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Hertfordshire Suicide Prevention Strategy
The new Hertfordshire Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025–2030 is now live. Developed in collaboration with professionals and lived experience, it outlines a population-level approach to understanding, supporting, and preventing suicide. You can read the full...
A £1 million reminder – supervision saves lives
A care home has been fined over £1 million after a resident tragically chocked to death while eating alone. Their care plan required close supervision during meals, yet staff left them unattended for 20 minutes. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed this...
Legislation update
Prior to the Christmas recess period, two significant pieces of legislation received Royal Assent. On 18 December, the long-awaited Mental Health Bill became law. The new Act is designed to modernise a framework that has been largely unchanged since the 1980s, with a...
Urgent winter update for all providers
Winter has arrived, influenza cases are rising fast, and hospitals are under great pressure due to ongoing doctors’ industrial action. It is imperative that all care providers are mitigating risks of infection those they support and their staff, and avoid hospital...
Fire Safety Legislation Update
In August of this year the BSI defined what constitutes a responsible person when completing a fire risk assessment with their new standard, BS 8674. This voluntary standard sets an expectation of knowledge and experience that you should hold to competently...
A call to action: Check your window restrictors
This story acts as a timely reminder to all residential care providers to check their window restrictors meet regulations. A care home provider has been ordered to pay £33,230 at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court, following a prosecution brought by the Care Quality...
Wellbeing support through the Care Professional Academy
For all Social Care Providers across Hertfordshire, you can offer your staff an abundance of wellbeing support through the Care Professional Academy, alongside great discounts, rewards and cashback on everyday shopping, travel, utilities and fashion via Care...