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It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it,
that’s what gets results…
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A few months ago, I was contacted by an organisation (Fonden Vita) in Denmark about the introduction of Person Centred Active Support as a service model and a couple of weeks ago they flew Christine Rose, our Lead Active Support Associate, and I, over to meet with them; to review their service structure and teach them more about the benefits of Active Support and how it will improve the lives of the people they support. The service we visited is a supported living provision, called Faellesbo in Grindsted, near Billund (and the HQ of Lego!). Read more here...
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A message from ARC - since our recent office move, we no longer have a separate telephone number for our Training Services team. If you have previously used 01246 546 972 to reach Training Services, please could you now delete this number from your records.
Our telephone number is 01246 555 043
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Has the Government made social care less of a priority? 
Vicky McDermott, Chair of the Care and Support Alliance and Chief Executive at the Papworth Trust, comments on the actions and intentions of Theresa May in her new role as Prime Minister so far, reflecting that social care seems to be receiving even less crucial attention than it did under the leadership of David Cameron's Government.
NHS Chief, Simon Stevens, supports this plea to address the social care crisis, arguing that “The most immediate need is social care. If home care disappears and care homes close, A&Es are quickly overwhelmed. We need creative solutions.” Read more here.
Further reading:
- Read the Health Committee's report on the Impact of the Spending Review on health and social care - Conservative chairman of the committee Dr Sarah Wollaston MP said that “Increasing numbers of people with genuine social care needs are no longer receiving the care they need because of a lack of funding.”
- Paul Carey-Kent, Health and Integration Policy Manager at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy reflects on the increasing melt-down in the social care sector and what it means for the NHS. Read more here.
- Charities have written to the Department for Work and Pensions urging it to end the “shadow of uncertainty” cast on vulnerable disabled people by its latest round of cuts to disability supported living services. Read more here.
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Respond to the Communities and Local Government Committee's Adult Social Care  Inquiry - 'Is the funding available for adult social care sufficient?'
You can find out more and respond to the Inquiry here.
Alternatively please email ARC at Esther.Oddy@arcuk.org.uk
who will oversee a written response on behalf of ARC members.
Deadline for response to this Inquiry is the 19th August 2016.
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 Mock Tribunal events - book your place today! - new dates in London and Crediton now added!
Following feedback from our Network Meetings regarding Sleep-ins, holiday pay and National Living Wage, providers are continuing to have difficulties in terms of possible challenges from staff. To help support you with this, ARC have arranged for Flint Bishop LLP solicitors to provide practical help for you, your HR staff or Managers in the form of a Mock Employment Tribunal event.
The following events are now open for booking as follows:
- 8th September between 10am-1pm - York Innovation Centre, Science Park, Innovation Way, Heslington, York YO10 5DG - book your place here
- 19th September between 10am-1pm - Loughborough Town Hall Chambers, Market Place, Loughborough LE11 3EB - book your place here
- 18th October between 1:30-4:30pm - Bedford Chambers, 7 Bedford Row
7 Bedford Row, London WC1R - book your place here
- 1st November between 10am-1pm - TBC - Crediton Boniface Centre, Church Lane, Crediton, Devon, EX17 2AH - book your place here (*Please note that the session in Crediton will be a recording of a live mock tribunal presented by solicitors from Flint Bishop LLP.)
Cost: £15 for ARC members (£25 for non-members).
The Mock Tribunal is based on a real-life scenario and will give you and your staff the opportunity to witness a true to life representation of a Tribunal hearing. You will experience the giving of evidence, cross-examination, judicial direction, closing submissions and it will provide an insight into how you can deal with the pitfalls and problems that may arise should you find yourself in a Tribunal situation.
This will be a great development opportunity for you or your managers.
For more information please contact Esther.Oddy@arcuk.org.uk or 01246 555 043
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Lisa Lenton, ARC England Director, attended the CQC Trade Association meeting on  10th August. The key points are summarised below for your reference:
Ratings – there has been a marginal change overall in Adult Social Care ratings. The shift is however a positive one with improvements across the board. Details listed below:
The current overall ratings by service type were presented up to 5th August 2016. Community social care having the best ratings (1% Inadequate, 16% Requires Improvement, 82% Good, 1% Outstanding). The least well performing continue to be Nursing homes (4% Inadequate, 37% Requires Improvement, 59% Good, 1% Outstanding). Read more from the CQC meeting here.
