E-bulletins for care providers

The latest information for providers, to support you in managing staff and supporting service users.

Leicestershire Adult Social Care Provider E-bulletins

Issue 93 - 10 July 2026

Guidance and good practice

  • Protecting staff, digital check-ins and sponsorship scams
  • Managing deterioration in care homes

Learning and development

  • Tena continence and assessment virtual training

Health and wellbeing

  • Emollients and risk of severe and fatal burns
  • Campaign to reduce medicines waste in LLR care homes

Events

  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland sensory services launch
  • Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) provider network
  • East Midlands International recruitment - summer conference

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links
2026 E-bulletins for care providers

Issue 92 - 25 May 2026

Guidance and good practice

  • Urinary Catheters
  • Putting Dignity at the Heart of Organisations: The Work of the National Dignity Council

Health and wellbeing

  • COVID-19 vaccination – residents missed at initial visit 

Events

  • BILD Webinar- Food Choices and Mental Capacity (3rd June, Free to attend)
  • Opportunity to contribute to training
  • Free Healthy Lifestyle Session for people supporting adults with learning disabilities
  • Topic workshops

Reminders

  • Same day GP appointments available in Leicestershire
  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Issue 91 - 13 April 2026

Guidance and good practice

  • Add your service to CareFind
  • Infection, Prevention and Control

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Hospital Discharge
  • Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetics Service referrals

Learning and development

  • Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Provider Network

Opportunities

  • Guidance for user-led organisation on training fund applications

Health and wellbeing

  • New same day GP appointment service – information and toolkit

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Commemorating the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • #CelebratingSocialCare returns for its 5th year!

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Issue 90 - 16 March

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Annual uplifts for 2026/27

Guidance and good practice

  • Add your service to CareFind
  • Infection, Prevention and Control

Learning and development

  • Inspired to Care website
  • 15 Week Go Learn programme – Starting 14 April

Publications

  • Trading Standards spring newsletter

Opportunities

  • Are you Hiring International Recruits? Displaced Recruit Talent Pool
  • Tender Opportunity - Community Life Choices 2026 Framework

Health and wellbeing

  • Report an outbreak tool
  • Why use the tool?

Vaccination update

  • Flu vaccination – ends 31 March 2026
  • RSV programme – expansion from 1 April 2026 (older adults and care homes)
  • COVID 19 spring booster – starts mid April 2026

Consultations and research

  • Supporting the future direction of residential care for adults of working age - provider survey

Events 

  • Learning What Works: Embedding Research in Care Homes and Home Care (LiLaC)

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards 2026

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Issue 89 - 16 February

  • Guidance and good practice
    • Home Care Absence Forms
    • Oral Nutritional Supplement (ONS) Replacement in Care Homes
    • What is Burkholderia stabilis, and why should I check my first aid kit
  • Learning and development
    • UK Visa and Immigration Webinar         4
    • Better Security Better Care, exploring Data & Cyber Security Support
    • Adult Social Care topic workshops
    • End of Life Training
      • End of Life Care for Support Workers – 20 March (For Health and Social Care: Health Care Assistants (HCA) & Domiciliary care Support Workers)
      • Talking About Dying – 12 March
      • Prioritising Care for the Dying – 26 February and 15 April (One Day Course for Registered health care practitioners)
  • Consultations and research    
    • Call for Input on FFP3 Fit-Testing Capacity
    • Care Home Linen Survey - can you help De Montfort University?
    • Latent TB Survey
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links

Issue 88 - 19 January

  • The future of adult social care
    • Adult Social Care Survey 2025/26
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Positive Behaviour Support Team - Referrals Feedback
  • Publications
    • Inspired to Care Newsletter
  • Opportunities
    • Connect to Work
    • What is Connect to Work?
    • Interested businesses
    • Interested individuals
  • Consultations and research
    • Consultation on the Down Syndrome Act 2022
  • Events
    • Positive Behaviour Support - Provider Network 11 March
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
2025 E-bulletins for care providers

Season’s Greetings from the Director of Adult Social Care

The future of adult social care

  • System pressures

Guidance and good practice

  • Controlled Drugs

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Inflationary Fee Uplift
  • Gifts to Leicestershire County Council Staff

Learning and development

  • Understanding The Oliver McGowan Training Offer Live Webinar
  • Sponsorship Webinar 15 December 2025
  • Safeguarding Matters Live Briefing

Publications

  • Autumn Controlled Drugs Newsletter

Health and wellbeing

  • Supporting residents through Pre-Transfer Clinical Discussion and Assessment (PTCDA)

Consultations and research

  • New Carers’ Strategy for adult carers in Leicestershire

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Help Shape the Future of Dementia Care in Leicestershire

Health and wellbeing

  • Mouth Cancer Action Month

Consultations and research

  • New Carers’ Strategy for adult carers in Leicestershire

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Home Care packages in the Harborough zones
  • LLR Care Record: Tackling winter pressures
  • New Leicestershire Carers Strategy
  • Safeguarding Adults Week: 17 to 21 November 2025

Health and wellbeing

  • An earlier start to flu season
  • LLR Appliance Prescription Service launch 10 November 2025

Consultations and research

  • Adult Social Care Survey 2025/26
  • Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (ASC LDSS)

Events

  • PBS Provider Network

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Learning and development

  • Free Training from LOROS
  • End of Life Care for Support Workers – 13th November
  • Talking About Dying – 14th November and 18th December

Publications

  • Safeguarding Matters Issue 36

Opportunities

  • Digital Care Hub - pilot opportunity: Redflags® cyber awareness tool

Data tracking

  • Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set
  • Midlands ASC-WDS Workshops

Health and wellbeing

  • COVID-19 & Flu Vaccinations – Autumn/Winter 2025

Events

  • Nutrition and Healthy Living Network for Learning Disability Care Providers

Reminders

  • Independent care home trusted assessors (CHTA)
  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Audit tool
  • Campaign to reduce medicines waste in LLR care homes

