Updates from SCIE

Here are some key update & publications from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). 

• SCIE hosted a Q&A webinar on the safeguarding implications of COVID-19 for those working in faith-based organisations, with presenters from SCIE and Reshet. Click here to find out more (recorded 18 May 2020).

• On the 20th May the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published its COVID-19 Insight report which concludes that that more than a third (36%) of care homes had been affected by COVID-19 as of 10 May. The report looks at all social care provision in the first few weeks of the lockdown. Click here to read Kathryn Smith, Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence response.

• Ossie Stuart, SCIE trustee and equality and diversity consultant, discusses rethinking what social care means and who delivers it, and the lessons learned from COVID-19. Click here to read more.