Thinking outside the box

Thinking outside the box

Care workers wearing pyjama-style scrubs at night-time to help patients sleep patterns. Care workers reduce residents’ sleep deprivation by wearing pyjamas. The initiative met with a really good response from most of the residents and we’ve seen a drastic...

Modern Slavery in the Care Sector

After previous topics of safeguarding, this month we are going to look at something that comes under that issue: modern slavery. Modern Slavery is seen in healthcare more often than you would expect. It may be surprising that slavery is still a thing in the modern...
Skills for Care

Skills for Care

This month I have decided to look at the state of the sector as depicted by Skills for Care in its recent publication ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ I think it’s important that we don’t under estimate the challenges that the...