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Adult Social Care CQC report

Events

  • Action falls

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Infection, Prevention and Control Webinars
    • National Patient Safety Alert
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Provider Portal Maintenance
  • Publications
    • Trading Standards News – Autumn 2025
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Oral Nutritional Supplements
  • Events
    • Navigating The World of Care Together – webinar 26th September
    • World Sepsis Day – 13th September
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Fraud Awareness – Care Providers
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Emergency Alert Test – 7 September
    • Whzan and Consent
  • Learning and development
    • Caring for those with CPE/CRO – webinar
    • Language Training Webinar – 15 September 2025
  • Publications
    • Use of VAT grouping within the care industry – FAQ
    • Safeguarding Matters – 3 July 2025
  • Opportunities
    • Nurse Prescribing Pilot
  • Consultations and research
    •  LSCDG Survey
  • Events 
    • EMCARE Annual Care Conference 2025 – 16 September 2025
    • The Future of Social Care: Powered by TEC, Driven by People Event – 30 September 2025
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Home Care – Live in/24-hour Packages
  • Webinar – Tuberculosis (TB) Awareness for Adult Social Care Settings
  • Update on Eligibility for COVID-19 Treatments

Learning and development

  • Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Provider Network

Health and wellbeing

  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
  • Healthy Living Toolkits launched

Consultations and research

  • LSCDG Research – Workforce Needs across LLR

Events

  • EMCARE Annual Care Conference 2025 – 16 September
  • Nutrition and Healthy Living Network for Learning Disability Care Providers – 2 October 2025

Industrial action

  • Delivering safe services during the junior doctors strikes

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Infection Prevention Control – Gloves Off Webinar

Learning and development

  • Support into Work at Meadow Barn View

Publications

  • Healthy Living Toolkits

Events

  • Bridging the Digital Divide: Health Inequality, Ageing, and Innovation in Care Homes
  • East Midlands Inter-nation Recruitment (EMIR) – Summer Skills Conference

Awards

  • Learning Disability Representatives Honoured with Awards

Reminders

  • Next edition

Guidance and good practice

  • Reminder for Home Care Providers – Time Windows

Publications

  • Fraud Awareness – Care Providers

Opportunities

  • WorkWell Support Service

Health and wellbeing

  • Healthy Living Toolkits

Events

  • EMIR Support Skills Summer Conference – 16 July 9.30am – 3pm
  • Learning Disability Week 16 – 23 June
  • Safeguarding Matters Live – 3 July 9.30am – 12.30pm

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • VAT for Care Providers

Publications

  • Safeguarding Matters - Issue 35 - May 2025

Events

  • Cyber Security Event for Adult Social Care Providers

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • New Resilience Forum website for local residents

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Fee Uplift 2025/26
  • Dignity Award
  • Quality Assessment Framework for Dementia Care (QAF)

Learning and development

  • Sex, relationships and being able to express who you are honestly
  • “What is Adult Safeguarding?” Information Session
  • COVID-19 Spring Booster 2025

Events

  • Thanking our nurses ahead of International Nurses Day

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Prepare for hot weather

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Fee Uplift 2025/26

Consultations and research

  • Health Equity Champions Network

Events

  • LDA Collaborative Health Equity event 19 June 2025
  • World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
  • International Nurses Day

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Care homes - Individual Placement Agreements

Learning and development

  • PBS Provider Network

Publications

  • Adults & Communities Engagement Panel Newsletter

Financial sustainability

  • Funding available for Sponsorship costs

Events

  • Neurodiversity Affirming Approach to Menstruation

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Spring 2025 COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Fee Uplift 2025/26
  • Working Age Adults (WAA) High-cost placements

Learning and development

  • Learning and Development Support Scheme
  • County Council election nears

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Celebrating Social Care

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Care Technology

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Financial Year End Procedures
  • Additional Funding for Whzan Blue Boxes – Join the Connected Care Programme

Health and wellbeing

  • New animation for staff working or volunteering in health and social care
  • World Oral Health Day - 20th March 2025

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

The future of adult social care

  •  Adult Social Care recruitment campaign

Guidance and good practice

  • Safe use of bed rails
  • Adult Social Care learning and development support scheme

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Support at Home – Tender opportunity

Consultations and research

  • Adults and Communities Strategy – Consultation update
  • Care home survey
  • Carers survey – Mental capacity assessment process

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Annual uplifts for 2025/26
  • Publications
    • Trading Standards News Winter 2024-25
  • Health and wellbeing
    • NHS Talking Therapy
  • Consultations and research
    • Citizens Assembly – Help shape the future of Health research
    • National dental health survey for care homes
    • Supported Living – Share Your Thoughts
  • Events
    • Awards
    • IPC Webinar - “Gloves Off” Wednesday 12th February
    • The Infection Prevention Society Trent Branch Conference – 12th May 2025
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
       
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Harrogate Community IPC Team - Cleaning schedule for care homes
    • What is adult safeguarding – online information session
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Home Care for Leicestershire Framework – extension
    • Positive Behaviour Support Network (PBS)
  • Learning and development
    • Eastmidscare webinar – creating bridges, supporting international recruits and their managers
    • Procurement Act - short provider webinar on 24 January
    • Webinar – What is good support for trans people with a learning disability and/or autistic people, 19 February 2pm – 3pm
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Supporting our LLR workforce to stay well through winter – guidance for leaders
  • Consultations and research
    • Adult Social Care survey
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
2024 E-bulletins for care providers
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Season’s Greetings from the Director of Adult Social Care
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Top Tips for Accessing the NHS over Christmas
  • Learning and development
    • Safeguarding Matters Briefing
  • Publications
    • Adults & Communities Engagement Panel Newsletter
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Reminder - When and how to use face masks
    • Spring 2025 COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Increase in the outbreaks of Scabies – reporting guidance
    • Storage of Controlled Drugs
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Gifts to Leicestershire County Council Staff
    • Additional Funding for Whzan Blue Boxes
  • Learning and development
    • Free Webinar for International Recruitment Support
    • Mental Capacity Act Provider Forums
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Covid Antiviral Communications
    • Message in a Bottle
  • Consultation and research
    • Can you help shape the future of local health and care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people?
  • Events
    • Safeguarding Matters Live – 11 December
    • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) draft Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2024-2029
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Provider engagement on fees for next financial year
    • Provider teleconferences for 2025
  • Learning and development
    • Being prepared for CQC assessment
  • Health and wellbeing
    • ChatAutism Text Message Support Service
    • Movember
  • Consultation and research
    • Can you help shape the future of local health and care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people?
  • Events
    • World Aids Day – 1st December 2024
    • Carer Rights Day – 21st November 2024
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Leicestershire County Council Trading Standards News
  • New ‘What is Adult Safeguarding?' - session now available to book

