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May 2022

If you provide a care service and will be celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next week, please tag us in any images, we would love to see them!

To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, our offices will be closed on Thursday 2 June, Friday 3 June, and Monday 6 June 2022. Therefore, our offices will be reopening on Tuesday 7 June. You can still report a concern or give feedback using our online forms.

We are postponing the Self Assessment of Service Statement (SASS) until 2023

We are postponing the Self Assessment of Service Statement (SASS) until 2023. This decision has been made to support services at this difficult time. We intend to open the SASS for completion at the same time in forthcoming years – January running into February. Further information can be found on our website.

Challenges for childcare and play settings

We are aware that many childcare and play settings are facing significant challenges in recruiting, retaining, or deploying their staff team. To find out more about the support and advice available to these services as we deal with the continued impact of the pandemic, please visit our website.

Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – Draft monitoring and reporting strategy

We are currently consulting on our draft monitoring and reporting strategy for the new Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) alongside Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and Estyn HMI. Our draft strategy describes how we will discharge our responsibilities for monitoring and reporting LPS. This will inform Welsh Ministers, and people in Wales, how LPS is working in practice and help keep standards high. We welcome your feedback on this draft strategy and have developed a short survey to capture your views.

National Advisory Board

Ruth Hussey OBE, the chair of our National Advisory Board has recently welcomed 7 new members to the Board, helping to provide a voice for people in the way we work.  The Board helps us by giving advice and recommendations on how we can improve care and social services in Wales for people, through better regulation, inspection and review. Further details about the membership of the Board will be published on our website in due course.

We welcome your views about Cafcass Cymru

Have you received a service from Cafcass Cymru in relation to public family law applications? If so, we would like to hear about your experience.  Find out how to get involved by visiting our website.

CIW Data tool

This interactive data visualisation tool provides information on the number of services and places regulated with us. Have you used the CIW Data Tool?  If so, please take a moment to give us your feedback by completing this survey.

We welcome your views about social services in Wrexham County Borough Council

In June 2022 we will be undertaking a Performance Evaluation Inspection (PEI) of the social services department in Wrexham County Borough Council If you receive care and support services from Wrexham County Borough Council, we would like to hear about your experiences. We would be grateful if you could complete this survey and give us your feedback by 15 June 2022. If you are a care provider within Wrexham County Borough Council, we would also welcome your feedback. Please complete this survey by 15 June.

We are recruiting! Come and join our organisation! 

Interested in working for us? We are currently recruiting for a number of support officers across Wales. Come and join our team! Further information can be found on our website.   You can also sign up to receive our jobs alert  for when further vacancies become available. Be the first to know!

Welsh Government and other news

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales National Review of Patient Flow (Stroke Pathway). HIW are currently undertaking a national review of patient flow. The focus of the review is to assess the impact that patient flow challenges may have on the quality and safety of patients awaiting assessment, receiving treatment, through to discharge from hospital services. To support their review HIW have launched a survey aimed at registered providers (Care Homes, Nursing & Residential & Domiciliary Support Services) and would be grateful if providers could take part by completing the survey.

New digital learning resources for infection prevention and control

Social Care Wales (SCW) have developed a set of digital learning modules to help anyone involved in the social care or early years and childcare sector know how to behave to reduce the spread of infections.

Find out more about the modules and how to access them here.

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