Surrey Rest Homes Ltd - Links Page to Main Care Service Sites
Some Links to Major Care Service Operations
The Carer is a site specifically designed to offer help and advice to those in a caring role
http://www.thecarer.co.uk/home.htm
A website containing reviews of care homes by service users and their families, designed to help others choose services, was launched this week.
The reviews, on the WhereforCare site, accompany more general information on choosing care homes, and the site is designed to help tackle existing public ignorance.
The information service, run by former social care staff, also includes a discussion forum and an opportunity for homes to advertise jobs.
http://www.whereforcare.co.uk/index.php
Social Information on Disability - SID runs a free, independent information service answering enquiries on anything to do with living with a disability. Also issues a second hand equipment for sale listing bi-monthly
www.asksid.org.uk
The web site of Surrey’s Children and Families Information Service.
www.socialworkandcare.co.uk
A combined social work and social care website with information about work in social care and links to job search sites.
www.skillsforcare.org.uk
Skills for Care – England web site - Latest information from the Sector Skills Council (formerly called Topss)
SE Regional Pages at:
www.skillsforcare.org.uk/southeast
www.pavauk.org.uk
Practitioner Alliance Against Abuse of Vulnerable Adults (a charity established to enhance protection of vulnerable adults)
www.lsc.gov.uk
The Learning and Skills Council, responsible for planning and funding vocational training
www.surreycc.gov.uk
Surrey County Councils web site
www.ukhca.co.uk/
United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA) is the professional association of home care providers from the independent, voluntary, not-for-profit and statutory sectors. UKHCA helps organisations that provide social care, which may include nursing services, to people in their own homes, promoting high standards of care and providing representation with national and regional policy-makers and regulators. The Association represents over 1,600 members across the United Kingdom, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
OBJECTIVES
To provide a safe and enjoyable environment for elderly people who are no longer manage in their own homes;
To provide a quality of life that enables residents to retain their independence, identity and a sense of their own value and to have as many choices as possible within the day to day life of the Home and to afford residents dignity and privacy;
To provide stimulation and encouragement to maintain as many previous skills, interests, activities and friendships as possible in or out of the Home and the opportunity to develop new interests and friendships;
To provide emotional support in day to day living and over personal problems, both for residents and their relatives;
To provide the highest standard of personal care with advice and aids to maintain personal independence;
To obtain health care provided by Health Service colleagues together with the opportunity for treatment and rehabilitation when this is required.