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • PBS Provider Network
  • Provider Portal single sign on
  • Home Care Await Care list

Learning and development

  • Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme
  • Skills For Care – how to access funding to support staff training webinar

Opportunities

  • Social Care Nurse Recruitment and Retention resources

Health and wellbeing

  • LLR online vaccination hub launches to support local people
  • Mouth Cancer Action Month
  • Winter Pressures

Consultations and research

  • Have your say on the refreshed Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) draft Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2024-2029

Events

  • Nominated individuals – Online annual national event 2024

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Islamophobia Awareness Month - APNA, British Islamic Medical Associate
  • UK Disability History Month – 14 November to 20 December

Reminders

  • Transport help for Covid-19 and flu vaccinations
  • Next edition
  • Useful links
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Controlled Drugs Liaison Officer for Care Homes
  • Learning and development
    • Learning Disability Health Needs Training for Providers – 4 December 2024
    • Leicestershire Social Care Development (LSCDG)
    • External Providers Training Online briefing 5 November 2024 – 10:00am to 12noon MS Teams
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Cervical Screening
    • Specialist Seasonal Vaccination Clinics for Patients with a Learning Disability
    • World Menopause Day – 18 October
  • Consultations and research
    • Secure email for the Adult Social Care Sector Survey
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • The future of adult social care
  • Guidance and good practice
    • eVisa
    • Reporting unwitnessed falls where injury has occurred
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • CQC Assessment of LCC Adult Social Care Services
  • Financial sustainability
    • Pension credit support
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Adult Social Care winter letter to Directors of Adult Social Care
  • Awards
    • Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • The future of adult social care
    • Adults and Communities Strategy – have your say
  • Learning and development
    • Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
  • Health and wellbeing
    • NHS England has set out their Winter priorities for 2024
    • Amber weather warning issued for Leicestershire
  • The future of adult social care
    • Adults and Communities Strategy – have your say
  • Guidance and good practice
    • International Infection Prevention Week 2024, 13-19 October 2024
    • Vaccination
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Reporting unwitnessed falls where injury has occurred
  • Learning and development
    • Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
  • Consultations and research
    • Palliative and end of life care services provided in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland
  • Events
    • EMCARE annual care conference 2024
    • Regional care alliance event
    • LLR winter wellbeing festival – 4 November 2024
  • Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
    • World Suicide Prevention Day – 10 September 2024
    • International Day of Older People - 1 October 2024
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Autumn/winter 2024/25 flu and COVID-19 seasonal vaccination programme
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Changes to Professional Portal referrals
    • Communications and engagement on public health
    • Trading Standards news
  • Learning and development
    • The Framework for Integrated Personalised Care training
    • LOROS Centre for Excellence palliative and end of life training courses
    • Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia - free NHSE webinars
    • Antisemitism: what it is, its roots and modern manifestations - Thursday 5 September 2024, 10am - 11.30am
    • Understanding Islamophobia - Wednesday 25 September 2024, 11am - 12pm
  • Opportunities
    • Displaced international recruits
    • East Midlands International Recruitment fund
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Managing the mental health impact of civil unrest
  • Consultations and research
    • Remote Verification of Death - surveys
    • Research into multiple long-term conditions for people with learning disabilities
  • Events
    • Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board conference – 19 September 2024
  • Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
    • Sepsis Awareness Day – 13 September 2024
  • Integrated Personalised Care: Training Requirements – booking form

Supporting our workforce

  • Message from Jon Wilson, Director of Adults and Communities, Leicestershire County Council, to care sector colleagues

Guidance and good practice

  • RSV vaccination
  • Measles vaccination

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • New adult social care videos
  • Provider forum meetings for 2025
  • Flowers and gifts offered to Leicestershire County Council staff

Learning and development

  • Restorative clinical supervision for nurses in adult social care
    What is Resilience-Based Clinical Supervision?
    Programme details
    Further information

Consultations and research

  • End of Life Strategy

Events

  • Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board – conference
  • Leicester Pride

Industrial action

  • Delivering safe services during GP collective action

Guidance and good practice

  • Six-month payment rule
  • Diabetes care planning

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Adults & Communities Engagement Panel Newsletter
  • Provider portal pilot

Learning and development

  • Navigating menopause as an autistic / neurodivergent person

Health and wellbeing

  • Heat Health Alert

Events

  • Leicestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board – Conference

Industrial action

Reminders

  • Next edition
  • Useful links

Guidance and good practice

  • Diabetes care planning
  • Nursing home equipment requests for bladder screening and syringe drivers
  • Section 117 – LLR Joint Policy and Practice Guidance
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccinations
    • Background
    • Vaccination

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Care home contract
  • Visiting Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre
  • Trading Standards Scams News

Learning and development

  • Leicestershire Social Care Development Group
  • Reminder of IPC webinars
  • Safeguarding Matters Live materials

Consultations and research

  • UK Covid-19 Inquiry: pandemic stories sought
  • More information about the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
  • Why should I share my story?
  • Help is available if you need it
     

Guidance and good practice

  • Respiratory Infection Guidance
  • Expiration Dates on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Cervical screening videos for people with learning disabilities
  • Summer Preparedness
  • Stop! Think fraud
  • Do you stop to check who’s really contacting you?
  • Do you automatically trust offers and click on links?
  • Do you use the same password for different accounts?
  • Do you use 2-step verification?

