Mr Corbyn - yet another Politician who has no clue as to what is needed within the Social Care sector, it is not whether homes for example are privately owned or in local authority ownership, what is wrong with these Politicians, oh yes of course they don't 'live in the real world'.
For all our well educated and very clever Politicians here is a simple answer. Provide adequate funding for Social Care, and don't tell us there are x thousands or millions of pounds being invested or promised. Secondly invest in the hardworking staff (our Members) who work within the sector, recognise them as a profession and value them, including with pay that reflects a profession.
The solution is simple, but of course Politicians of all backgrounds simply use issues like this to try and buy votes at any given forthcoming election.
Having said this, there is of course also a need to remove the CQC and replace it with a body that is more about improving (in a supportive manner) quality than simply adding more pressure onto Registered Managers.
Lets face it there is something fundamentally flawed with the CQC when they take a year to provide an inspection report on a residential care home, a year, incompetence of massive proportions.
Sunday 15 January 2017
Friday 13 January 2017
CQC = Quality?
A Residential Care Home in Hampshire recently received its inspection report a yare after CQC had inspected the home, really? yes really!
You might aske yourself the question (as I have); "How can this possibly aid the improvement of quality and raise standards?" Just imagine if as a Registered Manager you had a member of staff that was underperforming and you took a year to tell them that this was the case, this is not how you support performance improvement.
Take another scenario, CQC ask you to provide information to help them judge how well you are performing, does anyone really think that they would just let it go, they would be on your back and would be thinking that you are pretty unprofessional.
Yet the more I experience CQC, both through my own personal experience and through Members\contacts in Social Care the more I begin to see just how unprofessional CQC can be and yet they are supposed to be the guardians of quality. When will someone take CQC to task over this kind of incident?
I believe that there needs to be a review of the way Social Care is monitored and quality is continually improved, including whether CQC are a positive or negative influence.
You might aske yourself the question (as I have); "How can this possibly aid the improvement of quality and raise standards?" Just imagine if as a Registered Manager you had a member of staff that was underperforming and you took a year to tell them that this was the case, this is not how you support performance improvement.
Take another scenario, CQC ask you to provide information to help them judge how well you are performing, does anyone really think that they would just let it go, they would be on your back and would be thinking that you are pretty unprofessional.
Yet the more I experience CQC, both through my own personal experience and through Members\contacts in Social Care the more I begin to see just how unprofessional CQC can be and yet they are supposed to be the guardians of quality. When will someone take CQC to task over this kind of incident?
I believe that there needs to be a review of the way Social Care is monitored and quality is continually improved, including whether CQC are a positive or negative influence.
Monday 9 January 2017
Shared Society
First we had the big society by Mr Cameron and now we have shared society by Mrs May, if they were sat next to each other in an exam they would be done for cheating (copying each others work).
Why? why another soundbite when for example the Social Care system is constantly struggling financially? The Social Care system has some of the most dedicated professionals working under extreme pressure for often low pay, owners are struggling with lack of funding and an inconsistent CQC often behaving in an intimidating manner and most importantly a vulnerable Client group being let down by not just a Conservative Government currently, Labour in the past and even the Lib Dems when in 'power' recently.
So a question to our Politicians - Are you going to continue with soundbites and claims that x million pounds are being put into the system or are you going to have the decency to do something meaningful to improve the current situation?
Why? why another soundbite when for example the Social Care system is constantly struggling financially? The Social Care system has some of the most dedicated professionals working under extreme pressure for often low pay, owners are struggling with lack of funding and an inconsistent CQC often behaving in an intimidating manner and most importantly a vulnerable Client group being let down by not just a Conservative Government currently, Labour in the past and even the Lib Dems when in 'power' recently.
So a question to our Politicians - Are you going to continue with soundbites and claims that x million pounds are being put into the system or are you going to have the decency to do something meaningful to improve the current situation?
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