WMCA Weekly Newsletter

December 3, 2024

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3 December 2024

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This week...

WMCA Updates
- Conference - Is your Care Service Effective? 23rd January 2025
- Winter Decorations Competition - closing date: 8th December
- Welcoming New Members
- Changes to DBS fees

WMCA Partner Updates
- Partner Feature - Meet Grace Cares
- Citation: Managing Short Term Sickness
- Which NVQ: Dept of Education - Funding for new staff

Latest Sector News & Updates

Upcoming Events/Webinars

Is your Care Service "Effective"?

Our popular Registered Managers Conference is back in January!

Following on from the previous themes of are you Well Led, Safe, and Caring, we will continue with exploring CQC themes with 'Is your service Effective?'

New for this event:

In response to feedback from previous conferences, we will be offering separate Care Home and Home Care streams for the afternoon sessions to address the differences in the provision of care for different types of services.

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Find out more & book your place

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Winter Competition

Winter Seasonal Decorations Competition 2024 - entries close on 8th December!

To celebrate the winter season this year, we want to recognise some of the fantastic decorations or traditions that are present in residential settings and service users homes.

This is a great opportunity to get creative with your service users and use this competition to come up with some amazing seasonal decorations!

Click opposite to find out more and how to submit your entry.

New WMCA Members

Last month we welcomed the following new members:-

Maaya Care Ltd (Home Care - Walsall)
Brightside Carers Ltd (Home Care - Wolverhampton)
Nexus Care Services (Home Care - Birmingham)
Digby Manor Residential Care Home (Residential Care - Birmingham
Acorn Care Home (Residential Care - Birmingham)
Pleasant Valley Care (Home Care - Oldbury)

These organisations now have access to a comprehensive suite of support services provided by the WMCA that will allow them to concentrate on providing top quality care.

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DBS

Important update to DBS prices

As mentioned in previous Newsletters etc., the DBS increased their prices from yesterday (2nd December 2024). This means that you’ll be paying more for DBS Checks, regardless of who you conduct them through.

Unfortunately, as we have no control over this price increase, we have been regrettably forced to increase our own DBS fees accordingly and details of the new fees are on the link opposite.