Learning and development

  • Reminder - Safeguarding Matters Live – 9 July 2024

Health and wellbeing

  • New Non-Emergency Patient Transport Provider from 1 July

The future of adult social care

  • Telehealth in care homes - HSJ finals for LLR entry

Guidance and good practice

  • Direct payments – new factsheets
  • UTIs and catheter care
  • COVID-19 vaccinations in care homes

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Requesting a change to current support plan
  • Backdated charges notice

Learning and development

  • Safeguarding Matters Live – 9th July 2025
  • IPC webinar series – September–December 2024

Data tracking

  • Digital Social Care Records (DSCR)
  • Capacity tracker

Awards

  • Nominate for the Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024!

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Numeracy Day celebrations – 24th May 2024
  • Local Attraction Offer for Carers

Industrial action

  • Delivering safe services during the junior doctors strikes
  • Impact on emergency and care services
  • How you can help
  • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital

Guidance and good practice

  • Supporting people to register to vote
  • COVID-19 vaccinations in care homes
  • Critical fuel users update
  • Advice for people on safety in an emergency

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Delegated healthcare tasks
  • Long term residential and nursing block contracts
  • Backdated charges notice
  • Allocated worker look-up – reminder and update

Learning and development

Consultations and research

  • Physical activity and wellbeing residents’ survey 2024
  • Online survey – overseas workers
  • Palliative and end of life support services questionnaire

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Carers week – 10-16 June
  • Learning disabilities week – 17-23 June
  • Happy Pride month – June

Industrial action

Guidance and good practice

  • COVID-19 vaccinations
  • Learning Disability Awareness Week – 17-23 June

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Implementation of the inflationary uplift 2024-25
  • PBS network
  • Home care call logs

Events

  • LLR Women's Wellbeing Event – 17 June

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards 2024

The future of adult social care

  • Connected Care

Guidance and good practice

  • Providing Care website
  • COVID-19 vaccination consent forms
  • Safeguarding Matters newsletter
  • DHU falls response service
  • Locking cooker valves

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Bosworth Medieval Festival - Community Board
    • What? Why? Who? How? When? Want to know more?
  • Provider portal logon issues

Learning and development

  • Sector-based Work Activity Programme (SWAP)
  • Learning disability health needs training
  • GoLearn! ‘Have a Go’ month – June 2024

Opportunities

  • Non-regulated support tasks – provider views sought

Data tracking

  • Capacity tracker reminder - window open

Health and wellbeing

  • Navigating menopause as an autistic / neurodivergent person: challenges and coping strategies – 10 July

Consultations and research

  • Snap survey – overseas workers
  • Healthwatch research
  • Social care research project webinar – 21 May

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards – October 2024

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Mental Health awareness week – 13-19 May
  • Thank you for #CelebratingSocialCare

Guidance and good practice

  • COVID-19 spring vaccination programme now live
  • Free transport to COVID-19 vaccinations
  • Safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
  • Get in the know about the latest scams and consumer fraud

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Inflationary uplift 2024-25
  • Draft residential contract – feedback open until 31 May
  • Health packages of home care
  • Allocated worker look-up
  • Leicestershire County Council provider portal
  • Draft Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy consultation and online event – 24 April

Learning and development

  • Free numeracy training for people with a learning difficulty
  • Young people, radicalisation and autism

Opportunities

  • International recruitment funding is still available

Consultations and research

  • Healthwatch calls for public input on supported living services in Leicestershire and Leicester
    • How to get involved
    • About Healthwatch

Events

  • Infection Prevention Society conference - 15 May

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • World Immunisation Week – 24-30 April 2024
  • World Hand Hygiene Day – 5 May 2024

The future of adult social care

  • Digital social care - animated explainers
  • Digital landline switchover webinar – 24 April
  • Carers leave

Guidance and good practice

  • Spring 2024 COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
  • Acute Respiratory Infection
  • Identify people eligible for treatments
  • Routine asymptomatic testing on discharge to care homes
  • Testing for outbreak management

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Changes to health protection contact details
  • Leicestershire County Council Provider Portal
  • Notifying the council of changes within provider organisations
  • Home care diversity

Learning and development

  • Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund

Data tracking

  • Capacity Tracker reporting window open until 15 April

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Celebrating social care

The future of adult social care

  • Carer’s Leave Act approved for 6 April implementation
  • LLR Adult Social Care Nursing Advisory Council

Guidance and good practice

  • Catching up with vaccinations
  • Resources for the spring 2024 COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • Diarrhoea and vomiting in care settings
  • COVID-19 testing in care homes
  • Visa reforms for care workers
  • Skills for Care ‘LGBTQ+ good and best practice’ webinar
  • ‘Made with care’ national campaign
  • Weighing of care home residents
  • Priority Services Register
  • Join the new LLR ICB WhatsApp channel

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Annual uplifts for 2024/25
  • Council support for recruitment and retention

Learning and development

  • Oliver McGowan tier 2 training

Financial sustainability

  • Increase in Funded Nursing Care rate

Opportunities

  • International recruitment: grant funding available

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Neurodiversity Celebration Week
  • Trans Visibility Day
  • The future of Adult Social Care
    • LLR Adult Social Care Nursing Advisory Council
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Ensure you are vaccinated against measles
    • Anticipatory medication in end-of-life care
    • Stop! Think fraud
    • Dementia and LGBTQ+ people
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Budget set at county council meeting
    • Service directory
    • Short-term packages of home care before reablement
  • Learning and development
    • LSCDG training plan for 2024-25
    • Skills for Care e-learning modules
    • Learning disability health training
    • Supporting people with learning disabilities through the menopause – 12 March
  • Opportunities
    • Last chance for Digital Social Care Record funding - 15 March
  • Consultations and research
    • Survey of unpaid carers on a new National Carers Strategy – deadline 7 March
    • LLR GP patient survey – final chance to have your say by 10 March
    • Care home vaccination programme survey – deadline 13 March
  • Events
    • ICB online event on end-of-life care – 13 March
  • Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
    • International Women’s Day – 8 March
    • Sign Language Week 2024 - 18-24 March

