24 Aug, 2022 Vaccinations and religious beliefs – useful comments from employment judge By Jackie Morris The eagle-eyed of you might have spotted a recent news story; straplines such as 'sacked care worker’s vaccine beliefs were religious'...
28 Apr, 2022 High Court Ruling on Covid-19 care home deaths: government discharging policy unlawful By Lorna Kenyon-Pain We were interested to read the High Court’s ruling that the Government’s policy to discharge patients from hospitals to care homes at the...
05 Apr, 2022 April guidance: it’s as woolly as the new lambs! By Libby Hubbard Do you remember that feeling when school was out… for the last time? No rules, no one telling you what you should do. I am feeling a...
15 Dec, 2021 Providers must act now - making vaccination a condition of deployment By Anna Dabek The Government announced on 9 November 2021 that health and social care providers in England will be required to ensure all staff who...
29 Sep, 2021 Covid-19 public inquiry - Appointing a chair By Lorna Kenyon-Pain After meeting yesterday with the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, the Prime Minister has promised to appoint a chair for the...
21 Jul, 2021 CQC publishes data on Covid-19 related deaths in care homes By Lorna Kenyon-Pain On Wednesday 21 July, the CQC published data regarding the number of Covid-19 related deaths at each care home in England. There has been...
19 May, 2021 Conflict is inevitable - it doesn't have to be costly By Libby Hubbard ACAS is to workplace relationships as Relate is to romantic ones; a national organisation seeking to advise, conciliate and repair those...
23 Mar, 2021 Social care workforce facing mandatory vaccination - expect a Human Rights Act challenge By Matthew Wort It is being reported that a paper has been leaked showing that Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have agreed to put in place legislation to...
16 Feb, 2021 Procuring contracts without competition - Covid-19 By Alex Lawrence When reading the article below on the Government's decision to continue its relationship with Edenred on free school meals, a particular...
12 Feb, 2021 A global pandemic called for a uniquely different solution By Peter Hubbard One of the most compelling stories from our 2020 Social Impact Report comes from the pandemic lockdown period in spring 2020. We knew our...
25 Jan, 2021 Top tips for council vaccination centres By Anthony Collins Local authorities across the country are converting their public buildings to mass-vaccination centres to help in the fight against...
11 Nov, 2020 Covid-19 and mental health By Anthony Collins A recent study by researchers at Oxford and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre has found initial links with mental health and...