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Guidance on the Quality Matters initiative, which aims to improve the quality of adult social care.
This report adds to the growing evidence that unpaid caring should be considered a social determinant of health.
Carer's Credit helps carers fill gaps in your National Insurance record to help you qualify for the State Pensions and other benefits - what you'll get, eligibility and how to claim
Leaving foster or local council care - support from your council, review meetings and financial help
Data showing aggregate payments made to childcare providers and education institutions for both Care to Learn and the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund for students in defined vulnerable groups.
A guide to how prisons, probation and local authorities can work together to support people with care experience in custody and on probation.
Accelerating Reform Fund to support innovation in local areas to boost quality and accessibility of adult social care in England.
Get COVID-19 testing kits so you can test the residents and staff of a care home
Includes Carer's Allowance, disabled children and disability day care centres
We are the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
The government has announced record investment in health and social care of around £12 billion per year on average across the UK over the next three years.
Employer and employee guide to unpaid carer’s leave - who can take it, how long for, when can employers postpone or delay.
This guidance prescribes infection control measures for community care settings where service users have been colonised with C. auris.
4D mapping technology that detects falls using sensors and alerts carers is piloted in care homes.
The Healthcare Commission was a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Health of the United Kingdom to promote and drive improvement in the quality of health care and public health in England and Wales.
The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) was a UK health regulatory body set up under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 - CHRE has now changed its name to the Professional Standards Authority for...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination consent forms and letter templates for care home residents.
Guidance on how Ofsted regulates social care providers.
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