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Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults, explains the vital role social workers have in encouraging others to maintain their COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations in the run-up to winter. The profession frequently interacts with individuals living with learning disabilities, dementia and mental ill health, for whom there are additional challenges and concerns to be explained and overcome.
As the health and care sector prepares itself for a potential surge in infections, social workers can help share the message and protect the health and wellbeing of those they support. |
Find out more about digitising adult social care services
at next week's Care Show |
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Come and meet the Digitising Social Care team at the Care Show in Birmingham NEC, next week, 12-13 October and also at the Care Roadshow at Epsom Racecourse, 18 October.
If you’re planning to be at one of these events come and say hello and find out more about the work to support the sector in adopting technologies to improve care quality and safety. Concerned about how to keep client information safe online?
Care providers must store and share information securely, but how can they make sure it’s protected? Digital Social Care offers free guidance, tools and advice services to help colleagues understand and improve their data protection and cyber security arrangements. |
Autumn COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations: the campaign continues
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All frontline care colleagues who are yet to have their COVID-19 boosters and flu jabs are urged to book their appointments and keep themselves, their colleagues and those they care, for safe, well and protected as winter approaches.
To help promote the benefits of vaccination to colleagues, visit the Campaign Resource Centre, where you’ll find Q&A leaflets, posters, social media content and stickers, all free to download and share. |
Helping unpaid carers to get fully vaccinated |
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Making sure frontline care and health workers have all the information and support they need to get fully vaccinated this autumn is important, but the same is also true of unpaid carers and the friends and loved ones they support.
Claire Armstrong, the Department of Health and Social Care’s Director of Adult Social Care Delivery, has written to local authorities and service providers reminding them of their obligations to support unpaid carers to get their COVID-19 booster and flu jabs.
In particular, she asks for their help in identifying and supporting unpaid carers who may not already be known to GPs and other health and care services. |