriate” while…
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Norwich Care Home Manager Wins World Body Building Competition
A manager of a residential care home in Norwich is following in the biceps of Arnold Schwazenegger in becoming a World Champion as a body…
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Government Urged to Recognise Long Covid as an Occupational Disease
The British Medical Association (BMA) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are asking the Government to make urgent progress on supporting healthcare workers with Long…
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Celebrating National Older Workers Week 2023
This week is National Older Workers Week! Currently, one in three workers will be aged 50 or over by 2025, and the number of older…
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CQC Publishes Pilot Adult Social Care Assessment Results
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published the findings of its 5 pilot assessments, assessing how local authorities meet their duties under Part 1 of…
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Deputy Manager of Care Home Treks 26 Miles For Charity
The Deputy Manager of Burscough Manor Care Home trekked 26 miles to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Lizzie Brighouse raised over £1,800 for the…
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BLOCKING overseas workers from coming to the UK to provide care would be a disaster for our ability to look after older and vulnerable people,…
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£15 Minimum Wage for Care Workers Would Boost England’s Economy by £7.7bn Says TUC
New research published by the TUC provides a local breakdown of the financial benefit to the care workforce, and the wider economic benefits, of raising…
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Unpaid Care in England and Wales Valued at £445 Million Per Day
– Economic value of family members providing care increases by 29% in a decade – Fewer unpaid carers overall providing higher hours of care New…
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Government Targets “Over 50’s” Back to Work
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt spring budget is targeting “a wealth of talent” aimed at encouraging over 50s who have retired back to work. Dubbed “Returnerships” the…
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Care Home Residents Pay Tribute to Ukrainian Team Member’s ‘New Chapter’
Care home residents in Hindhead have paid tribute to a brave Ukrainian colleague who marks her first six months of working there. Having witnessed the…
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Carer’s Leave Bill Passes Second Reading in House of Lords
Having successfully passed through the House of Commons the Carer’s Leave Bill has today passed its Second Reading in the House of Lords, with cross-party…
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