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10 February 2025
The Adult Social Work Tool Kit is a culmination of resources collated to support communication, understanding and interactions with clients. It has been developed to give practitioners/frontline social work employees the tools to improve communication with individuals in a variety of settings. It is hoped better communication leads to building more effective relationships and a Continue reading…
10 January 2025
This resource helps shape high quality adult social care services and improve the wellbeing of adults using social care. It brings together our quality standards and medicines guidelines in an easy to use format, mapped against the Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s 5 key questions. It was designed the resource for people involved in commissioning adult social Continue reading…
7 December 2024
Public Health England and stakeholders have produced the toolkit to support care homes and commissioners to implement the NICE guideline (NG48): Oral health for adults in care homes. The toolkit also contains useful links for care home staff, residents, their families and friends to support good oral health and reduce oral health inequalities.
10 November 2024
Dignity Champions often ask how they can evaluate their services and ensure they are delivering a good quality service that respects a person’s dignity? Being treated with dignity and respect is vital for our wellbeing as it makes us feel valued and worthy. The National Dignity Council believe that ‘Dignity is Everybody’s Business’ and as Continue reading…
21 July 2024
The Herbert Protocol encourages carers or family members of adults living with dementia to collate information on those who are vulnerable onto a form, know as the Herbert Protocol form, that can be given to the police if they go missing.
21 July 2024
The Safer Devon Partnership has developed an online preventing exploitation toolkit to tackle the threat of exploitation. This toolkit will help frontline colleagues learn about, identify and report exploitation happening in Devon and the surrounding area. The toolkit’s audience consists of anyone who, through their paid or voluntary work, may encounter individuals who are vulnerable Continue reading…
30 April 2024
Devon County Council and the Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership (TDSAP) have a new Safeguarding Adult Concern Referral Form. Referrers are encouraged to use the form to raise a safeguarding adult concern with the local authority. The form is available on the TDSAP website. The form arises from national developments and local stakeholder engagement Continue reading…
17 April 2024
Planning Ahead for End of Life If you would like to support individuals you are caring for who may have a terminal illness or are approaching the end of their life make arrangements for their future care. This advanced care planning booklet can help with this as it gives the individual the opportunity to think and Continue reading…
21 March 2024
This compliance assessment is a simple tool which has been developed using the most recent information from the CQC and others. It will help you know how well you are doing, identify areas in which you need to improve and bring the guidance together into one place.
28 February 2024
A guide to understanding Dementia