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 It's a dog's life... ARC member Treloar's therapy dog, Nimmo, gives us a glimpse of his daily life with staff and service users. From soft play to a theatre performance, this story of how he helps students and is valued member of the team makes a lovely read! Hear more from Nimmo here.
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ARC member Community Integrated Care sponsored 
the 2016 One Voice Mela, an annual health event, on Saturday 30 July. The event was a huge success with well over 2,000 members of the Blackburn with Darwen community enjoying the day at Corporation Park. This is an annual event, working in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, to deliver both community and education initiatives, and integrate information into existing health promotional activity for the local BME community.
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ARC Disclosure and Barring Service
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Attention! Did you know?... 
- ARC England offer a Disclosure Service to help you in your recruitment process
- Our Disclosure Service is on line providing a faster service than ever before
- You can download e-certificates (Clear Certificates only) - no more chasing your applicants for their Disclosure Certificate
- ARC members receive a discount on the administration fee!
What our customers say...
"Amazing speed with which disclosures come back!
Great for the recruitment process"
"We really appreciate your help with our DBS checks"
"Thank you for your excellent service!"
Can we be of service to you?...
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 Your views matter - The Care Act one year on - survey coming soon!
One year on from the implementation of the Care Act 2014, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) wants to hear about the experiences of people with care and support needs to find out what difference the Act is making. Is it easy to get information and advice? Do people feel they have choice and control of their care and support? These will be some of the questions asked in the TLAP Survey Your views matter - The Care Act one year on (working title). The results of the survey will be used, alongside information from councils and others to help the Department of Health identify problems and workable solutions to inform future work on the Care Act.
The survey will be launched in early September - watch this space!
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Supporting carers to remain employed - a blog by 
Pamela Holmes, Practice Development Manager at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) argues that society must offer more support to an increasing population of carers to remain in employment - "Juggling caring responsibilities with employment is sometimes too much. Employees too often decide they can’t do both and leave the workplace." Read more here.
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Reports, resources and reviews
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Bowel Scope Screening - A new film that could help save lives, specifically aimed at people  with learning disabilities, has been launched. The film will help to ensure that there is equal access to screening for everyone. Tim Davies, Screening and Immunisation Lead at NHS England (Central Midlands), said: “Figures show that for every 300 people screened, one life is saved and two people can avoid bowel cancer." You can download a copy of the film here or call 0800 707 6060 to get your free copy and easy-read guide.
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The Fragile X Society - Fragile X Syndrome is the most common inherited cause of learning  disability. This range of Easy Read booklets give in-depth information about various aspects of the condition. You can download and view these booklets on their website.
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 Care Focus CIC - A really useful range of Learning Disability resources and guidance all collated in one place to make it easier for you, including Positive Behaviour Support Guide, Injury and Fall Prevention and Personal Health Budgets. You can view the whole range of resources here.
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HR help for employers - Managing summer holiday leave properly is 
important for any employer, manager or team leader. Acas advice and guidance is available to help - from holiday pay to managing absence - see here.
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 Counting the cost of UK poverty - a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This report estimates the public financial cost of poverty which comes from additional spending on public services when people need more support from the state. Read more here.
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MPs debate scamming and its effect on vulnerable individuals
On 8th September 2016, MPs will take part in a House of Commons Chamber debate on scamming and its effect on vulnerable individuals. For more information about this see here.
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 Legal advice for not for profit organisations - Nearly every aspect of setting up and running a voluntary sector organisation includes a legal component in some way. From incorporation and charity law through to employment law, data protection, equalities, tax law and contracting.
See here for guidance from NCVO on finding free legal and specialist advice.
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Consultations and dates for your diary
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ARC England Continuing Professional Development / Standardisation Events 
Each year Association for Real Change hold a series of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) / Standardisation events at venues across the UK to enable all assessors, internal verifiers and quality assurers to meet requirements.
These sessions are a great opportunity to work with Assessors and Verifiers from other organisations and to share good practice and knowledge, and we always include time for questions.
Upcoming dates: 17th August, Cheltenham and 20th September, Chesterfield
Find out more and book your place here.
