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09/03/10 - Skills for Care welcome new strategy to boost training for workers supporting people with autism
Skills for Care have welcomed £500,000 of funding to help frontline social care and health professionals become more aware of the needs of people with autism.
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09/03/10 - New NHS dementia awareness campaign launched
One in three (32 per cent) people are uncomfortable around people with dementia according to new research.
The full results of the MORI poll were announced by Care Services Minister Phil Hope today as he launched a new NHS dementia awareness campaign.
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09/03/10 - Adass tells DH: Make personal care part-funded not free
The government should part-fund personal care at home for people with high needs rather than make it free to ensure the policy is affordable for councils, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has said.
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09/03/10 - Age Concern and Help the Aged bring together Labour and Tory rivals to discuss care funding
Age Concern and Help the Aged has scored a coup by persuading health secretary Andy Burnham and Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley to share a platform for a care summit.
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25/01/10 - Complying with new CQC standards
Home care, nursing home and care home experts discuss compliance with the Care Quality Commission's new guidance
Experts decode what the Care Quality Commission's 275-page document on meeting new standards means for residential and domiciliary care providers and adult placements.
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25/01/10 - England's dementia strategy gets director
A psychiatry professor has been appointed to oversee how dementia is dealt with in England.
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25/01/10 - Safeguarding adults boards to be made mandatory
Safeguarding adults boards are to be put on a statutory footing and will be made mandatory for all English local authorities under proposals announced by care minster Phil Hope.
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29/12/09 - New research finds reputation for quality care, flexibility of employment and training are key to recruiting and retaining care workers
A new Skills for Care study into recruitment and retention issues across adult social care shows that a local reputation for delivering good quality care, flexible employment arrangements and ongoing training are key to attracting and keeping key workers.
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29/12/09 - Guidance on meeting new essential standards of quality and safety
CQC have published guidance for all health and adult social care providers on meeting new essential standards of quality and safety that will apply across the care sector.
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15/12/09 - Darling's proposed £250m saving 'unrealistic', says King's Fund
The pre-budget report announcement that residential care will need to save £250m by 2013 could damage services, social care experts have warned.
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