In this week’s editorial blog, Jim Kennedy looks at the new DH statement on safeguarding.

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In this week’s editorial blog, Jim Kennedy looks at the final report from The Munro Review…

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I was at the Battersea Arts Centre on Lavender Hill last Friday, for a Volunteering, Training and Employment Fair. It was arranged by Lifetimes – previously the Wandsworth Voluntary Sector Development Agency, with whom we’re about to start an exciting co-production website.

The event was very well-attended, both in terms of voluntary organisations with stalls at the Fair, and the numbers of members of the public (and potential volunteers!) coming through the door.

There was a fascinating range of volunteering opportunities - including on-line mentoring of young people, helping people with learning disabilities safely use public transport, an LD theatre company, and many more. I captured a dozen or so of them on video, so I’ll leave them to tell you about their work…

In this week’s editorial, Jim Kennedy looks at the recent Ofsted report on their assessment of children’s services.
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In this week’s CareKnowledge editorial, Jim Kennedly looks at the publication by Consumer magazine, Which? of results of its investigation into care homes (click here to read it.)
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CareKnowledge editor Jim Kennedy looks his week at the new Provider Blueprint under ‘Think Local, Act Personal’

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In this week’s CareKnowledge editorial, Jim Kennedy looked at the recent King’s Fund report on integrating health and social care :

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In this week’s editor’s blog on CareKnowledge, Jim Kennedy look at the new report on the results of the consultation on last November’s draft material outlining a new approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care, and the new framework that will apply in 2011/12. His blog is included below.
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In a sad reflection of the parlous state of local government finance, this year’s Social Services Research Group Annual Workshop was a one-day event, rather than the long-standing three-day format. But there was a lot packed in!

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I, along with almost 200 other people, gave up last Saturday to attend UKGovCamp 2011 at Microsoft HQ near Victoria Station. I waxed lyrical about my first taste of an ‘unconference’ at UKGovCamp 2010 last year – a conference with no ‘experts’ dispensing wisdom, and no programme : just a group of enthusiastic people getting together, agreeing an agenda, and pitching in. You can see this in action below.

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