1. Birmingham City Council - Care Provider Cost Pressure Survey DEADLINE 24 September 2025 (Information for all Birmingham Contracted Care Providers)

2. REMINDER Birmingham City Council – Home Support Provider Information Events – Introduction of Citizen Feedback Adjustment to Quality Scores CHANGE OF DATES 22 and 25 September 2025 (Information for Birmingham Contracted Home Support Providers)

3. Birmingham City Council - Perry Barr Neighbourhood Network Schemes (NNS) Quarter 1 Report 2025 – Video (Information for all Birmingham Providers)

4. Birmingham City Council - World Alzheimer's Month 2025 (Information for all Birmingham Providers)

5. Birmingham City Council Public Health - The Delicate Mind: Tuberculosis—What You Need to Know (Information for all Providers)

6. REMINDER Skills for Care Updates for September 2025 (Information for all Birmingham and Solihull Providers)

7. REMINDER NHS Birmingham and Solihull (BSOL) Training Hub September 2025 (Information for Birmingham and Solihull Care Homes)

8. REMINDER Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust - Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Quarterly IPC Champions Forum 18 September 2025 (Information for Birmingham and Solihull Care Homes)

9. REMINDER Clouds End – Free Multi Agency Hoarding Awareness Training 24 September 2025 (Information for all Providers)

10. Birmingham Aging Well - Help Us Plan How We Make Birmingham a Better Place for Our Older Adults 30 September 2025 (Information for Providers Delivering Services to People Over 50

1. Birmingham City Council - Care Provider Cost Pressure Survey DEADLINE 24 September 2025 (Information for all Birmingham Contracted Care Providers)

As part of the Council’s 2025 approach to gathering evidence from care providers to inform our 2026 fee uplift proposals, we are seeking a range of feedback and information about last year’s fee increases, current and emerging cost pressures, and sustainability risks across the sector.

To facilitate this you are invited to complete an MS Form questionnaire and submit this to us by 12.00 midday on Wednesday, 24 September 2025.

N.B. there are two questionnaires, one for care homes and one for home support, supported living and extra care providers. The questionnaires are the same, but please complete the one appropriate to your service provision type. If your service is dual registered, e.g. a care home which also provides home support, and you can of course submit two questionnaires if the information you wish to submit is service type specific.

We want to assure you that any information you provide will be viewed by the Council only. Data shall be anonymised, aggregated and analysed. If the Council decides to publish or share any of the data or analysis this will be done on an anonymised basis and no individual information or comments will be attributed to a specific company or organisation.

Please see the links to the questionnaires below. Should you have queries in relation to the survey please email costofcare@birmingham.gov.uk

Care homes survey -

https://forms.microsoft.com/e/3r2LCHm7nA

Home support, Supported Living, and Extra Care survey -

https://forms.office.com/e/HbBsFsV2H6

2. REMINDER Birmingham City Council – Home Support Provider Information Events – Introduction of Citizen Feedback Adjustment to Quality Scores CHANGE OF DATES 22 and 25 September 2025 (Information for Birmingham Contracted Home Support Providers)

Birmingham City Council will be reintroducing the citizen feedback adjustment to provider quality scores from 24 September 2025. The quality score is used as part of the package of care allocation process on the CareMatch Portal to identify the highest quality offer. At these sessions we will remind providers of why we are introducing the citizen feedback adjustment and will explain the methodology to be used. We look forward to seeing you there.

Please save one of the following dates and times and click on a link below to register in advance to attend.

PLEASE NOTE THESE DATES HAVE CHANGED, apologies for any inconvenience caused:

22 September 2025 11:00am – 11:45am

Home Support Provider Information event 22 September 2025

25 September 2025 12:30pm – 1:15pm

Home Support Provider Information event 25 September 2025

Information about how the quality score will be calculated going forward will also be available on our Shaping the Market webpages here;

Quality monitoring visits | Birmingham City Council

3. Birmingham City Council - Perry Barr Neighbourhood Network Schemes (NNS) Quarter 1 Report 2025 – Video (Information for all Birmingham Providers)

Perry Bar Neighbourhood Network Schemes team have created a video as part of their Quarter 1 report for 2025, introducing the team and sharing some of the work they do. The video is also a chance for partners to put names and faces together, while seeing some of the great assets Perry Barr has to support people in their area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cxn4fh0VX0

Neighbourhood Network Schemes (NNS) are funded by Adult Social Care, Birmingham City Council to develop the support people’s needs to lead happy, healthy, independent lives in their own homes and communities. There is a Neighbourhood Network in each of Birmingham’s 10 constituencies, most of which are run by a range of voluntary and community sector organisations.

