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ASC
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Connecting people to support
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Assistive Technology, Occupational Therapy and Equipment
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Assistive Technology (Careline Telecare)
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Completing the benefits section: reduce, avoid, prevent, none
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Guidance for Specialist and Community Equipment in Care Homes
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Just Checking activity assessment tool
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Oysta Devices – hospital discharge
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Roles and responsibilities, FAQs, leaflets and case studies
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Step 1: Referral
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Step 2: Assessment and Installation
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Step 3: Monitoring and Response and Cost
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Step 4: Maintenance and Review
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Step 5: Change in Circumstances/Ending the Service
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What is AT and Pre-referral Engagement
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Zoom guides
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Occupational Therapy
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Eligibility criteria
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How Adult Social Care Occupational Therapists can support you
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How to request support from OT
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What do they offer?
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What is Occupational Therapy?
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Bereavement
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Bereavement and registering a death
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Bereavement/ End of Life Guidance for Practitioners
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Public Health Funerals
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Care and Support at Home
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Reablement
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Henderson Court
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Information on reablement for social care practitioners
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Reablement and Enhanced Reablement Purchase Orders – Mosaic Guidance
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Referrals to Henderson Court (Reablement Flats)
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Who is reablement for and where can it be provided?
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Support at Home Pilot
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Making a referral and contact details
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What the pilot offers
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Family Group Conferencing
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Contacts & Adult FGC UK Network
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Stage 1: The referral
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Stage 2: Preparation
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Stage 3: Conference (Plan and Agreement)
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Stage 3: The Conference
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Stage 4 & 5: Implementation and review of the plan
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The Family Group Conference model
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What is a family group conference?
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Hospital discharge
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Carers and hospital discharge
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Discharge alert protocol
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Homelessness and hospital discharge
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Process for discharge and pathways
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Reablement flats
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Review of placements following hospital discharge
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Safeguarding in hospital
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Urgent Community Response (AKA Rapid Response)
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Virtual Wards
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Housing Matters
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Home Improvement Services
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Camden Home Improvement Service update
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Housing Options
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Adult Pathway services (Homelessness)
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Care and Support for Homelessness
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Contact details for Extra Care
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Easy Read
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Extra care housing
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Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service
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Mental Health Pathway referrals
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Mental Health Supported Living Pathway
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Mora Burnet House - changes to provision
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Referral process for Extra Care housing
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Key Safes
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Assessment
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Community Equipment Update
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Key safe codes
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Key safe codes (practitioner's responsibility)
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Location of key safes
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Ordering a key safe
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Protection of Property
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Best interest decisions
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Camden's role and responsibility
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Capacity and consent
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What is considered moveable property
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Working with housing management
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Team Around Me
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After the TAM meeting
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How to organise a TAM meeting
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More information and support
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The four principles of Team Around Me
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The TAM meeting
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What is Team Around Me?
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When to call a Team Around Me meeting
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Tenancies
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Ending a tenancy
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Starting a tenancy
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Mental Health
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Additional Support Services
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Additional Support Services
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Children’s Safeguarding and Social Work and Camden & Islington Mental Health Foundation Trust Joint Protocol
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Introduction
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Purpose and scope of the protocol
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Section 117 Aftercare
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Discharge from Section 117
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Financial assessments, direct payment and personal health budgets
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Planning, assessments and care plan for S117 aftercare
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Review of people subject to Section 117
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What is S117
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Who is eligible for Section 117
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Suicide Prevention
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Suicide prevention services and helpful resources
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The importance of direct conversation
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The Zero Suicide Alliance key facts
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Urgent help for residents of Camden and Islington in crisis
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Money Matters
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Benefits and Welfare Rights
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Benefits Advice
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Referrals
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What is the Welfare Rights Service?
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Benefits information and advice
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Council Tax discretionary reductions
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DWP contact details and support in Camden
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Energy efficiency services
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Universal Credit Managed Migration
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Where people can get help for Universal Credit Managed Migration
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Debt Management: Breathing Space
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Eligibility Criteria for Mental Health Crisis scheme
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How Breathing Space works
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How to make a referral
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Nominated Point of Contact
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What is Breathing Space?
