CareTech joined close to 1,500 care homes for Care Home Open Week to celebrate the achievements of the people living and working in the care sector.
Thousands of Care Homes all over the UK joined in, orchestrating activities ranging from hosting karaoke competitions to Bake Sales of their homemade treats to raise money for local charities. The participants ranged from schools and fostering agencies to suppliers to managers and healthcare professionals.
The event also involved musical events, handicrafts classes, and educational talks regarding the work and future of the social care sector. Other exciting activities that took place were mini sports days, quizzes, talent shows, afternoon teas, and even on-stage performances by local choirs. Other Homes even took the opportunity to collect donations for food and clothing banks.
The Cambian Team this year, along with the young people they support, gave out Drinks and home-grown Sunflowers to local walkers on the 28th of June, and on Thursday, the 30th of June, they hosted a garden party inviting different members of our local community. They had a local musician, Murdo Mitchell, performing his songs for the attendees at the garden party as well.
Care Home Open Week was a brilliant opportunity for care homes to reach out, connect and celebrate with their local and wider community. The importance of the Care Home Open Week is to have fun, communicate and reflect on all that goes into making the social care sector the marvel that it is.
The Care Home Open Week was set up to support causes and find new opportunities for the social care sector through engagement and collaboration. It allows the Care Home to keep in touch with individuals of the local community and have the local community know how their loved ones are being taken care of.
One of the primary objectives of the CARE4 programme is participating in our community. CARE4, Our Responsible Business Strategy, sets out the Group’s purpose-led method to being a responsible business. CARE4 guides us to ensure that we manage our business effectively, ethically, and profitably. It shows that social purpose and moral values are very important to us. CARE4 is a framework for transparency and ethical business as well as for our ESG (Environmental Social Governance) reporting.
Lorna Fearon supports this initiative as the Managing Director of Cambian East. “CareTech PLC is supporting Care Home Open Week. As part of our CARE4 Responsible Business Strategy, we are fully committed to supporting the communities that we operate in and would welcome our neighbors to connect with us. We are keen to showcase our capabilities and resilience, but most of all highlight the life-changing impact that Social Care has on some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
Participating in Care Home Open Week gave the opportunity to showcase various care homes locally, and in the process, raise their profile within the community and form new connections. The aim of Care Home Open Week 2022 is to link care homes all over the country with their communities. The mutual goal of schools and fostering agencies, businesses, managers, and healthcare professionals is interconnectivity. It also provides local leaders a fresh insight into the social care sector and the great work of your care home in your local area. Through events like this, we hope to remain in touch with our local community and raise awareness of their concerns and passions.
In social care, we understand that our purpose goes beyond caring for the needs of an individual and beyond caring for their physical and mental wellbeing. Feeling like one is a part of the community cannot be substituted for anything else and that feeling is the aim of everything we do here. We ensure that every individual’s voice is heard and make sure each opinion is valued and utilized.