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• How to get your Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination in the West Midlands

  Monday, July 19, 2021

  It is now easier than ever to have your free COVID-19 vaccination in the West Midlands. The coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines are safe and effective and the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself, your loved ones and the rest of society. To have the best protection against COVID-19, it is important that you receive 2 doses of the COVID vaccination.

• Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care mission to make sure the adult social care sector is properly recognised, supported and built upon in a post-pandemic world.

  Tuesday, July 13, 2021

  Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care has thanked Social Care staff for their incredible compassion, dedication and flexibility in this week’s Adult Social Care Update and has said that she will make it her mission to make sure the social care sector is properly recognised, supported and built upon in a post-pandemic world.

• Frontline health and social care staff set to be offered a COVID-19 booster from September

  Thursday, July 1, 2021

  Frontline health and social care staff as well as those over 70 and other vulnerable groups are set to be offered a COVID-19 vaccination booster in the autumn. Boosters aim to ensure protection from COVID-19 is maintained ahead of winter and against new variants.

• COVID-19 vaccination set to be a condition of deployment in CQC-regulated service providers of nursing and personal care

  Monday, June 28, 2021

  Regulations have been laid to make vaccination a condition of entry in all CQC regulated care homes on 22 June 2021. If the regulations are approved by Parliament, there will then be a 16-week grace period before the regulations come into force.

• There are a growing number of calls for the Government to urgently reform social care.

  Wednesday, June 23, 2021

  A growing number of respected and renowned Social Care Sector organisations and charities are calling on the Government to act urgently to reform Social Care.

• New workers’ watchdog will be created to protect the rights of UK workers.

  Friday, June 11, 2021

  A powerful new workers’ watchdog will be created to protect the rights of UK workers, the Government confirmed on Tuesday 8th June. Responsibility for tackling modern slavery, enforcing the minimum wage and protecting agency workers – currently spread across 3 different bodies – will be brought under one roof, creating a comprehensive new authority, which will ensure businesses that break the rules have nowhere to hide.

• Female Care Workers are being urged to help shape Women’s Health Strategy

  Monday, May 24, 2021

  Women are being encouraged to share their experiences as well as their priorities for a Women’s Health Strategy, designed to increase the health and well-being outcomes of women in England. The government are urging female care workers, women from Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those living in the Midlands and East of England and women over 50, to respond to a call for evidence where they are encouraged to discuss their health issues and help shape a new Women’s Health Strategy making "health and care work better for us all.”

• More Care Home Residents Died of COVID-19 during the Second Wave than the First.

  Wednesday, May 12, 2021

  ONS data shows 21,677 care home residents died due to COVID-19 in the second wave compared to 20,664 deaths during the first wave.

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  Mental Health Awareness Week 2021

  Tuesday, May 11, 2021

  This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme is Nature and how connecting with the natural world can support good mental health.

• Failure to act on social care in the Queen’s Speech will be ‘bitter blow’, say the LGA

  Monday, May 10, 2021

  Council leaders from across the political divide in England are urging ministers to make good their promise to fix social care by setting out their plans for Social Care in tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech.
  They believe that failure to act on securing the future of adult social care as we emerge from the pandemic will be a ‘bitter blow’ to the millions of people who draw on and work in these vital services.