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Jean Tottie, Chair of the LSN, responds to the Panorama programme

Posted: 26th April 2012

Jean Tottie, Chair of the LSN, responded to the Panorama programme on 23 May in an interview for Publicsector.net

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Two Thirds of NHS Staff say they are lacking the skills to care for people with dementia

Posted: 16th December 2011

Today sees the publication of the RCP National Audit of Dementia

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Plans for greater scrutiny of elderly care in England

Posted: 12th December 2011

Plans to "radically drive up" standards of social care in England to protect the elderly have been unveiled by the government.

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Pilot sessions of Your Story Matters Training get a big thumbs up

Posted: 28th November 2011

2 pilot sessions of the one day introductory course have been run with staff in two care homes, evaluations are now in.

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Congratulations to Manchester City Council

Posted: 25th November 2011

Runners up in the Guardian awards 2011 Carers, families and communities category

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LSN joins the Dementia Action Alliance

Posted: 25th November 2011

The organisations signed up to this Declaration call on all families, communities and organisations to work with us to transform quality of life for the millions of people affected by dementia.

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Your Story Matters Film production

Posted: 25th November 2011

We were busy filming content again yesterday, this time in Leeds

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Home care often fails to meet older people’s basic human rights, says inquiry

Posted: 23rd November 2011

The final report of the Commission’s inquiry, 'Close to home: older people and human rights in home care', says hundreds of thousands [1] of older people lack protection under the Human Rights Act and calls for this legal loophole to be closed. It questions commissioning practices that focus on a rigid list of tasks, rather than what older people actually want, and that give more weight to cost than to an acceptable quality of care.

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Your Story Matters Training - What is a VLE?

Posted: 14th November 2011

Life Story Network directors spent Friday locked away in a secret location (not really) working on the content of the Your Story Matters online content

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