February 4, 2025
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4 February 2025

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This week...

  • WMCA Updates
    • Feedback on another successful WMCA Conference
    • Spring Providers Conference - CQC's New Environmental Sustainability assessment - 27th March
    • #ProvidersUnite - Day of Action - 25th February, London
  • WMCA Partner Updates
    • Ally Cares online demo of Sensor Based Falls technology - 6th Feb

    • Up to £50% matched funding for CAA members in West Midlands to implement home care monitoring technology.

    • Recruitment Opportunities and Support from Global Banking School (GBS)

    • IHSCM Upcoming Events - February 2025

    • A Smarter Approach to Recruitment: Quality Care Recruit!


  • Latest Sector News & Updates
  • Upcoming Events/Webinars

     
Feedback on another successful WMCA Conference

We hosted our first Registered Managers, Deputies and Seniors CPD Conference of 2025 on 23 rd  January, at the Bescot Stadium in Walsall.


This time we focused on the CQC Quality Statement ‘ Is your Care Service Effective ?’


It was an educational and informative day, with approx. 110 care providers attending and a number of providers on a waiting list!

All those who attended said it had been a very useful and worthwhile event.


Click opposite to find out more about the speakers and various topics addressed at the Conference.

Is Your Business Ready for the CQC's

New Environmental Sustainability assessment?

The CQC are introducing a  new quality statement focused on business's environmental sustainability , that care businesses will need to evidence from March 2025.

 

Our Spring Providers Conference will look at the proposed changes and how care providers can ensure they are committing to environmental sustainability as part of their business plan.

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The Day of Action is our chance to make our voices heard.

Providers Unite Day of Action

25th February 2025

10.30am - London, Westminster

The time to unite is now!


With 2,950 supporters signed up to Providers Unite, over 1,000 active members in our WhatsApp group, and full support from national representative organisations, we are standing together as a sector to demand action. 
 
Social care is at breaking point. NHS pressures are growing, and funding continues to fall short. 


#ProvidersUnite

     

Partner Updates

Ally Cares Demo

6 February 2025

11:00am - 12:00pm (on Zoom)

This is for Birmingham and Solihull residential care providers ONLY.


We are hosting Ally Cares demonstration session to allow care providers to learn about their platform, due to this being the chosen supplier for Sensor Based Falls technology funding that care providers can access from Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System (ICS).

     

Sector News

For all the latest news and updates relevant to the social care sector, check out the "News and Info" section of our website.

  • DHSC
  • CQC
  • Skills for Care
  • The Care Provider Alliance
  • And many, many more!

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WMCA Black Country Members  Safeguarding Adults Awareness Training

4th February 2025
9.30am-1:30pm
On Zoom


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Digital Surgery

5th February 2025

10.00-11.00 am

Virtual

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Ally Cares Demo

6th February 2025

11.00am-12.00pm

On Zoom

     

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