• Charity Dolls for Nurses & Carers
    • September 11, 2020

    Charity Dolls for Nurses & Carers

    To help raise funds to purchase PPE kits for NHS and carers, the Overnight Telecare Team Leader Alison, has welcomed three woven telecare colleagues to her Team! ReelyCreative are a local business who have produced hundreds of dressed rag dolls & teddies which are hand-painted by a nurse and her family. They were supporting the

  • A Positive Outcome
    • August 20, 2020

    A Positive Outcome

    Our Positive Behavioural Support approach receives recognition from the Learning Disability Community Treatment Team. Sunderland Care and Support recognise that all behaviour serves as a way of communicating a person’s needs or wishes. PBS provides a framework to underpin a care pathway which is conducive to promoting customer health and wellbeing. Here at Sunderland Care

  • “Don’t ever call us unskilled again!”
    • August 19, 2020

    “Don’t ever call us unskilled again!”

    “Don’t ever call us unskilled again!” is a recent report from Paradigm, gathering observations and insights of 118 Support Workers working with people who have learning disabilities and/or autism during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many years Social Care has been underinvested in, undervalued and invisible to many. Many members of the public are unaware of