The BBC’s Health Correspondent, Nick Triggle, reports on plans to ease the pressure on hospitals by providing vulnerable patients with better support in the community. Social care workers and NHS staff will be available seven days a week when the new scheme comes into play. It is part of the government’s strategy to combine the NHS and council-run social care systems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29823763

This guide, Commissioning independent advocacy, produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), is aimed at commissioners charged with meeting the new duties to provide advocacy under the #CareAct2014. It will help commissioning officers in local authorities think through their new duties and understand what they are required to do to comply with the new requirements of the Act.

http://www.scie.org.uk/care-act-2014/advocacy-services/commissioning-independent-advocacy/

To view a free demo of our e-learning course The Care Act: Unpacked, please click here: http://goo.gl/WqICKX. To find out more about the course, please click here: http://goo.gl/njSiat

Embrace-learning has partnered with Carers UK to provide a full e-learning Care Act training course designed for frontline practitioners and carers. The Care Act Unpacked can be delivered at any pace and scale required and is suitable for all social care employers. To view a free demo, please click here: To find out more about the course, please click here: http://goo.gl/njSiat

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has unveiled a guide to good practice in commissioning advocacy for care users; an important element of the Care Act. We are advised that this is a work in progress, and the consultation process is ongoing.

http://www.scie.org.uk/news/mediareleases/media-release?id=a1UG00000041ETMMA2

Skills for Care and the National Skills Academy for Social Care, in partnership with The College of Social Work, have produced free learning materials for the adult social care workforce in preparation for the changes required by the Care Act 2014: http://goo.gl/2pGU9C

Embrace-learning and Carers UK have also produced a course about the #careact, entitled The Care Act: Unpacked. For more information, please click here: http://goo.gl/njSiat

Embrace-learning has partnered with Carers UK to provide a full e-learning Care Act training course designed for frontline practitioners and carers.

The Care Act Unpacked can be delivered at any pace and scale required and is suitable for all social care employers.

To view a free demo, please click here: http://goo.gl/WqICKX

To find out more about the course, please click here: http://goo.gl/njSiat