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Financial Support
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Charitable and Hardship Support
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Cost of Living Awards
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Debt advice
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Health Exemption Services Communications Toolkits
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Help with energy costs
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Household Support Fund (HSF) Awards
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How to access emergency funds
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Gambling Harm and Support
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Gambling Harm and Support
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Paying for Care
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Choice and affordability
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Continuing Healthcare and Joint Funding
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Camden Integrated Adult Service
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Disputes
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E-learning
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Eligibility for joint funding
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Forms and CHC documents
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NHS CHC delivery model
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Overview
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Process for joint funding
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Direct Payments
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Care management and direct payments
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Direct payment support services
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Direct Payments FAQ's
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How to use a direct payment
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Payment methods
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Payment methods (Managed payroll)
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Risk management
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What is a direct payment?
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No recourse to public funds
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NRPF network
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Paying for care
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Deferred payment scheme
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Financial assessment
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Non-residential care
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Residential/Nursing Care
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Self-funders
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Personal Finance Service
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Appointees, Deputy, and LPA
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Contact the PFS team
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How to refer to PFS
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Regular reviews of finances
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What is the Personal Finance Service (PFS)
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Working with the PFS team
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Sensory Needs
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Blind and partially sighted - further support
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Blind and partially sighted – hints and tips for home visits
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D/deaf and hard of hearing residents - hints and tips for home visits
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Sensory Needs Service - Sight Loss
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Sensory Needs Service – D/deaf residents
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What is the Sensory Needs Service?
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Shared Lives
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How carers are employed and paid
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Referral process
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What is shared lives?
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Who is it for and is it safe?
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Who shared lives cannot support
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Who supports the placed person
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Substance Misuse Service: Change Grow Live
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Service information and referrals
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Transition from Integrated Camden Drug Service
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Support in wider community
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Camden Advice Network
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What is the Camden Advice Network?
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What support is available?
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Who can help?
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Cost of Living & food support
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Cost of Living resources
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Find Food Support in Camden
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Scam Prevention
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Age UK's Scam Prevention Service
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Seasonal Support
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Keeping socially connected over winter
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Keeping warm over winter
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Millman Street Community Centre
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Support during summer
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Social Prescribing
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Examples of support connected to
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Further information
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Referrals to Care navigation and social prescribing service
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Social prescribing in Camden
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What is Social Prescribing?
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Who may benefit from social prescribing support
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Stroke Association Communication Support Service
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How to make contact
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Stroke Association Camden Communication Support Group information
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What does the Stroke Association offer
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Support When it Matters (SWIM)
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SWIM entry requirement and referral forms
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What SWIM do?
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WISH Plus
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How to make a referral to WISH Plus
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What is WISH Plus?
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Practice Guidance Site for Other Departments
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Practice Guide Accessibility Statement
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Contact us and Complaints Procedure
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How accessible is this website?
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How to use this website?
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Non-Accessible Content
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Preparation of this accessibility statement
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Technical information about this website’s accessibility
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What we are doing to improve accessibility
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Site Search
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Supporting you in your role
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CQC Assurance
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All ASC service check on 12 November
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Chris and Avril's message of 31 Oct about CQC preparations
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CQC Daily Breakfast Briefings from Jess McGregor
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CQC report and rating published on 28 February 2025
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FAQs
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How we prepared for the CQC inspection
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Jess McGregor message on 26th September about CQC inspection date
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Post CQC inspection Updates
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Self-assessment
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Video messages about preparations for CQC assurance
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What is CQC assurance?
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Induction
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Essential policies and procedures
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Flexible Working Framework
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Learning and Development
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New starters understanding their role responsibilities
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Welcome
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Wellbeing support for New Starters
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What Matters and Mosaic training guidance for new starters
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Learning and development
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ASC Open House Sessions
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British Journal of Social Work
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Continuing professional development
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Essential learning
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iReflect
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Learning and development principles
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Qualifications
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Research in Practice and more self-directed learning
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Social Work Registration/ Re-registration
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Supervision and management development
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Quality Assurance
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Accountability
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Concerns, compliments, and complaints
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Equity and Equality
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External Audit Findings
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Governance
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Our approach to quality assurance
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Our principles
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Our Quality Tools
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QA e-newsletters
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What does high quality support mean?
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Social Work Education and ASYE
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ASYE Resources
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Being a Practice Educator
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Understanding the Professional Social Work Educator role
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What is ASYE?
