Research into how to improve retention and recruitment of domiciliary care workers has suggested limiting the use of zero hours contracts, paying the national minimum wage and paying for travel time. The Welsh Government, which commissioned the research in July… read more »
Do you know any social care heroes you’d like to nominate for a Wales Care Award 2016? Does someone in your organisation or across the social care workforce sector deserve to be recognised for their dedication to social care in… read more »
The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 has today (January 18) been granted Royal Assent by Her Majesty the Queen. The Welsh Government says the new Act ‘reframes accountability’ so owners of services can be held to… read more »
A letter warning of the serious threat to care and support from an underfunded National Living Wage has been sent to the First Minister and Health Minister in the Welsh Government. The letter, written on behalf of providers and commissioners… read more »
The Welsh Government has announced it has awarded nearly £22m worth of funding to schemes which will help children, vulnerable adults and older people over the next three years. The new three-year Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant replaces four… read more »
A carer has been awarded more than £50,000 in compensation after plunging down a lift shaft at a nursing home in a fall where her patient died. Carol Conway, 52, survived falling 20ft (6m) at Pontcanna House Care Home, Cardiff, in… read more »
Care Forum Wales wishes all its members, colleagues and partners a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2016. We look forward to working with you all again in 2016 – which promises to be a landmark year with… read more »
There’s just time to nominate a Welsh care home for a My Home Life Cymru Award in 2016 if you hurry. Today is the last day for nominations for the awards, which take place in Cardiff in March next year (nominations close on December 15)…. read more »
Staff working for the Pendine Park care organisation in Wrexham, owned by CFW chair Mario Kreft and his wife Gill, have thanked the couple for their 30 years of being in social care with a tongue-in-cheek video. The video features everyone from admin… read more »
Two nurses have been jailed for neglecting stroke patients on a ward at Bridgend’s Princess of Wales Hospital. A third was given a community order for the same offence. They failed to carry out blood glucose tests on patients, which… read more »