The social care sector employs 1.6 million people caring for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.
We shine a light on the incredible value of the social care sector to society.
Care Sector Fundraising Ball
Saturday 24 April 2021 will mark the third annual Care Sector Fundraising Ball.
#SparkleforSocialCare
Building awareness of the incredible efforts of care workers during COVID-19.
Care Home Open Week
Encouraging local people to visit care homes in their community and to develop better relationships
Care Sector’s Got Talent
A fantastic virtual event to showcase the amazing talents of the social care sector
We are a volunteer-led group of leaders from across the social care sector. We do not seek to represent the care sector or care workers. Rather, we are focused on delivering positive stories and initiatives about the sector about which we all care so passionately.
Incredible Home Manage Rachael from Hollybank Rest Home has been nominated as a COVID hero by a wonderful family member of one of her residents.
'Rachael encourages and facilitates regular phone calls and FaceTime contact between residents and their families. She knows every resident’s family personally.
She goes above and beyond her duties to be both friend and family to her residents during these difficult times, she is always there to offer a listening ear or hold a hand, if someone such as my mother, is having a “ low “ day.'
We love sharing the incredible COVID hero nominations with you from the Great British Care Awards
Nominated your Social Care COVID Heroes here - http://ow.ly/g4C650DxFJF
#ThisisCare #ThankyouSocialCare #SparkleforSocialCare
Our COVID hero today is Kelly from Westmorland Homecare - South Lakes! Kelly put herself forward to oversee the COVID response back in Feb 2020, since then she has been at the forefront of COVID policy on top of her normal workload she has been keeping up with daily changing guidance, Kelly has developed a bespoke system to ensure staff feel supported, safe and looked after.
Kelly has been working extremely hard behind the scenes ensuring staff had access to PPE, providing extra training and reassurance. When there have been issues with last-minute sickness Kelly has been straight on her feet to ensure our clients feel supported and well looked after.
To Kelly, homecare is far more than a job it is a passion and way of life, she is a real credit to the whole community.
Kelly never realised the scale of the COVID work but has embraced it with a fantastic can-do attitude, a credit to Westmorland Homecare and the south lakes community.
Nominate your Social Care COVID Heroes with Great British Care Awards - http://ow.ly/g4C650DxFJF
#ThisisCare #ThankyouSocialCare #SparkleforSocialCare
Our COVID hero today is Kristina! Kristina is a single working mum, who throughout the pandemic has gone above and beyond for all service users and her colleagues.
Kristina gave up her own life as a single mum, with her little boy going to stay with his nan. She has worked so hard ensuring every single client had all their needs met in our community, working long shifts. She worked over Christmas 2020 having only a short time out to sit in the cold in a garden watching her 6-year-old son open Christmas pressies through a door.
We agree that Kristina deserves all the recognition for her hard work, dedication and commitment to the service users and her colleagues. She takes everything in her stride, caring for covid-19 patients risking her health just to ensure everyone else is cared for.
Nominate your Social Care COVID Heroes with gbcareawards - http://ow.ly/g4C650DxFJF
#ThisisCare #ThankyouSocialCare #SparkleforSocialCare
Another fantastic COVID Hero Julie from The Orchards Residential Home showing how incredible Care Home managers have been throughout the pandemic.
Julie is a registered nurse and is a manager of a residential home, but has upskilled staff by utilising the community nurses so that insulin can be completed in house to reduce foot traffic from external parties.
Julie motivates the team by demonstrating and she is knowledgeable. Julie is fair to the staff team and always has a solution to the problem. Julie puts the safety and wellbeing of the residents and staff first on every occasion. When vaccines were introduced to our home, she completed additional training so that she could vaccinate alongside the nurses in attendance. I had the privilege of being someone she vaccinated against coronavirus. Throughout the pandemic, Julie has lead from the front and guided the team. She has arranged train the trainer courses in infection control, safeguarding, and health and safety. Julie would work 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year if The Orchards needed it, and her commitment motivates the team to be the best they can be. With Julie in pole position with all guidance from PHE and the government followed, the service has been without coronavirus for 10 months. She is an inspiration and I aspire to be as successful as her.
