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The Care Daily Journal · Issue 14

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    Adult Services, Care Homes, Children Services, Children's Homes, Compliance, CQC, Healthcare, Home Care, Ofsted, Social Care, Supported Accommodation, Supported Living
    October 24, 2025
    - ByCare Daily Team

    The State of the Nation Report 2025: What Providers Need to Know

    Each year, Ofsted publishes its State of the Nation report, which provides an overview of the state of children’s social care in England. The 2025 report offers important insights into the challenges and pressures facing the sector, as well as emerging trends in practice and provision. Key findings from the 2025 report The 2025 State of the Nation report highlights a number of significant challenges facing children’s social care providers, including: Workforce pressures The report notes ongoing difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified staff across all areas of children’s social care. High vacancy rates and heavy reliance on agency staff continue to affect the quality and consistency of care in many settings. Ofsted emphasises the importance of strong leadership in addressing these challenges and creating stable, well-supported workforces. Placement sufficiency The report highlights continued concerns about the availability of suitable placements for looked-after children, particularly for those with the most...

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    Adult Services, Compliance, CQC, Healthcare, Home Care, Social Care
    October 3, 2025
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Learning Disabilities, Autism and Oliver McGowan Training for Social Care Providers

    Since July 2022, all CQC-registered providers have been required to ensure that staff receive learning disability and autism (LD&A) training. This applies across all regulated settings, not just those delivering specialist services for people with learning disabilities and autism. More recently, this requirement has been strengthened through the Oliver McGowan Code of Practice and new LD&A content within the updated Care Certificate standards. Who was Oliver McGowan? Oliver McGowan was a young man with a learning disability and autism who died in 2016 after being given antipsychotic medication against his and his family’s wishes. Oliver’s death highlighted the urgent need for all health and social care staff to receive better training on learning disabilities and autism. Following a public inquiry and extensive campaigning by Oliver’s family, the government introduced the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism as a statutory requirement for all CQC-registered providers. What is Oliver...

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    Adult Services, Care Homes, Children Services, Children's Homes, CIW, Compliance, CQC, Healthcare, Home Care, Ofsted, Social Care, Supported Accommodation, Supported Living
    July 15, 2025
    - ByCare Daily Team

    How to Prepare Your Social Care Service For Summer

    With this year’s summer season well underway, it is time for social care providers to ensure they are prepared for the warmer weather. Making sure service users remain safe and comfortable during periods of extreme heat requires careful preparation and thorough planning. Policies and procedures Comprehensive policies and procedures are an important part of preparing for and managing the potential challenges of warmer weather. Some crucial policies your service should have in place are: Heatwaves Policy Hydration and Nutrition Policy Emergency and First Aid Procedures Policy Your Heatwaves policy should outline steps for monitoring room temperatures, ensuring consistent hydration, and recognising the early signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Supporting staff Services should provide staff with summer-specific training and briefings, ensuring all staff are well-equipped to deal with any weather-related issues. Training sessions should cover recognising symptoms of heat-related illnesses, effective hydration techniques, safe sunscreen application, and emergency response...

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    Adult Services, Care Homes, Children Services, Children's Homes, CIW, Compliance, CQC, Healthcare, Home Care, Legal, Ofsted, Social Care, Supported Accommodation, Supported Living
    May 14, 2025
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Mental Health and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care

    Understanding and responding to the mental health needs of service users is key to delivering high-quality and person-centred care. Mental health significantly impacts people’s daily lives, their overall well-being, and quality of life. Therefore, it’s essential for health and social care providers to understand how to effectively support and manage mental health. The importance of mental health in social care Many individuals receiving care and support can have complex backgrounds and experiences that are likely to affect their mental well-being, such as trauma, bereavement, isolation, or long-term illness. As a result, staff need to be alert to the signs of mental health challenges and know how to respond appropriately. Recent legislative updates Over the past year, a number of legislative and regulatory changes have been made to improve how mental health is managed in social care services. Mental Health Act Reform The government has been progressing reforms to the Mental...

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    Compliance, Healthcare, Social Care
    December 22, 2023
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Deck the Halls: Tips for Preparing your Service for Christmas

    Getting ready for Christmas? ClouDoc has some tips for your health and social care service in preparing for this year’s festive holiday.  Tip #1 – Get your shift/rota planning sorted Sort and send out your staff rotas as soon as possible to allow your staff members to make their plans over the festive season. Most care staff will understandably want to spend time with their family, especially on Christmas Day, so you might need think about some incentives that encourage staff members to come in on these highly coveted periods of leave. Incentives you may want to consider include: Enhanced pay during the festive period Half shifts (instead of a 12 hour day, staff work the morning or afternoon) Time off in lieu Alternating Christmas and New Year shifts Allocating annual leave Swapping shifts People that do this year’s shifts get next year’s shifts off Care staff who use public transport...

