Supporting wellbeing - gardening demonstration webinars
We are working alongside Trellis, who promote health and wellbeing via horticulture, to host two webinars as we move into autumn and winter. The webinars will demonstrate straightforward gardening activities that can be undertaken indoors, to help people experiencing care to reap the benefits of gardening. The webinars are open to all and are suitable for people with no gardening knowledge. Please join us and have a go!
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Assessment of staffing levels: Guidance for non-premises-based care services
The Safe Staffing Programme team has published interim guidance for non-premises-based services for young people and adults on the effective assessment of staffing levels. The guidance is aligned with our quality frameworks and the Health and Social Care Standards and was written in collaboration with our stakeholders.
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Digital Social Care Test of Change Showcase
The Digital Social Care Team of the Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Programme have announcd thier first Test of Change (ToC) Showcase. Throughout Autumn and Winter 2022/23 they will hold a series of shared learning events from successful Test of Change applicants, delivered by speakers representing each participating organisation.
Each organisation will speak about their ToC for 15 minutes, followed by a 10 minute Q&A session.
Autumn/Winter series - 6 October 2022 10am - 11am
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Early Learning and Childcare Statistics 2021
The Care Inspectorate has today published ‘Early Learning and Childcare Statistics 2021’, which shows the availability and quality of early learning and childcare (ELC) for children and families across Scotland.
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Introduction to the Nurse Agencies Quality Framework & Self-evaluation toolkit
We would like to invite people working in nurse agencies to attend our upcoming webinar: Introduction to the Nurse Agencies Quality Framework & Self-evaluation toolkit.
This webinar will introduce our quality framework for nurse agencies and also introduce staff to the Self-evaluation toolkit which has emerged from the learnings of our previous work on the Covid-19 Self-Evaluation Toolkit for key question 7 from discussions with services and inspectors.
Date: Friday 21 October 2022
Time: 10am -12pm
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