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Laing Buisson awards 2016 - November 2016 - 
Social care category nominations are now open! You can review the awards categories here and submit nominations online from now until the closing date of 31st August 2016.
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 NICE Consultation - The draft mental health problems with learning disability quality standard: now available on the NICE website for consultation. NICE greatly value all contributions into the quality standard development process and would encourage you to comment. The draft mental health problems with learning disability quality standard, along with the instructions and documents required to submit your comments, can be accessed here.
Consultation closes 2nd September 2016.
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Consultation: New data security standards for health and social care 
The Department of Health seeks views on the proposed data security standards and the consent/opt-outs model from health and care professionals and organisations and the public. This follows the independent review of data security, consent and opt-outs by the National Data Guardian.
See here to download the consultation documents and to repond.
Consultation closes 7th September 2016.
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12th September 2016, 'Got my back!' - Changing Our Lives, Birmingham
is hosting a conference focusing on postural care. For too long many people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, neurological conditions or a movement difficulty have lived with discomfort and pain due to body shape distortions and lack of good postural care support.
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 22nd September 2016, Anthony Collins Solicitors,
Birmingham - FREE seminar - 'Social Care Property Development - what does the future hold?' Exploring what is happening and what lies ahead in the property development market for social care providers. Hosted in partnership with NCF, Carterwood, Property Consultant and Castleoak, Property Developer. Find out more and book your place here.
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Skills for Care Accolades - Nominations are now open! 
Skills for Care’s Accolades reward adult social care organisations who deliver high quality care. Entering the awards gives you the chance to recognise the great work you do and share best practice. If you provide a high quality service and invest in developing your staff SFC want to hear from you!
The Accolades are open until 23rd September 2016 to adult social care organisations and individual employers in England. Find out more and enter here
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 Community Care Live - 27th and 28th September 2016 -
This year's programme includes ARC's Project Officer Rod Landman talking about mate crime and the sexual exploitation of people with learning disabilities. You can view the draft agenda here.
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ARC NI - Conference 2016 - 'Fairy Tales, Fables & Facts: Bamford Vision, where are  we?' - Thursday 29th & Friday 30th September - This conference considers the achievements made in terms of the overall vision for mental health and learning disability, and most importantly acknowledges the recommendations still to be addressed, in order to achieve radical reform and modernisation. For more information and to book your place see here.
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ARC training courses and events
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*Special discount available for ARC members and Real People subscribers. 
Following previous success, ARC England are excited to be collaborating with Course Beetle once again to present both the 'Enabling Environments for Communication' and the 'Dynamic Approaches to Dementia' workshops.
The following dates are currently open for bookings:
- Thursday 17th November - Birmingham - 'Enabling Environments for Communication'
- Monday 13th February - Manchester - 'Enabling Environments for Communication'
- Monday 13th November - Birmingham - 'Dynamic Approaches to Dementia'
*Special discount cost for all courses: £90 for ARC members - £100 for subscribers to the ARC Real People Newsletter (quote RP0116 on the booking form). *Full price is £120. To book your place visit the Course Beetle website and select your discount option.
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 Based on the popularity of our Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) workshops, we are seeking to launch a Train the Trainer version, teaching your staff to successfully be able to deliver high quality training, with a resource pack to take away. To express your interest in a MCA/DoLS Train the Trainer workshop in your area, please contact us.
We still have spaces on our remaining August training dates:For more information about any of our training courses or to discuss your needs, please contact us:
Based on feedback from the Training Needs Analysis Survey we recently sent out, we are looking to improve our training calendar from September onwards, so watch this space for more details!
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ARC Membership includes free job listing on our website. We are currently  advertising the following positions:
- Autism Support and Care - Support Worker - Sutton-in Ashfield
- Encompass - various positions - Dorset
- Reach Learning Disability - Outreach Officer/Development Worker, Care Support Worker vacancies - Nottinghamshire
- Robert Owen Communities - (Male) Support Workers, Female Person Centred Support Worker, Relief Support Worker
- Somerset Care - Learning Disability Senior and Support Workers - various locations
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If you are an ARC member and would like us to advertise your job vacancies here and on our website, please email Esther.Oddy@arcuk.org.uk
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