1st June

Last week was a very busy week for Nadra and myself. It began on Sunday 23 May when Nadra and myself travelled to Leeds in preparation for a seminar we had arranged the following day. The seminar was again about the Care Quality Commission and the re registration process and it went very well.

We then set off for Manchester where we stayed the night before another seminar the next day. We hadn’t been to Manchester for several years and this was a really successful seminar. In passing I think I should say how grateful we are to Skills for Care, the National Skills Academy for Social Care and our sponsors for supporting us at all 12 seminars we have held already in 2010.

We haven’t finished yet and are currently planning more, the next one likely to be in Beverley in Yorkshire and one later in the year in Brighton. We are also arranging a meeting in Kent in July with the Kent care Homes Association.

When the seminar in Manchester finished Nadra and I headed off to Heathrow in preparation for an early morning flight on Wednesday to Sweden. We went to attend the Conference of the European Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing (EAHSA) of which National Care Association is a member. In future we will tell members about the conferences so that you can attend if you would like to.

These conferences are immensely useful for both learning from delegates from other Countries about what is happening in social care around the world and also EAHSA examines closely technological and innovative advances which I think we need to take much more notice of.

We enjoyed the conference and at the end we were able to spend a few hours as tourists in Stockholm