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Including cleaning, catering, and housekeeping staff in social care workforce strategies and practices relating to COVID-19 recovery

Laria — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:35:37 +0000

Cleaning, catering, and housekeeping staff (ancillary staff) have been crucial during the coronavirus crisis given their role in infection control, food preparation, and help with social distancing. But they are traditionally overlooked by policymakers and commentators. Researchers at King’s College London want to identify best practice and effective policies for supporting the ancillary workforce of care homes. This will help meet a gap in policy – how to better support this staff group work to prevent coronavirus, help those with it, and with service reset and recovery.

Are you part of cleaning, catering, or housekeeping staff in care homes and would you like to share your experiences? Or are you a care home manager or in charge of Human Resources in a care home and have experiences with the ancillary workforce? Please contact Olivia by email olivia.luijnenburg@kcl.ac.uk or telephone 07927 512916. To thank you for your time, we will send you a £20 voucher.

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One year on from the Care Act – how are unpaid carers fairing?

Neil Wholey Chair — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:30:10 +0000

QA Research have produced a blog on the lessons learnt from research related to the Care Act. They look at the impact of the Care Act on unpaid carers since it was launched last spring. QA Research discuss the consistent positives and negatives that their research has revealed as well as provide tips on what could be done to ensure the Care Act meets the needs of Britain’s army of unpaid and often unseen carers.

Photo credit: The photo shows volunteer Laura (right) supporting Shirley whose sister Liz is her full time carer. By giving just a couple of hours every fortnight, Laura gives Liz the chance to take a break from her caring commitments.

Together Laura and Shirley enjoy doing crafts together and chatting about their lives. Laura has become a very important part of Shirley’s life.

NVCO London

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LARIA Conference Poster Sessions

Laria — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:12:08 +0000

Now available: LARIA Conference speakers’ posters.

Investigating the potential effects of the heatwave in Coventry
Presented by Andy Baker, Coventry City Council
Contact: Andrew Baker

Urban Audit – providing comparable urban statistics across Europe
Presented by Bill South, Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Contact: Bill South

Quality markers – co-producing quality monitoring in social care with peer reviewers
Presented by Rach Flowers and Liam Abraham, Warwickshire County Council
Contact: Rachel Flowers

Local spending on adult social care
Presented by Rose Martin, National Audit Office (NAO)
Related Content
Contact: Rose Martin

Land Use Economic Modelling – Delta Package
Presented by Richard Potter, Analytics Cambridge
(Awaiting PDF)
Contact: Richard Potter

Photo Credit: Coventry City Hall Sheep Purple

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Integrating services for older people

Richard Potter — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:04:12 +0000

On the 18th June 2014 there was a joint Social Services Research Group (SSRG) and the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR) looking at integrating services for older people. As an attendee the biggest research aspects I felt were:

Taking account of unmet demand (when trying to forecast future service need). When looking at care for older people we can use projections of the elderly and we can look at current service use by age group and then do something from that. But there is little information on people who cannot currently get the service and how that should be accounted for.
Related to this was the issue translating demand into resource implications, and then what to do. So if we seek to reduce the number of older people in hospitals how should the resourcing change, because the beds won’t remain empty in a hospital, they will be filled with other people….
There was the issue of how much wider to look. It can be easy to lose sight of outcomes. If the project is to improve the life of older people how, as a researcher, should you take account of the things outside social services & the NHS. It was said that that health services only contribute 20% in relation to the determinants of people’s health. The rest can come from housing, the environment, communities etc.

The SSRG are linked to the London School of Economics Personal Social Services Research Unit. Universities are keen to be able to demonstrate they are disseminating their research. To find out more about the SSRG please visit their website.

Photo: London School of Economics by Patrick Wilken

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