Caring Alliance brings you informative articles for care providers, registered managers, and care workers.
Hiring the right people in health and social care isn't just about finding someone with the right qualifications on paper. It's about making sure every person who walks through your…
19 August 2026
6 min read
A general explanation of pica, who it tends to affect, why it carries real physical risk, and how a diagnosis is actually reached.
14 August 2026
1 min read
The core checks and interview practices that make up safer recruitment when hiring people to work with children or vulnerable adults.
14 August 2026
1 min read
The children's home equivalent of independent organisational oversight, and what genuine (rather than paper) oversight looks like.
14 August 2026
1 min read
How the Nominated Individual's oversight role differs from the Registered Manager's day-to-day one, for providers registered as organisations.
How the Registered Manager role works for an Ofsted-registered children's home, and what the role is expected to deliver day to day.
14 August 2026
1 min read
What a Registered Manager is responsible for under CQC regulation, and why the role is registered separately from the provider itself.
14 August 2026
1 min read
Where the boundary sits between activities CQC regulates and support services that fall outside its scope.
14 August 2026
1 min read
What does diversity mean in health and social care? The definition of diversity in health and social care is the recognition, respect and valuing of the differences between people, both…
Cuckooing, a relatively new phenomenon within the safeguarding field, has captured the attention of both policymakers and community strategists. It is the twisted practice of a criminal who exploits someone…
14 August 2026
2 min read
A primary survey, also known as the “primary assessment”, is a structured approach to assessing an individual’s health in an emergency. This procedure is normally in accordance with the mnemonic…
14 August 2026
3 min read
You may be wondering how this train-the-trainer qualification relates to the old PTTLLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) award. Our course has been carefully mapped to the…
14 August 2026
2 min read
