social care

2 Dec 2025

‘Really informative’ guide to finding direct care

Want to find out how you can take more control over your care or get support as a carer? Ealing Council has created an …

17 Apr 2025

Big improvements to adult day centre services

Ealing Council is making big improvements to its adult day centre services to provide better support for local people living with dementia, learning disabilities …

6 Feb 2025

Prime Minister meets council staff to discuss AI success

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met with staff members from Ealing Council on Tuesday (4 February) to talk about how the council is using …

20 Jan 2025

How AI is making more time for human contact

A new AI tool has helped a council team spend more time with the people it helps, by slashing the amount of time staff …

17 Dec 2024

Fostering: a carer’s story

“I always wanted to foster, I love children, and I have the patience to listen. I was often a mother figure to my younger …

2 Aug 2024

Careline service: continuing support

Earlier this year Ealing Council took the difficult but necessary decision to transfer its Careline telecare alarm monitoring service to be managed by colleagues …

4 Apr 2024

New ‘bright, comfortable’ dementia unit opens

A new customised residential dementia unit has been opened at Martin House in Southall. There are now 15 new beds for local people suffering …

1 Feb 2024

Council budget will ‘protect vital services in a time of crisis’

“It’s a sad reality that every single council in the country is currently having to do more with less money, and this is a …

20 Oct 2023

New learning opportunities for social care workforce

Ealing Council has started a new staff learning programme to help it recruit and retain the very best social workers and social care practitioners. …

15 May 2023

Fortnight to find out if you could foster too

Foster Care Fortnight begins today (15 May) and arrives at a time when more carers are needed to foster children in the borough. Could …

29 Sep 2022

Home care workers to get ‘real living wage’

As part of Ealing Council’s commitment earlier this year, it will be adopting the Real Living Wage (RLW) within the home care sector ahead …

2 Sep 2022

‘We are just one big, mad family’

“She is better than a mum,” said Jefferson as he looked at Julie on a sunny day in the garden when we visited a …

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