Care · 20 June 2023
Could you adopt?
Adoption in Merseyside is looking to find adopters for children who wait the longest for families.
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News · 8 June 2023
Corporate Director for Children and Young People’s Services appointed
LIVERPOOL City Council is set to welcome a new Corporate Director for Children and Young People’s Services. Jenny Turnross has this week been appointed and will come to Liverpool from Birmingham Children’s Trust where she is currently Director of Practice and has been in post since 2018. She will start work in Liverpool in August.
News · 27 April 2023
Royal College of Nursing industrial action
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members plan to join strike action from 8pm this Sunday (30 April) until midnight on Bank Holiday Monday (1 May). Unlike previous action, union leaders have confirmed that this strike will involve nursing staff working in emergency departments, intensive care units, cancer care and other services that were previously exempt.
News · 20 March 2023
UK’s first Kinship Carers Charter is launched
LIVERPOOL has become the first area in the country to launch a charter setting out how it will support kinship carers. The Kinship Charter Liverpool has been written by Kinship Carers Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council with both carers, children and young people sharing their experiences to develop the framework. Kinship carers look
Care · 23 February 2023
Council apologises for failings in homelessness case
Liverpool City Council has accepted the findings of a ruling from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman into the case of a man who was left homeless for six months during the COVID pandemic.
News · 31 October 2022
Children’s social worker? Get hired from your living room!
CHILDREN’S social worker? Want to find out why Liverpool is the best place to work in the UK? Want to get a great new job without leaving your home? Then join us next week for our very first virtual recruitment event! Taking place on Thursday, 10 November from 6-7pm, the Teams event will feature senior
News · 1 June 2022
Children in care show us who “Stands by Them”
CHILDREN in care have shown who “stands by them” as part of a special art competition – and will now have their artworks recreated by a professional artist. The Stand By Me art competition, organised by Liverpool City Council’s Fostering Service, ran throughout Foster Care Fortnight, 9-22 May and now elements of all the entries
News · 22 April 2022
Prime Time Parents Project set to launch
PARENTS across Liverpool are invited to sign up to a new series of advice and development workshops. Liverpool City Council’s parenting team launches its Prime Time Parents Project next month which sees a programme of 22 free, evening workshops that are set to empower parents and carers in their roles. The programme starts on Tuesday
News · 16 November 2021
Find out about Liverpool’s dementia services
IS someone you love living with dementia? Have you received a diagnosis yourself? Then you’re invited to find out more about the condition and what support is available at a special event this weekend. On Saturday, 20 November, Liverpool City Council’s Sedgemoor specialist dementia day service will be hosting a number of organisations and services
News · 10 November 2021
Liverpool 5G Create has a double award-winning digital formula
Digital health and social care project Liverpool 5G Create is celebrating double wins this week. The project, funded by the Department for Media and Sport’s 5G Testbed and Trials Programme, scooped the Tech for Good award at the recent Prolific North Tech Awards and also took home the Connecting People award at the Cambridge Wireless
Blog · 5 November 2021
BLOG: “We’re giving people a renewed sense of purpose”
For national Occupational Therapy (OT Week, we’re shining a light on the important work Liverpool City Council’s OT staff do, helping many of our residents. Here, on of our OTs Craig Taylor blogs on removing barriers to improving people’s health… This year Occupational Therapists will be promoting health equity across the country, but what is health equity?
News · 26 October 2021
New director of adult social care appointed
Liverpool City Council is set to welcome a new director of Adult Services and Health. Anne Marie Lubanski will come to Liverpool from Rotherham Borough Council and will take up the role, which oversees homelessness as well as adult social care, in the new year. In Rotherham, Ms Lubanski is the strategic director of Adult
News · 18 October 2021
Get online for Liverpool’s first virtual Parenting Conference
PARENTS and professionals working with children and young people in Liverpool are invited to the city’s first virtual Parenting Conference. Organised to fit around a busy family or working life, the online events will take place on 2 and 4 November and will feature 16 free workshops as well as other speakers. Activities start at
Care · 7 September 2021
BLOG: ‘A huge missed opportunity’ – reflections on the proposed adult social care reforms
Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson responds to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of adult social care reforms.
News · 28 July 2021
Liverpool foster carers share their stories to inspire others
A NEW campaign in which foster carers explain how looking after children in care has changed their lives for the better has been launched in Liverpool. ‘Small moments, big difference’ features inspiring stories from three people who look after sibling groups and teenagers, and is aimed at encouraging more people to come forward to foster
Blog · 1 June 2021
BLOG – Food Bank Diary – April and May
Beryl Bellew is a founding volunteer at the North Liverpool Foodbank. Beryl explains the stigma and then relief people feel when visiting a food bank of the first time and also the role that the Pantry plays… April “I told you they’d help you out and they don’t make you feel at all embarrassed,” so
News · 13 May 2021
Councils unite for Dementia Action Week
NEXT WEEK all six councils in the Liverpool City Region are joining together for the first time to mark Dementia Action Week. From 17-23 May, the local authorities from Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton will be offering an impressive range of mainly online activities as part of the annual national awareness week
News · 26 March 2021
Can you Step up to Social Work?
Liverpool City Council is supporting the national Step up to Social Work initiative that gives graduates of other subjects the chance to re-train for this rewarding career. This intensive 14-month full-time paid programme will see successful candidates working with the council to gain hands-on experience whilst studying at university. The programme: • Offers a £19,833
News · 9 March 2021
Covid isolation advice line now free to call
RESIDENTS self-isolating or shielding due to Covid are now able to call for advice free of charge. Liverpool City Council’s covid isolation advice line has now become a freephone number meaning that all calls from mobile phones and landlines are free. The new number is 0800 169 3032 and will be open from Monday to
News · 5 March 2021
Care home visits set to begin to open up
NEW measures announced by the government mean that care homes residents will soon be able to enjoy more meaningful visits with loved ones. From Monday, 8 March, residents will be able to have regular indoor visits from one named person. Although Liverpool City Council no longer operates any care homes, only offering 24-hour care placements
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