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Social care 2019

  • Teen with long hair looks at phone on bed<br>Teenage Girl on bed at home texting on her phone

    'No child should be moved away': why councils are opening new children's homes

    Vulnerable children are sometimes placed hundreds of miles away. Can new ‘family style’ homes meet their complex needs?
  • Teenager Talking To Counsellor

    Is it right to use AI to identify children at risk of harm?

    Machine learning is being used to help protect children, but it raises ethical questions
    • ilo of two people using an app

      From pain relief to memory prompts: the apps helping people with dementia

    • Care Home Grandmother Grandchild reading book

      We need to reclaim the founding principles of 1989’s Children Act

      Rachel Dickinson

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Training and recruitment

  • Adrian Routledge shows the ­‘multi-faceted’ nature of his work supporting Alex Woolfe.

    Jobs for the boys: the drive to get more men into social care roles

  • Medical Class<br>▲ Creating an integrated workforce would improve the experience of those receiving care PHotograph: Stocksy

    Could a new apprenticeship bridge the health and social care gap?

  • Five residents in a retirement home<br>A7TPMN Five residents in a retirement home

    The current social care system is a distant stretch from the one imagined

    Julie Ogley
  • Care workers Kerry Munro, left, knew her friend Sam Mitchell, right, would suit a career in social care.

    Refer a friend: can an app tackle the social care recruitment crisis?

Better housing

  • Alan Wheatley has added his own gardening touches to the communal garden area at Mears Social care home in Northampton, photographed by Michael Leckie for Guardian Labs, September 2019<br>Alan Wheatley at Mears Social care home in Northampton, photographed by Michael Leckie for Guardian Labs, September 2019

    'A home for life': extra-care housing helps older people stay independent

  • Smiling senior man with female healthcare worker. Home carer supporting old man to stand up from the chair at care home.

    Housing for older people: provision across regions is a postcode lottery

    Forecasts predict a shortfall in extra-care accommodation, despite supported living’s demonstrable savings on health and social care
  • Caroline Abrahams

    Building homes is no good if they fail to meet our needs as we age

    Caroline Abrahams
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