"We believe in a person-centred approach where the customer in care has choice and control over the solutions they need and the lifestyle they want."
@MySupportC
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“Cultural prejudice around disability and old age, combined with budget cuts, mean it’s often assumed there is no need to provide support with careers or social activities for older people or disabled people”
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Labour’s free social care for over 65s will transform lives - but let’s not forget disabled people. >> My col. in tomorrow’s paper https://t.co/L1efmF9T75
When people with lived experience are designing the support then you begin to meet aspirations. This is just how we design our support courses https://t.co/cFiBBQJ2XV @nesta_uk#supportwork#supportworker
Very good to see people with autism or learning difficulties redesigning support to work for them. Vital to ramp up support to have a life - and reduce the support gap that leads some into inappropriate institutions https://t.co/YYSqB0Qsuq
In the absence of any concerted attempt to offer a support from the Government the care sector must now take its destiny in its own hands and start crafting innovative solutions that will mean that we ourselves will define the future.
Let us introduce ourselves...
We believe in a customer-centric approach where your customers have choice and control over the solutions they need and the lifestyle they want.
Read more here: https://t.co/vEruM8Uy4U
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“The diagnosis of dementia need not be a terrible sentence, but the beginning of a new chapter. People can live well, happily and adventurously with it for years and even decades. They can also live in loneliness, loss and desolation”
There are 3.6 million people working in the UK care sector.
Conventional training is minimal and inadequate, keeping support workers on the margins of mainstream learning and employment.
We are changing this. https://t.co/cFiBBQJ2XV
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4 great reasons from @CareerAddict about why lifelong learning is essential for a flourishing career.
1. It keeps you current and up to date
2. It can motivate you
3. It can help you grow your network
4. It helps keep you employed for longer
https://t.co/vcPTczODpu
Our new website and Support Worker course has launched! From £15 you can take our @OCNLondon accredited course to give you the ideal qualification to take your first step into self-employed support work.
https://t.co/zM4JCh5j4R
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"Experts fear as many as 500,000 people pass themselves off as trained care workers after advertising their services online."
We are working to change this by offering online training courses to anyone who wants to work in the care industry.
https://t.co/TMJYt83QqJ