Wales news round up February 2024
WeCare Wales are currently running a campaign to raise awarenss of apprenticeships. You can find out more here. There are resources available for you to use here.
Care Inspectorate Wales have hired Practice Solution Ltd to evaluate their ratings pilot. Providers may be contcated by researchers to contribute to the evaluation.
Annual Returns are now published on the Care Inspectorate Wales website. The 2024 Annual Returns process will begin on 1 April 2024.
Social Care Wales have a series of events coming up on supporting employee wellbeing. You can find out more here.
The membership of the Social Partnership Council has been announced. Part of the responsibility of the Council will be to provide information and advice on socially responsible procurement.
An update has been provided on the Procurement Reforms.
The Welsh Government have provided an update on hospital discharge and care pathway delays data. A new data set was started last year which you can find here.
An update has been published on 'More than Just Words' - the Welsh Government's plan for the Welsh Language in Health and Social Care.
Social Care Wales will be hosting a panel discussion on the Workforce Race Equality Standard and what it means for social care on 8 February. Find out more.
Public Health Wales have made a promotional video for their free online module on why flu and COVID vaccines are important which you can watch here.
Advice from Older People's Commissioner for Wales on how to Help protect older people against financial abuse, fraud and scams
The Welsh Government has provided funding to ensure staff in the Welsh social care sector can receive cyber security training via Cyber Ninjas. The programme, which has been checked by the National Cyber Security Centre, consists of two hours of online lessons broken down into modules, covering subjects like cyber-attacks, phishing and hacking. The Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales (WCRC) is working alongside Welsh Government to ensure social care organisations can purchase Cyber Ninja licences. For more information and to enrol staff onto the training programme, please contact the WCRC team.
Business Wales are running an online bid writing training session run by Tenderwrite (not social care specific). Advanced bid writing, tendering to Win Contracts
