Nnatasha Tracy

JULY 17, 2024

Seeing a loved one obsessed with suicide is heart-wrenching and frightening, especially when you don't know how to help. Discover vital steps to ensure their safety, understand their condition, and seek the professional help they need. Learn about effective treatments and how to find support for both you and your loved one in this critical time. Your loved one can get through this, and you can play a crucial role in their journey to recovery.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for staff in adult social care are also included in its first legislative programme since taking office this month.

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Social Care

JULY 17, 2024

Photo by Edmond Dantès The votes have been cast and the country has spoken. The new Government is now busy setting out its priorities and future direction as set out in its election manifesto. As a sector, adult social care will be adjusting to new ways of thinking, as together we get to know how the new ministerial team likes to work. This means huge change and an inevitably busy summer as we seek to build new relationships and agree a way forward.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social Work England has issued guidance for higher education institutions (HEIs) on implementing new standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) qualifying courses. The standards will replace the current regime, which Social Work England inherited from the Health and Care Professions Council , in summer 2025, from when the regulator will use them to approve new courses and reap

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

Warning on ‘cycle of low wages’ comes as government pledges in king’s speech to introduce fair pay agreement A specific minimum wage for social care is needed if England is to avert a staffing crisis, according to leading thinktanks. Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation have also called for the introduction of of national pay banding to tackle pernicious low pay in adult social care and encourage key workers to stay in the industry.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 17, 2024

I was surprised by Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance was a late convert to the MAGA cult. He offered several deprecating appraisals of Donald Trump during the runup to the 2016 election, referring to him as “cultural heroin” and fearing Trump could be “America’s Hitler.” Back then, Vance characterized himself as a Never Trumper.

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

A crackdown on the use of overseas workers and an AI bill were also missing from the speech King’s speech – live updates The king’s speech may have contained 40 proposed bills, but some previously mooted ideas were missing. Here are the proposals it could have contained but did not. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

Readers respond to an article that lays bare how relatives can find themselves evicted after a death in the family Kwajo Tweneboa’s piece about how bereaved relatives are immediately evicted from social housing struck home ( The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days, 16 July ). When my mother died in 2000, we had a week to clear the flat on the estate she lived on with us for 40 years.

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