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Today sees the publication of a report by the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care for Older People. The media coverage is misleading. It says this report is another jeremiad on elderly care in this country. Actually it is nothing of the sort. It looks to the future, and suggests ways to improve care. Rather than being stentorian, the report asks for feedback.
Such skewed coverage by the media is unhelpful. While it backs the report’s suggestion that staff need to be more talented at caring, and better skilled, its portrayal of the caring profession as an unattractive, thankless blame game will surely turn good people away.
Caring is a difficult job. Few people can do it really well. Those at the front-line of service delivery need our encouragement and support to make the improvements which we would all like to see.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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From 6 April 2022, right to work checks on all migrant or settled prospective employees must be online and checks on British or Irish nationals will be manual (free) or digital (charged for).
The long-awaited draft Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, including the Liberty Protection Safeguards (“LPS”), has landed.
Since 11 November 2021, workers in regulated care homes in England have been required to be vaccinated against Covid-19, unless they are exempt in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
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