Guidance and good practice

  • Spring COVID-19 vaccination eligible cohorts
  • Care home vaccination programme survey

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Provider portal availability
  • PBS provider network
  • Leicestershire County Council home library service

Learning and development

  • Free sight loss training for social care staff

Opportunities

  • Digital Social Care Record Funding Deadline

Consultations and research

  • Local Skills Improvement Plan - results from survey work now live
  • Care home minimum data set study

Events

  • International recruitment event – 4 March

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Zero Discrimination Day – 1 March
  • International Women’s Day webinars – 8 March 2024

Industrial action

  • Delivering safe services during the junior doctors strikes
  • Impact on emergency and care services
  • How you can help
  • Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
  • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital

The future of adult social care

  • New animation explains workings of our integrated care system
  • LLR ICB Chair opportunity

Guidance and good practice

  • Measles
  • Care home providers – vaccination visits
  • International recruitment support
  • Support for providers employing overseas workers
  • Support for overseas workers
  • Addressing inequalities - Learning Disability and Autism Health Equity Network event – 28 February
  • Home Office information on right to work

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Updated budget proposals published
  • Framework for Integrated Personalised Care – training model review survey
  • Adult social care survey 2024
  • Packages of home care transferring from providers to HART for reablement
  • Residential contract consultation
  • Ratby and Kirby Muxloe major gas incident – thank you

Learning and development

  • Relationships and sex education community of practice session – 28 February
  • Webinar: The science of male mental health – 29 February
  • Good support for trans people and/or autistic people webinar - 3 April

Opportunities

  • ‘Made with care’ national recruitment campaign
  • Digital Social Care Record Programme funding available
  • What is the Digital Social Care Record?
  • Benefits of a Digital Social Care Record
  • Financial support available
  • Key contacts, resources, and support

Health and wellbeing

  • LLR menopause awareness service
  • ‘Help Us, Help You’ NHS Talking Therapies

Consultations and research

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy for 2024-2028
  • Young voices on health

Awards

  • Show some love for social care: Care Professional Awards 2024!

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Race Equality Week - 5-11 February
  • The future of adult social care
    • Care Workforce Pathway
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Search for local vaccination clinics using new website
    • Weekly home rounds
    • Cleaning and decontamination
    • Leicestershire Equalities Challenge Group newsletters
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Residential and nursing care contract
  • Learning and development
    • Multiply programme for people with a learning disability
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Time to Talk day – 1 February
    • Free online Steps4Health programme
    • LLR BREAK-150 activity challenge
    • Blue Light Card Foundation
  • Consultations and research
    • Proposals on visiting in care homes
    • GP practice survey
  • Events
    • East Midlands Care Conference – 6 March
    • Infection Prevention Society conference - 15 May
  • Awards
    • Care Awards East Midlands – nominations close 31 January
  • Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
    • Holocaust Memorial Day – 25 January
    • Poetry by health and social care staff from diverse communities
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • New year wishes from the Director
  • The future of adult social care
    • ‘Bring your own device’ action research
  • Guidance and good practice
    • International recruitment webinar recording
    • Frailty and infection
    • Winter vaccinations
    • Type 1 Diabetes in care homes
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • One week left to comment on the Council’s toughest ever budget
    • Important: change of out-of-hours number
    • DoLS: end of eFax service
  • Learning and development
    • IPC webinar recordings
    • Free IPC webinar on scabies management – 24 January
    • Introductory adult safeguarding information session – 31 January
    • Midlands activity provision network – 25 February
    • Free data security and protection eLearning
  • Data tracking
    • DHSC data collection reporting window ends 15 January
    • Skills for Care annual workforce report
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Launch of ‘Your Wellbeing Timetable’
    • Golden Games physical activity programme for older adults
    • Helping older people to cope with depression
  • Diversity calendar 2024
  • Reminders
2023 E-bulletins for care providers
  • Season’s greetings
  • Guidance and good practice
    • System pressures
    • Discharges from UHL and Norovirus
    • Specialist COVID and flu vaccination clinic for people with a learning disability
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Proposed inflationary fee uplifts for 2024-25
  • Data tracking
    • CareFind website – training dates for care home providers
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Keep warm and well this winter
    • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Forthcoming industrial action
    • Delivering safe services during the festive period – including additional strike dates
  • Key dates
    • Impact on emergency and care services
    • How you can help
    • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
  • Reminders
    • Next edition
    • Useful links
  • The future of adult social care
    • Carers’ Leave Act
    • Digital social care record funding – reminder
  • Guidance and good practice
    • National Chair in adult social care nursing
    • Carbapenem Resistant Organism (CRO) and hospital discharge
    • Continence information
    • Seasonal vaccinations
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Changes to our charging policy for social care and support
    • Fraud in the festive period
    • Provider calls for 2024
    • Up-to-date contact details for your organisation
    • Gifts to Leicestershire County Council staff
  • Learning and development
    • LOROS Lecture 2024: medications in the home for good end of life care
    • Disability Rights UK leadership academy programme
    • LLR Active Bystander programme
  • Opportunities
    • Intergenerational Linking
    • Help shape skills planning in adult social care
  • Consultations and research
    • Accessible research conference about relationships and sex
  • Events
    • EMCARE CQC event – 25 January 2024
  • Awards
  • Industrial action
  • Reminders
  • Next edition
  • Useful links
  • The future of adult social care
    • Accelerating Reform Fund for social care
  • Guidance and good practice
    • National Safeguarding Adults Week 2023
    • Safeguarding Matters online briefing – 6 December 2023
    • Specialist Covid and flu vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability
    • Free transport help for Covid-19 & flu vaccinations
    • Supply of Lateral Flow Test kits (LFTs) available free
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Care home contract
  • Learning and development
    • Leadership programme for adult social care nurses from global majority backgrounds
    • Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Personalised Care Programme 2023/24
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Movember
    • System health and wellbeing offers
  • Consultations and research
    • Monitoring infections in care homes pilot
  • The future of adult social care 
    • Digital Social Care Record programme funding
  • Guidance and good practice 
    • Winter preparedness and COVID-19 testing
    • Measles
  • Leicestershire County Council updates 
    • Supply of Lateral Flow Test kits (LFTs) available free
    • Positive Behaviour Support Leads network
    • Residential support network
  • Learning and development 
    • IPC Basics webinars
    • Safeguarding Matters online briefing – 6 December 2023
    • Oliver McGowan mandatory training on Learning Disability and Autism 
      • Tier 1
      • Tier 2
  • Opportunities 
    • Defibrillator funding
    • International recruitment funding
    • Veteran Friendly Framework
  • Consultations and research 
    • Survey for 2024-25 Funded Nursing Care rate
  • Events 
    • Winter Wellbeing Festival – 24 November 2023
    • Nominated Individual national event – 29 November 2023
    • Safe to Speak Up events
  • Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising 
    • Armistice Day – 11 November 2023
    • Transgender Awareness Week – 13-18 November
    • International Men’s Day – 19 November 2023
    • Carers’ Rights Day – 23 November
       