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Supervision
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Building relationships
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General tools and resources
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Legal literacy and recording
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Policy
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Professional standards
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Reflective Practice
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Remote supervision
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Wellbeing and self-care resources and tools
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Workforce Strategy
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Implementation of the ASC Workforce Strategy
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What Matters to people
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Advocacy
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Court of Protection 1.2 Representative (CoP)
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Advocacy
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Eligibility
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IMCA: Out of Borough Referrals
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Independent Care and Support Advocacy (ICSA)
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Independent Health Complaints Advocacy (IHCA)
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Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
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Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
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Non-statutory Advocacy
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Paid Relevant Person’s Representative (PRPR)
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Referral process
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What is Advocacy?
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Care reviews
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Action to take with identified changes
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Arranging a review
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Identifying changes
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Purpose of a review
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Quality of provisions
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Reviews and risk management
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Carers
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Carers Action Plan
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Carers personal budgets and direct payments
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Carers support plans
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Conversations/Reviews roles and responsibilities
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Preparing for carers conversations
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Short breaks and replacement care
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Staff who are carers
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Using Mosaic and the carers eligibility criteria
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Working with carers
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Young carers and support available
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Co-production Matters
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Co-production Framework
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Co-production Toolkit
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Identity Matters
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Autism
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Autism lead practitioner drop-ins
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Autism-informed employment support
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Camden autism partnership board
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Camden autism plan
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Recording Autism on Mosaic
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Resources and information
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Services for autistic people and those supporting autistic people
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Social work with autistic adults
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What is autism?
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Collecting ‘LGBTQ data’ on sexual orientation and gender identity
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Information for the people we work with (Easy Read version)
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Information for the people we work with (Plain English)
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What do I say? Asking the question
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What if people don’t want to say?
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What is LGBTQ Data?
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What is the process for capturing this data on mosaic?
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Why are we capturing this data?
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Why gender and not sex?
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Disability Awareness
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Helpful resources
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Social model vs medical model of disability continued
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The importance of using the right language
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Understanding the Social Model vs Medical Model of disability
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What is a disability?
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Identity Matters: Learning Sessions
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Identity Matters: Webinar 1
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Identity Matters: Webinar 2
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Identity Matters: Webinar 3
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Identity Matters: Webinar 4
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Putting Identity at the Heart of Practice: Tools
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LGBTQ+ awareness
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Challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ people and communities
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Impact of hate crime
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LGBTQ+ Language Matters
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Reporting Hate Crime
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Support for staff – Rainbow Network
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Types of discrimination
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Useful resources and organisations
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What you can do to support LGBTQ+ colleagues
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Neurodiversity
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Neurodiversity resources
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Wellbeing passport
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What is Neurodiversity?
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What you can do to support neurodiverse colleagues
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Why Neurodiversity matters
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Zero Tolerance to Racist Abuse
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Camden's approach to Zero Tolerance
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Useful resources
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What is racism?
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Language matters
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Why language matters?
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Mental Capacity and DoLS
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Best Interests
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COP 3 Assessment of capacity
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
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DoLS - key elements
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Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
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Mental Capacity Act 2005
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Mental capacity assessments
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Mosaic and Recording
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Case Recording
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Data subject rights
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Freedom of Information
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Impact of case recording
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Introduction to case recording
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Involving adults and carers
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Personal details
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The use of case records
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What professional case records should look like
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Why record?
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Mosaic
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ASC Mover and Leaver Process
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Case Note Deletion
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E-learning course
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File Retention Rules
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HIE
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Levels of access and training
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Live Mosaic Updates
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Mosaic Audit
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Mosaic Guidance
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Mosaic Support
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New Starters: What Matters Practice Training
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Qlik Access
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Requesting training and access
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Restricted records
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Shared Lives Guide
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Recording meetings
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Recording of meetings
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Use of Magic Notes
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Positive risk taking
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Case Study (Fluctuating Need)
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Fluctuating need
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Identifying risk
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Positive risk taking and mental capacity
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Risk management
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Risk management plan
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Safeguarding
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Camden MASH Team
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MASH Referral pathways
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The MASH Team
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What MASH does
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Cuckooing
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Cuckooing Overview
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How to respond
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Spotting the signs
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What is cuckooing?
