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End of Life Learning through Theatre Event

Herts Valleys CCG and Macmillan Cancer Support are hosting a Fully Funded theatre event Where | Abbey Theatre Studio When | June 7th 2017 6.45pm – 9.30pm Or June 8th 2017 1.30pm – 5.30pm Cost | Tickets are Fully Funded but need to be booked as they are limited Tickets...

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Truth about the Islamic Headscarves ban

The European Court of Justice has handed down a ruling that an employer’s ban on employees wearing Islamic headscarves in the workplace was not direct religious discrimination. However, this ruling is more complicated than it may initially seem. Our expert partners at...

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Herts Care Search open to public: Advertise your vacancies

In collaboration with HCC and software developers OLM Systems Limited, we have developed Herts Care Search (previously known as Herts Care Home Finder) in a bid to help to reduce delayed discharges from hospital into care homes. Herts Care Search is a new web-based...

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Latest Disclosure & Barring Service newsletter

The latest edition of the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) newsletter is now available and includes a workforce guidance update regarding roles that are within child and adult workforces. The update clarifies what happens when certain workforce roles require an...

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National Minimum Wage and sleep ins

With the new National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage increases coming into effect in April, our expert partners at Peninsula have supplied the below information regarding the interaction of the minimum rates and those who perform sleep ins.

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Sight Loss and Fully Funded eye tests

The National Care Forum (NCF) recently published a story that calls for more support for people with sight loss living in care homes. In 2014 The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) stated that almost half of the 400,000 older people who live in care homes...

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