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    Ofsted: Social Care  – Registering Unregulated Provisions
    Children Services, Children's Homes, Compliance, Ofsted, Social Care, Supported Living
    September 8, 2022
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Ofsted: Social Care  – Registering Unregulated Provisions

    Unregulated provision – strong oversight is required to ensure young people are safe, secure and doing well. In December 2021, Amanda Spielman, Ofsted Chief Inspector, agreed to the government’s request that Ofsted should register unregulated provisions for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers. Although supported accommodation remains unregulated, it is hard to predict when inspections will begin. Quality standards and regulatory oversight are crucial. The government expects to implement the supported accommodation regulations by January 2023. Ofsted will begin registering supported accommodation providers in April 2023 and conduct inspections in April 2024.

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    Ofsted Press Release: Many Children Placed in Homes Far Away From Their Families Amid National Sufficiency Challenge.
    Children's Homes, Ofsted, Social Care
    July 18, 2022
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Ofsted Press Release: Many Children Placed in Homes Far Away From Their Families Amid National Sufficiency Challenge.

    An Ofsted report published on 8th July 2022 suggests that there are too few suitable places to keep children in care close to home. Children in the care system are often placed in homes far away from their families due to a lack of suitable places local to where they live, Ofsted research suggests. Ofsted’s report finds that children with mental health problems or who experience abuse and neglect are likely to live the furthest away from their home before coming into care and above the average distance of 36 miles. Research suggests that children are living far away from their families since homes are not evenly distributed across the regions of England, meaning supply does not match demand. For example, just 5% of England’s children’s homes (7% of places) are in London, but London local authorities placed 11% of all children in homes. Juxtaposed to this, local authorities in...

    Care Daily Team
    National Standards for Independent and Semi-independent Provision for Looked-after Children and Care Leavers Aged 16 and 17.
    Children Services, Children's Homes, Compliance, Social Care
    June 1, 2022
    - ByCare Daily Team

    National Standards for Independent and Semi-independent Provision for Looked-after Children and Care Leavers Aged 16 and 17.

    The Proposed National Standards Gov UK state: ‘This standard should enable a young person to have confidence in the organisation providing their accommodation and support, and the people responsible for running it.’   The Purpose and Intent Statement The registered provider must ensure that a clear statement (the purpose and intent statement) of the core aims, purpose and function of the service is produced, updated, reviewed regularly and accessible to all interested parties. The purpose and intent statement should include: A statement of the overall aims of the service, and the objectives to be achieved with regard to the young people accommodated there. This should include details such as age range, gender and the numbers of young people the accommodation is to be provided for. This statement should also explore how the provider intends to manage the different risks young people in the setting present to one another, and ensure...

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    Dietitians Week 2020 – how dietitians have been supporting the fight against COVID-19
    NHS, Social Care
    June 22, 2020
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Dietitians Week 2020 – how dietitians have been supporting the fight against COVID-19

    As part of Dietitians Week, the annual celebration of the profession, Caroline Bovey BEM RD, Chair of the British Dietetic Association, has written a few words about all the things dietetic services have done to support patients and public health during the coronavirus pandemic. Dietitians are the clinical nutrition experts – the only professionals specifically trained to support the nutrition and hydration needs of acutely and chronically ill people with a wide range of conditions. Many people may not have realised the important role we have been playing in response to COVID-19, and will continue to play to support people to recover and rehabilitate, so I’m delighted to be able to highlight just some of the roles our NHS colleagues have been playing over the last few months. Many COVID-19 patients have unfortunately required intensive care, where they will be sedated, ventilated and will have nutrition and hydration delivered through...

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    Chief Medical Officer’s letter to Queens University – April 2020
    Social Care
    June 22, 2020
    - ByCare Daily Team

    Chief Medical Officer’s letter to Queens University – April 2020

    A statement from the Department of Health. The April letter to QUB from Dr McBride is available on the Department’s website. Names have been redacted out of respect for all those involved. The letter is clearly about a specific issue of concern. It can in no way be accurately represented as an attempt to stifle academic opinion. A DoH spokesman said: The April letter was written after the Department was made aware of GP concerns about public comments by an academic. These related to what type of PPE to wear. It was felt that the public comments had the potential to create concern and confusion among GPs during an already stressful period. It is not unreasonable to raise concerns about public commentary. To depict this as some kind of assault on academic independence is frankly nonsensical. By the same token, writing to a newspaper paper about a specific inaccurate or unfair article...

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