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Autumn booster campaign
    • DHU falls response service
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC)
    • Scams
    • Provider conference calls for 2024
  • Learning and development opportunities
    • LSCDG moving and handling ‘train the trainer’ update
    • Safeguarding ‘train the trainer’ 2-day course
  • Consultations and research
    • Improving access to adult social care training
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Face masks
    • Covid and flu vaccinations - reminder
    • Vaccinations for home care staff
    • Digital switchover scamming
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • Incident reporting
    • Six-month payment rule in home care
  • Learning and development
    • LSCDG survey
    • Cyber-attacks webinar
  • Opportunities
    • International Recruitment Grant
    • LLR Digital Social Care Record funding
    • Curious about Care
  • Data tracking
    • Mandatory capacity tracker completion - reminder
  • Health and wellbeing
    • Adult Social Care Workplace Wellbeing Survey
  • Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising
    • Black History Month - October
    • World Menopause Month - October
    • World Mental Health campaign – 7-13 October
    • National Hate Crime Awareness Week – 14– 21 October
    • UK Commission on Covid Commemoration final report
       
  • The future of adult social care
    • Digitisation is the power to improve care
  • Guidance and good practice
    • COVID-19 autumn 2023 booster and seasonal flu vaccine programmes – now live!
    • Safeguarding Matters
  • Leicestershire County Council updates
    • HART short term packages
    • Reminder of home care sub-contracting arrangements
    • Home care returns
    • Home care winter survey and weekly survey
    • Home care Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
    • Fair outcomes
    • Staying up to date with highways works
  • Learning and development opportunities
    • National training programme for professional nurse advocates
    • Dementia Clinical Network study session – 27 September
    • Stay Smiling e-learning
  • Consultations and research
    • The experiences of living in residential care
  • Events
    • LLR Festival of Practice – 2-6 October
    • Making the most of international recruitment – 3 October
  • Awards
    • Care Professional of the Year awards – last chance to nominate!
  • Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising
    • Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme - last chance to claim
  • Industrial action
    • Delivering safe services during industrial action in September and October
    • Strike details
    • Impact on emergency and care services
    • How you can help
    • Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
    • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
  • Guidance and good practice
    • Changes to Autumn/Winter 2023/24 vaccination programme
    • COVID-19 treatments for people at higher risk of severe outcomes
    • Heat health
    • Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC)
    • Community Safety team home fire safety checks
      • Home fire safety check
      • Smoke alarms installation
      • Targeted visits for higher fire risk areas
      • How to request a home fire safety check 
    • IPC audits – one year on
    • Language is important
    • Threats to email and network security
    • Better Security, Better Care
  • Learning and development opportunities
    • Oliver McGowan mandatory training on learning disability and autism
    • LLR Festival of Practice
    • Managing deterioration – training and useful resources
    • STOMP – online workshop
  • Data tracking
    • Capacity tracker reporting window
  • Health and wellbeing
    • ‘Your menopause’ survey
  • Consultations and research
    • Call for evidence - immigration functions and support to the social care sector
  • Awards
    • Care Professional of the Year Awards – nominations deadline 1 October!
  • Industrial action
    • Forthcoming industrial action of junior doctors and consultants
    • Strike details
    • Impact on emergency and care services
    • How you can help

Guidance and good practice

  • COVID cases increasing in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland
  • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital
  • Autumn and winter COVID-19 and flu vaccination campaign

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Hospital Discharge Grant for Carers
  • Leicestershire County Council Provider Portal
  • Home Upgrade Grant (HUG)
  • Provider conference calls for 2024

Learning and development opportunities

  • Free IPC webinar series – September to December 2023

Data tracking

  • Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) – drop in session

Consultations and research

  • National survey of care workers

Awards

  • Nominate someone you know for a national award

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Happy Leicester Pride!

