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
- 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
Next edition