Care home couple Sian Walley and Steve Ferrier have become engaged – after staff at Highfield House in Wrexham prepared a romantic meal for the pair. During the meal – which staff served on a table covered in rose petals… read more »
The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has launched a singing challenge aimed at care home communities. The challenge, called Sing A Song, invites care homes to organise sing-song sessions for Red Nose Day on March 24, 2017, and there are… read more »
The Department of Work and Pensions is seeking views on what it will take to transform employment prospects for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. The government department wants to hear views from a range of respondents including… read more »
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is proposing changes to the advice it offers about performing risk assessments and has published a revised draft of its guidance. The HSE wants to see more emphasis on controlling risk and less on… read more »
New guidance published by Minister for Social Services and Public Health Rebecca Evans will help to evaluate ‘how the Social Services and Well-being Act is having a real, positive, impact on people’s lives’. The minister has published the new approach… read more »
Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport Vaughan Gething has released plans which detail how the NHS in Wales will deal with ‘surges’ in demand as winter closes in. The plans, released as part of a statement to the Welsh Assembly,… read more »
A new report has revealed that the National Living Wage has increased the financial pressure on care home providers who are already being hit by reduced funding from local authorities. The report, which was commissioned by accountancy firm Moore Stephens,… read more »
CFW members are being urged to become Live Music Now (LMN) ‘Friends’ as part of a scheme to boost music in care homes and other social care settings. Live Music Now is the UK’s leading musicians development and outreach charity,… read more »
A scheme aimed at helping police to locate missing adults is being piloted by North Wales Police, in partnership with Conwy County Borough Council. The scheme, named the Herbert Protocol after a former soldier who suffered from dementia, has already… read more »
Care homes and children’s homes providers are being urged to urgently complete their Self Assessment of Service Statement (SASS) before the deadline of November 28. CSSIW have written to providers to let them know that they are required to complete… read more »