Follow up and presentation from the RM v-meeting Thursday November 7th 2024

 

Recording of the meeting

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Petition to get the social care sector exempt from increased Employer National Insurance. Please sign & get your colleagues and friends to do the same.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700080#:~:text=Petition%20Exempt%20all%20social%20care,by%20funding%20and%20staffing%20issues

Toolkit for delegated health tasks – https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/resources/documents/Developing-your-workforce/Care-topics/Delegated-healthcare-interventions/Governance-toolkit-delegated-healthcare-activities.pdf

Check your insurance, or talk with your broker to make sure that you are fully covered. The concern is that ASC providers undertake tasks that they are not properly covered for  – please check.

Social Works – John Buttle – https://socialworksltd.co.uk/ an update on the DH&SC ASC training funding stream – john.buttle1@btinternet.com

Presentation

Social Works LDSS funding update Oct 24

Carevision – Rishi Jawaheer – The importance of digitisation to the future of social care organisations, get onboard now. Rishi mentioned that he is happy to help with advice on this area – rishi@care-vision.co.uk

THe Carevisions software can be viewed at

https://www.carevisioncms.co.uk/

Skills for Care – Ali Porteous – Update from SfC in light of the budget and the forthcoming changes to employment law

Presentation

Skills for Care AP Presentation RMN 7-11

Unison – Stepanie Kearns – It’s time for radical change and that’s why UNISON members are campaigning for a National Care Service

 

 

 

Better Hiring Toolkit – https://www.betterhiringinstitute.co.uk/industry-best-practice/health-social-care   due for an update and revised version new year. Very useful for your recruitment process.

https://www.betterhiringinstitute.co.uk/resources-hub/employ-with-convictions

This is also worth a look and is a subject regularly raised.

Mpox

You may have already received an email from UKHSA colleagues announcing the first detection of a single confirmed case of Clade Ib mpox in the UK but I am sharing the key points from this here, in case it didn’t reach you. The full press release was published this afternoon and can be found here: UKHSA detects first case of Clade Ib mpox – GOV.UK

The key points from this announcement we would like to draw your attention to are:

• The risk to the UK population remains low
• The case was detected in London and the individual has been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital High Consequence Infectious Diseases unit.
• They had recently travelled to countries in Africa that are seeing community cases of Clade I mpox. No further details will be disclosed about the individual.
• Close contacts are being follow up. Any contacts will be offered testing and vaccination as needed. They will be advised on further care if they have symptoms or test positive.
• We are working closely with NHS colleagues and academic partners to determine the characteristics of the pathogen and further assess the risk to human health.
• While the existing evidence suggests mpox Clade I causes more severe disease than Clade II, we will continue to monitor and learn more about the severity, transmission and control measures.
• We will initially manage Clade I as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) whilst we are learning more about the virus.

Reminder: UKHSA: Cold weather communications toolkit 2024/25

The Cold-Health Alerting system, jointly provided by UKHSA and the Met Office, went live today (Friday 1 November).

UKHSA and the Met Office are encouraging organisations to sign up for Weather-Health Alerts, which are distributed via email and used by organisations to plan for adverse weather conditions.

To assist in spreading cold weather messages, UKHSA has also updated its cold weather communications toolkit for 2024/25.

Registration form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=mRRO7jVKLkutR188-d6GZn06Ss-xPLpCuYeyOZ-eFiFUMEVIMDRTOE5FVzFFM0NXNjFMWUlWMkJVMCQlQCN0PWcu

Winter toolkit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Al2E8x1x1sCVksJe4g_phJqr8gq_NLP

Government

Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction

Inquiry

Successive governments have presented reform ideas for adult social care, yet few of these have been implemented. This inquiry seeks to understand what this inaction is costing. We will investigate the cost of inaction to individuals, the NHS, local authorities and also to the wider economy and HM Treasury, focussing not only on the financial cost, but also on the personal costs and on potential benefits that are being missed. The inquiry will consider social care for both older and working age adults.

https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3449/

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8583/adult-social-care-reform-the-cost-of-inaction

https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/health-and-social-care-committee-launches-inquiry-into-cost-of-inaction-on-adult-social-care-reform/

Guidance for those of you with sponsored / international recruits

Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors part 3: sponsor duties and compliance

Guidance for sponsors on sponsor duties and compliance. PLEASE CHECK that you are using the most up to date information, before making decisions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workers-and-temporary-workers-guidance-for-sponsors-part-3-sponsor-duties-and-compliance

Home Office – UKVI, Sponsorship Journey and Compliance LCAS – October 2024

The next RM meeting is on December 4^th this is a face to face one at  The Braithwaite Hall Croydon, 10.30 with Fulcrum Consulting & others, all welcome

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcas-fulcrum-consulting-asc-rm-meeting-braithwaite-hall-croydon-tickets-1075495418749?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please use the registration so we know numbers for catering, if you have allergies, do let us know.

For queries, please contact

Peter Webb peter@lcasforum.org  07956878901

Or

Dudley Sawyerr dudley@lcasforum.org  07984466130

E&OE.