Industrial action

  • Consultants’ strike 24–26 August
  • How you can help
  • Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers

Guidance and good practice

  • Leicestershire and Rutland DHU urgent falls response service:
    Who can refer
    How to refer
    Referral criteria
    Exclusion criteria
    What happens when a person is referred?
  • Unpaid carer leave entitlement

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Workforce Fund

Learning and development opportunities

  • Workforce Development Fund
  • LGO complaints webinar
  • Aging without children and later life equality
  • Constipation and people with a learning disability

Data tracking

  • Care data survey

Industrial action

  • Junior doctor strike 11-15 August

The future of adult social care

  • LLR Dementia Strategy consultation launch

Guidance and good practice

  • International recruitment

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Short term home care packages
  • Nursing band and MSIF - enhanced residential rates

Learning and development opportunities

  • Free IPC webinars
  • Fully funded LSCDG courses
  • LSCDG training plan for 2023/2024
  • Well-led & leadership courses
  • GoLearn 2023 Better Mental Health courses

Opportunities

  • Digital funding opportunities

Data tracking

  • Capacity tracker data webinars
  • Home care
  • Care homes

Health and wellbeing

  • LLR Health and Wellbeing Partnership - free prize draw

Events

  • EMCARE annual conference 2023

Awards

  • Care Professional of the Year Awards

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • South Asian Heritage Month

The future of adult social care

  • Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Care Record
  • Skills for Care adult social care workforce report July 2023

Guidance and good practice

  • Falls decision tree
  • Progress on health checks for people with learning disabilities
  • Laundry double bagging process
  • Changes to the shingles vaccination programme from 1 September 2023

Data tracking

  • Care data matters
  • Enforcement of data submission

Health and wellbeing

  • Wellbeing Wednesdays podcasts

Consultations and research

  • Consultation on learning disability and autism training

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Celebrating 75 years of the NHS 1948 - 2023
  • Disability Pride Month – July

Industrial action

  • Junior doctors 13–18 July and NHS consultants 20 & 21 July
  • How you can help
  • Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers

The future of adult social care

  • NHS patient safety initiative in LLR shortlisted for national award

Guidance and good practice

  • Fire safety in care homes
  • Activity coordinators network
  • Warm homes scheme
  • Data security and protection toolkit deadline – reminder

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Block contracting in care homes
  • Care Professional of the Year awards
  • Market Position Statement published
  • Six-month payment rule in home care
  • Automatic responses and home care call off
  • Retracting offers in home care

Learning and development opportunities

  • Managing deterioration
  • Supporting people with a learning disability to lead good lives

Health and wellbeing

  • DWP launches Pension Credit campaign
  • LLR health and financial wellbeing resources

Consultations and research

  • DHSC consultation: visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices
  • Loughborough University research opportunity – care homes wanted

Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising

  • Learning Disability week: 19–25 June
  • Windrush Day 75: 22 June 2023
  • Co-production week 2023: from 3 July 2023
  • Coronavirus assurance safety scheme extended to September 2023

Industrial Action

  • National Education Union – strike action                
  • Junior doctors – strike action

The future of adult social care

  • Understanding integration

Guidance and good practice

  • Mental Capacity Act guidance
  • Missed vaccinations and end of the spring campaign
  • ‘Evergreen’ COVID-19 vaccination offer ends 30 June 2023
  • Care home providers – protect residents
  • Hot weather
  • Heat-Health Alert service
  • Staying safe during the heat
  • Data Security and Protection Toolkit deadline
  • Sharps resources for care homes

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Residential contract review

Learning and development opportunities

  • Building skills in working with mental ill health
  • E-learning
  • Resource page
  • New DBS webinar series for adult social care sector
  • LOROS training courses
  • Free oral hygiene course for social care staff

Opportunities

  • Reminder of funding opportunity: Tech for Better Care

Health and wellbeing

  • Menstruation and menopause in the workplace

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Pride month 1-30 June

Industrial action

  • Junior doctors’ strike 14-17 June 2023

Guidance and good practice

  • Animation supports family decision-making about vaccinations
  • Spring COVID-19 booster campaign - missed vaccinations

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Inspired to Care - new managers’ and employees’ induction handbook
  • Inspired to Care – achievements during 2022/23

Learning and development opportunities

  • ReSTORE2 mini training
  • Safeguarding Matters Virtually Live - 7 June 2023

Consultations and research

  • Major Conditions Strategy – call for evidence
  • Volunteering in social care – national survey

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Leicestershire County Council carers’ event – 5 June 2023
  • Carers’ week online session for health and care workers – 5 June 2023
  • National Smile Month - 15 May - 15 June 2023

Industrial Action

  • Junior doctors – possible strike
  • National Education Union - possible strike

Guidance and good practice

  • Medication in home care
  • Stop, challenge, protect - anti-fraud campaign

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Six-month payment rule in home care
  • Reminder – how to use the portal

Learning and development opportunities

  • Learning disability health training – 14 June 2023

Opportunities

  • Funding opportunity – Tech for Better Care
  • Home care service – Leicester

Data tracking

  • Reminder – MSIF workforce survey for relevant providers

Commemoration, Celebration and Awareness Raising

  • Dementia awareness week – 15 to 21 May 2023
  • Mental health awareness week – 15 to 21 May 2023
  • International nurses’ day

Industrial Action

  • Possibility of future strikes in health and education settings

The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III
Guidance and good practice

  • Reminder – photo ID required to vote
  • End of free COVID-19 DBS checks
  • Coronavirus Assurance Safety Scheme extended to September 2023
  • Missed vaccinations for care home residents
  • World Hand Hygiene Day – 5 May
  • ProvidingCare.net resources – oral hygiene

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Submitting forms on the Leicestershire adult social care portal

Learning and development opportunities

  • Digital Skills Framework for the adult social care sector – 16 May     
  • Infection Prevention Society Trent branch annual conference – 17 May

Publications

  • Safeguarding Matters

Industrial action

  • Forthcoming possible strikes

The future of adult social care

  • Government sets out next steps to reform adult social care
  • Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF)
  • Podcast now available on the LLR Care Record

Guidance and good practice

  • National emergency alert system test – Sunday 23 April, 15:00
    Check an alert
    If you’re driving or riding when you get an alert
    Turning off alerts
    If you are anxious about the alert
  • Reminder: care home spring booster consents
  • Missed vaccinations for care home residents
  • Controlled drugs newsletter – spring 2023
  • Alternative fuel payment scheme

Learning and development opportunities
Safeguarding Matters briefing – 7 June 2023
Data tracking

