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This website has been designed to provide NCF members, and visitors, with information about the National Care Forum and our activities. It also has information on our member organisations and details of how you can join us and become involved in our work.

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Care Villages

Sowing the seeds for a better future for the elderly

Q1

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Creative Homes

NCF celebrates the arts in care homes

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Services Provider's Checklist

Quality First

The Services Provider's Checklist can be downloaded from the Quality First section - under the Forum tab - Committee section or clicking here

NCF launches ‘Quality First’ Framework

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National Care Forum supports
the Learning Disability Coalition

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Recent News

RCGPs urges scrapping of NHS reform bill
3 February 2012
NHS reform bill: Royal College of GPs urges scrapping By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC NewsThe Royal College of GPs has called for the...Read Full Article

Personalisation and the role of social work
3 February 2012
How can social workers know-how contribute to personalisation? When the government and social care sector published Putting People First in 2007, it...Read Full Article

£30m to modernise local charity support services
2 February 2012
Government invests £30 million to modernise local charity support services The beneficiaries of a new £30 million fund to help transform and...Read Full Article

MCA Code of Practice needs revising says MHF
2 February 2012
MCA Code of Practice needs revising to enable more effective best interests decisions to be made The Mental Health Foundation, in partnership with...Read Full Article

Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare
1 February 2012
Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare The Department has published a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for...Read Full Article

College of Social Work launched
1 February 2012
The College of Social Work celebrates its launch The College of Social Work celebrated its launch on Tuesday 31 January 2012, with a strong defence...Read Full Article

Events and Publications
of Interest to Members

Latest Thinking, Developments and Values in the Nursing Homes, Care Homes and Assisted Living Markets
29 February, 2012
Mayfair Conference Centre, London W2

This is THE briefing on what is happening and about to happen in all the nursing home, care home and assisted living markets. It provides the relevant information, highlights the trends, reviews the threats and suggests solutions. The wide range and depth of knowledge the speakers provide makes this an essential briefing for everyone involved in the sector.

This year the briefing covers:

  • Demand - from where and for what?
  • Implications of Government actions for values
  • New developments - what and where is viable
  • Availability and terms of finance
  • Understanding values in the different market segments, how they are performing and their future prospects
  • Current thinking on lease structures and terms
  • Opportunities in the special needs sector
  • Latest thinking on trends in Assisted Living offerings

For all those involved in ownership, operation and valuation of care and nursing homes and assisted living, their funders, advisors and agents.

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Making it Real
New citizen-led markers for councils, organisations and people to check progress with personalisation and community-based support

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Beyond Dilnot - a new future for social care?
The current system of adult social care funding and delivery requires radical reform.
This major conference will explore in detail the recommendations from the Dilnot Commission, the Law Commission's proposed changes in Adult Social Care law, and the key issues that need to be addressed to reform social care.
20 September 2011 at The King’s Fund, London.
For more information and to book a place: www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/beyond_dilnot.html

Prevention and Control of Infection
A one-day conference organised by The Orders of St John Care Trust.
8th September 2011

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Activity - Everybody's Job
A training day for Activity Organisers led by NAPA on behalf of NCF
3 October 2011 in Bristol

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NCF Personnel Statistics 2011

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Think Local, Act Personal

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Care Quality Commission
Adult Social Care Excellence Scheme

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Supporting Derek
New training pack aimed at those supporting people with learning difficulties who develop dementia, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh.
The pack is available to pre-order now via www.jrf.org.uk/publications/supporting-derek for a subsidised rate of £15 plus p+p.

Social Care Bulletin Sept 2011

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Prepared to Care

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Qualifications and Credit Framework

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Commissioning Framework for Health and Wellbeing
This framework builds on the whitepaper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say to outline the actions necessary to improve commissioning

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Employer-Led Leadership and Management Development in the Social Care Sector

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