(8/8) With over 500 sign ups and counting, it's fantastic to now have a space where domiciliary care workers can exchange peer-based advice, rooted as ever in a commitment to the highest quality of relational care. The conversation continues in our online group...

(7/8) Lots to say about managing our own wellbeing...

(6/8) How can we sensitively manage risks to a person's physical safety whilst making a minimal impact on their overall quality of life? Here we learned that Wiltshire Police offer yellow 'Dementia Safeguarding Wristbands'...

(5/8) How can we strike a balance between getting all the practical bits done and ensuring our visits genuinely support someone's emotional wellbeing, when there's often scant time to play with? Does that balance even exist?...

(4/8) What can we do to help fill someone's time in the long gaps between visits? Here we learned that people supported by domiciliary care workers may benefit from the concept of 'meaningful occupation' being adopted from our colleagues in residential care...

(3/8) As chosen by 24 #homecare workers, today's topic was 'supporting people who live alone with dementia'. We covered a lot of ground:

(2/8) It was wonderful to bring together thirteen #domiciliarycare workers from around the country at our regular online meetup this afternoon

Thanks, Duncan. It's great to see more voices coming through from our community. There are many, many stories to tell.

#homecare #domiciliarycare #communitycare #socialcare #adultsocialcare #carework #careworker #homecareworker #careprofessional #carer #caregiver #paidcaregiver #keyworker #respect #recognition #clapforcarers #status #understanding

Members of our peer support community are coming up with more and more contributions, such as the one above. We hope that our ground-level views of the status quo might contribute something meaningful to the urgent national conversation about #adultsocialcare.

- The peer support network available via Homecare Workers' Group: www.homecarewg.org

- Unison, which is now doing strong work on behalf of migrant care workers: www.unison.org.uk

- The UK Modern Slavery Helpline which is run by the charity Unseen: www.modernslaveryhelpline.org

- The Work Rights Centre, a charity that specifically supports migrant workers: www.workrightscentre.org

Other helpful resources include:

- Autonomy's database of sponsoring employers: autonomy.work/care-visa-sp... (