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Domestic Violence and Abuse
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British Sigh Language - National Domestic Abuse Helpline
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Camden Safety Net
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Coercive Control - Hourglass
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Domestic violence and abuse
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Other useful numbers and information
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SignHealth Domestic Abuse Service
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Silent Solutions
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Support for migrant victims of domestic abuse with No Recourse to Public Funds
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Suzy Lamplugh Trust
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High Risk
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Herbert Protocol Risk Reduction Tool
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High Risk Panel
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London Fire Brigade Home Fire Safety Visits
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Missing Vulnerable Adults
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Referral Process
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Modern Slavery
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Indicators of modern slavery
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Modern slavery reports and data
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Modern slavery resources
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The National Referral Mechanism
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What is modern slavery?
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Your duty
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Prevent
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Referrals to Channel
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Spotting the signs
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What is Channel
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What is Prevent
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What training is available?
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Your duty
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Safeguarding Duties and Procedures
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Camden Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board
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Forms and Templates
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Guidance for care providers
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Making Safeguarding Personal
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Quality concerns
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Safeguarding and the Human Rights Act
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Safeguarding Framework and Practice Guidance
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Section 42 Enquiry: The four stage process
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What is a Section 42 Enquiry?
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What is safeguarding?
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Who do safeguarding duties apply to?
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Safeguarding Learning and Development Group
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2 February 2021
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2019
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3 November 2020
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30 June 2020
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4 February 2020
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Aims of the SLDG
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SARS and Learning from Cases
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CLDS Safeguarding Enquiry - AA
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How to refer
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Introduction to SARS
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What happens in a SAR
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What is the purpose of a SAR
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Self neglect
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Clutter Image Rating Tool Guidance
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Good practice
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High risk panel
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Key agencies
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Mental capacity and self neglect
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Referrals to Environmental Health
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Self neglect
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Self neglect and hoarding
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Trauma-informed Practice
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A resource for trauma-informed practice
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Camden and Islington Trauma-Informed Network
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Developing a Trauma Curious Mindset in ASC
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Useful resources
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What is Trauma-informed Practice?
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Workforce support
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What Matters: Our Approach in Camden
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Case Studies and Stories of Change
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Camden Learning Disability Group take part in June’s London Open Garden’s Weekend
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Camden OT's Oversee the Installation of Wash/Dry Toilets in Camden Day Centres
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Finding culturally sensitive support with Shared Lives
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Michaela's Family Group Conferencing story
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New members at the Camden Disability Job Hub
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Paul's story
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Rebecca talks about her time as an OT in Camden Learning Disability Service
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Unity Works trainees providing food parcels for Camden residents
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Unpaid Carer supported by Camden Carer’s Mental Health team at time of need
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What Matters in Practice
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Continuity Of Care
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Positive risk taking
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What Matters Overview
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What Matters: Three Conversations
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Capacity considerations
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Conversation 1
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Conversation 2
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Conversation 3
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Determining Eligibility
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Digital Care Plan
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Personal budgets, sign off and assurance
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Supported self-assessment forms
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Who is in Adult Social Care
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Adult Social Care Overview
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Supporting people, connecting communities
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Welcome to Adult Social Care in Camden
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ASC Neighbourhoods Service
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ASC Neighbourhood Quality Assurance Panel
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Contact the ASC Neighbourhoods Service
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Referrals to ASC
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Teams that make up ASC Neighbourhoods Service
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What the ASC Neighbourhoods Service does
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Who ASC Neighbourhoods Service support
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Your colleagues in the ASC Neighbourhoods Service
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CLDS
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CLDS: who we are and how we work
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What is a learning disability?
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What is CLDS? Who is in CLDS?
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Living a Good Life
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Contact details
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Employment
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Living a Good Life Opportunities Group
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Single point of access
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What is Living a Good Life?
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Wikis and how to get one set up for a person
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Making placements
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After making a placement
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Before making a placement
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Relevant contacts when making a placement
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Making referrals
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CLDS referrals
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Eligibility (adaptive functioning)
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Eligibility (cognitive functioning)
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Eligibility decision making process
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Resources
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Capabilities Statement
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Further resources
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Requesting easy read
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Mental Health Teams
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Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Service
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Camden Assertive Outreach Team
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Camden Recovery & Rehabilitation Services (North and South R & R)
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Complex Depression, Anxiety and Trauma Service
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Crisis Resolution Services
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Early Intervention Service (EIS)
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FOCUS
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Mental Health in Camden
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Personality Disorder Service
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Services for Ageing Mental Health