  • Adult social care data enforcement commenced 1 April 2023
  • Reminder: Care Data Matters
  • ASC-WDS demo webinars for care providers

Health and wellbeing

  • Closure of the LLR Mental Health Wellbeing Hub
  • Reminder: My Truth – A Manifesto for Positive Change

Consultations and research

  • New care workforce pathway: call for evidence

Commemoration, celebration and awareness raising

  • Celebrating Social Care month
  • International Nurses’ Day and regional event

Industrial action

  • Forthcoming possible strikes

Guidance and good practice

  • Changes to COVID-19 testing
  • Action required: care home spring booster consents
  • Consent forms
  • Which vaccines are being delivered?
  • Registering to vote and photo ID required
  • Recognising deterioration in care homes
  • Check recruitment website pricing policies
  • Norovirus

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Home care forums
  • Strategic home care forums
  • April home care forum
  • Provider portal redesign
  • Learning disability student nurse placements

Learning and development opportunities

  • IPC Basics webinar: UTIs

Health and wellbeing

  • New Healthy Workplaces Leicestershire programme launching

Industrial action

  • Junior doctor industrial action

The future of adult social care

  • Market Sustainability Plan
  • Annual uplifts for 2023/24
  • Digitising social care
  • Digital switchover
  • Health and Care Together podcast

Guidance and good practice

  • Covid vaccine eligibility
  • Spring booster 2023
  • Evergreen offer
  • Nutrition and Hydration Week – 13-19 March
  • Routine, urgent and emergency health advice posters

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Alternatives to contacting the Council by phone
  • Contacting adult social care services at Leicestershire County Council
  • Advice and guidance on using the forms
  • Do you have ideas for developing contact methods with the Council?

Learning and development opportunities

  • Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism – get involved
  • Multiply project

Data tracking

  • Care Data Matters

Health and wellbeing

  • Menopause Awareness sessions

Consultations and research

  • Vivaldi research

Celebrations, commemoration and awareness raising

  • Neurodiversity Celebration Week – 13-19 March 2023
  • COVID day of remembrance and reflection – 23 March 2023

The future of adult social care

  • Fair Cost of Care and Market Sustainability Plan
  • Annual inflationary fee uplifts for 2023/24

Guidance and good practice

  • Spring COVID-19 booster eligibility
  • Community health services directory for care homes
  • Free personal protective equipment scheme
  • Photo ID at polling stations
  • International recruitment in adult social care

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Leicestershire County Council budget
  • Review of the Leicestershire County Council care home contract
  • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – care homes

Learning and development opportunities

  • LGBTQ+ learning framework
  • Mental health training offer for home care staff

Financial sustainability

  • Smart Solutions by ESPO

Events

  • My Truth – A Manifesto for Positive Change – new dates

Celebration, commemoration and awareness raising

  • 50 years of advocacy for people with learning disability

Industrial action

  • Potential EMAS and junior doctor strikes
  • Ongoing industrial action by National Education Union

Guidance and good practice

  • Guidelines for managing norovirus outbreaks

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • A&C Engagement Panel recruitment campaign
  • Changes to Professional Portal referrals

Learning and development opportunities

  • IPC webinar series – March to June 2023
  • Working with LGBTQ+ people in later life
  • Safeguarding Matters session materials

Publications

  • Health and Care Together magazine

Industrial action

Updates on delivering safe services during EMAS industrial action

  • How you can help
  • Local system plans in place to support adult social care providers
  • Discharge of patients with COVID-19 from hospital

The future of adult social care

  • Proposed fee uplifts for 2023/24

Guidance and good practice

  • Act now: winter COVID booster vaccinations cease on 12 February
  • Ombudsman’s guide for care providers on good record keeping
  • Free personal protective equipment scheme

Learning and development opportunities

  • LLR LeDeR learning event – 2 March
  • Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training             

Industrial action

The future of adult social care

  • Fair Cost of Care and Market Sustainability Plan
  • Proposed fee uplifts for 2023/24
  • Preparing for CQC assurance – seeking providers’ views

Guidance and good practice

  • Preparing for possible power disconnections:
    What are we doing locally?
    What can you do to plan?
    Further information and links
  • COVID-19 PPE guide for adult social care services and settings

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Live-in care

The future of adult social care

  • Digitisation in adult social care settings

Guidance and good practice

  • Importance of ventilation as a means of infection control in care homes
  • Provider contingency plans for possible power outages
  • Vaccination clinics for people with a learning disability

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Industrial action by National Education Union
  • New service levels - first party top up and full cost residential
  • May 2023 provider conference calls for care home and home care providers

Learning and development opportunities

  • Learning disability health training
  • Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training – bookings now open

Data tracking

  • Reminder to keep updating the Capacity Tracker
  • Adult Social Care Survey 2023

Opportunities

  • Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – scheme now closed

Consultations and research

  • Provide your views on long-term effect of COVID-19

Guidance and good practice

  • Mask wearing and free PPE scheme
  • Learning disability vaccination clinic details
  • Influenza outbreaks in care homes

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Discharge Fund – enhanced home care solutions

Learning and development

  • Skills for Care and Health Education England workforce planning training

Opportunities

  • Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – initial scheme deadline approaching

Data tracking

  • Health and Care Act 2022: adult social care information provisions

Health and wellbeing

  • LLR system health and wellbeing offers

Events

  • ‘My Truth: a manifesto for positive change’ workshop

Awards

  • East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative care home awards

Happy New Year
The future of adult social care

  • Social care reform and fees 

Guidance and good practice 

  • COVID-19 guidance changes
  • Face masks
  • Testing
  • Admission to care homes
  • Stay well this winter

Leicestershire County Council updates

  • Adult social care provider conference calls in 2023

Learning and development

  • ‘Lead to succeed’ and ‘well-led’ training programmes
  • MRSA refresher webinar

Opportunities

  • Winter retention payment for Home Care for Leicestershire workers – initial scheme deadline approaching

Events

  • ‘My Truth: a manifesto for positive change’ workshop

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