Shout about your Social Care COVID Heroes, nominate now on Great British Care Awards website - http://ow.ly/g4C650DxFJF #ThisisCare #ThankyouSocialCare #SparkleforSocialCare #championingsocialcare
It’s been a very challenging year but our staff have risen to that challenge and gone above and beyond. They’ve supported each other and the people in our care through some difficult times throughout 2020, something that we are proud to have seen and it’s why we can truly say that they are all stars. We thank you, our staff, for everything you do which ultimately not only makes a difference to the lives of the people we support, but also their families.
Wishing everyone all the best for a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year.
#Kisimulgroup #kisimulstars #amazingstaff #amazingpeople #thankyoucare #proudtocare #sparkleforsocialcare #festivegreetings #Christmas2020
Our Honorary Activities Assistant Jim will be selecting our Instagram images for the rest of December!📸
#takeover #instagram #personcentered #ambassador #sparkleforsocialcare #majesticare #thisiscare #blenheimhouse #christmas artsincarehomes napaactivity
We have had a lovely day of Christmas Card making today, our arts classes encourage dexterity skills and are always a great opportunity to make new friends!
#majesticare #blenheimhouse #sparkleforsocialcare #thisiscare #christmas #art #dementiacare #crafts napaactivity
This week tag and wear something to sparkle and celebrate the care workers who look after residents in care homes and those who provide care in people’s own homes.
Celebrate care workers you know who have gone above and beyond!
#SparkleforSocialCare
.#SPARKLEFORSOCIALCARE STARTS TODAY.
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.'Sparkle for Social Care launches national week of sparkling to shine a light on the UK’s care workers.
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.Established at the height of the global pandemic, the #SparkleforSocialCare social media campaign was launched to highlight the phenomenal dedication, hard work and continued sparkle shown by the UK’s 1.6million Care Workers.
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.Considered to be a huge success and with a continued momentum, Championing Social Care, Sparkle for Social Care’s umbrella organisation are once again asking the nation to get involved and this time launching a national week of #SparkleforSocialCare.
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.From the 14th – 20th of December, they are asking the UK to join this fabulous social media campaign by simply wearing something that sparkles and sharing their photos across social media using the hashtag #SparkleforSocialCare.' https://buff.ly/3gMP7OV
#sparkleforsocialcare has returned!
Grab your tinsel, twinkling fairy lights and anything that sparkles.
We want to recognise and show our deep appreciation to all care workers who have worked tirelessly to support others this year.
We are ready to #sparkleforsocialcare the Gold Care way!
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#goldcarehomes #gch #socialcare #sparkleforsocialcare #sparkle #championingsocialcare
For the 13th day of Christmas, we have a longer post, as we wanted to give wonderful Linda a member of the housekeeping team birtleyhouse_nursinghome an opportunity to #SparkleforSocialCare
‘During the day she goes around the building collecting the laundry, and always finds time to chat with the any of the residents, one particular lady has taken a real shine to Linda and calls her the My Lady in Red. This is due to the bright colour of her uniform.
When feeling in need of someone extra to talk to this Lady will ask to see the lady in red.
This resident will also come looking for Linda and always asked her to come and sit with her and chat and a have a coffee with her. Which she does happily. This resident can become distressed, but as soon as she sees Linda she smiles and appears to calm.
Linda goes each day she on shift to spent time with this lady, When Linda has time off the residents always remarks that she has not seen her and then Linda explains about days her days off and she tell her not to have any so she can see her every day. Linda will some days oversees her having lunch and will sit with her in her room or the lounge. Just keeping her company. This resident says to others that Linda is “Her Lady in Red” my friend.
On days when this lady needs more support Linda will wrap her up in a coat and go outside to walk around the ground, or even just around the home, which the resident really enjoys and this show in her face, this is never as issue for Linda she like to see this person happy and content.’
Linda is truly #sparklingforsocialcare
On the 12th day of Christmas, we are shining a light on the Duncan Edwards Foundation and Museum who are featuring one of the amazing dudleytownfc kits, which proudly show the #SparkleforSocialCare logo! Dudley Town FC is so proud to support #SparleforSocialCare and championing Care Workers across the UK.
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