For more information on NNS please see our website

https://birmingham.connecttosupport.org/prevention-and-communities/neighbourhood-network-schemes-nns/#/content/content/edit/1517

4. Birmingham City Council - World Alzheimer's Month 2025 (Information for all Birmingham Providers)

September is World Alzheimer’s Month, a global campaign to raise awareness of dementia and challenge stigma. This year the theme is “Ask about Dementia” and “Ask about Alzheimer’s”, encouraging open conversations to support early diagnosis and reduce stigma.

World Alzheimer’s Day is observed on 21 of September 2025, alongside the release of the World Alzheimer Report by Alzheimer’s Disease International, which this year focuses on dementia rehabilitation.

dementia rehabilitation

Throughout September, there are various events, activities, and initiatives taking place across Birmingham to mark the occasion. For details, click on the link below and visit the dementia hub (link below) at Birmingham City Council for bitesize information about dementia from how to reduce your risk, why diagnosis is important and tips on how to talk to your GP as well as how you can get help with daily living or help to stay in your home. In addition to information, advice and support for carers and signposts to free awareness sessions for anyone supporting a family member or friend living with dementia, for details use the link below;

click here

Dementia Hub

click here

Please share this with citizens and their families.

5. Birmingham City Council Public Health - The Delicate Mind: Tuberculosis—What You Need to Know (Information for all Providers)

In this episode of The Delicate Mind, (see link below) Dr Martin Dedicoat sheds light on Tuberculosis (TB)—its history, causes, and impact. TB is a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body. Though serious, TB is curable with early diagnosis and proper treatment.

episode of The Delicate Mind

Anyone can get TB, but some people are more at risk, including:

• Those living with someone who has active TB
• People from countries where TB is common (e.g. South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe)
• People with weakened immune systems (e.g. HIV, chemotherapy, transplant patients)
• People who are homeless or living in overcrowded housing
• People who smoke, drink heavily, or use drugs
• Healthcare workers and others exposed through their jobs

If you think you might be at risk, please contact your GP.

6. REMINDER Skills for Care Updates for September 2025 (Information for all Birmingham and Solihull Providers)

Further information about this subject has been circulated to providers. If you don’t have a copy, please email marketintelligence@birmingham.gov.uk

7. REMINDER NHS Birmingham and Solihull (BSOL) Training Hub September 2025 (Information for Birmingham and Solihull Care Homes)

The Birmingham and Solihull Training Hub Website is for those working in a primary or social care role in the Solihull / Birmingham area. The information is for students looking for support with career development or a visitor wanting to find out more.

Please use this link for training, further information and booking:

Social Care – BSol Training hub

All training events are listed in the calendar section. You can also contact the training hub by email bsol.traininghub@nhs.net.

The next sessions are:

12 September 2025 IPC - Mouth Care Matters - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

15 September 2025 Care Association Alliance Language Training Webinar - 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

16 September 2025 BSol Nurses and Clinical Leads Network for Nurses Working in Social Care - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

16 September 2025 The DSPT and Data Protection in General for Home Care - 10:00 am - 11:00 am

16 September 2025 Management of Biofilms in Non-Healing Wounds - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

16 September 2025 Nursing Workforce Forum - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

17 September 2025 Nursing Education Forum - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

18 September 2025 Continuing Health Care (CHC) Fast Track Pathway Training (September 2025) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

18 September 2025 Birmingham Registered Managers Network Meeting 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

18 September 2025 Skills for Care Registered Manager webinar | Getting stronger – how digital can work for you - 10:00 am - 11:00 am

18 September 2025 The DSPT and Data Protection in General for Care Homes - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

19 September 2025 WMCA Safeguarding Adults Awareness ourse - 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

8. REMINDER Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust - Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Quarterly IPC Champions Forum 18 September 2025 (Information for Birmingham and Solihull Care Homes)

IPC will soon host your quarterly IPC Champions Forum. Join (virtually) via Microsoft Teams on Thursday, 18 September 2025 between 10.00am – 11.15am.

click here to join the meeting

For comments/queries, infection control advice, and training requests please contact bchc.ipcdata1@nhs.net or 0121 466 6550

9. REMINDER Clouds End – Free Multi Agency Hoarding Awareness Training 24 September 2025 (Information for all Providers)

Free online training for staff on hoarding is available. The full day sessions (10.00am to 4.00pm) cover understanding hoarding and an overview of the C20 project (module 1), supportive engagement techniques (module 2) and supportive interventions for successful multi agency working (module 3). Training days are on:

• 24 September 2025
• 19 November 2025

All sessions are on Zoom

To book, please email help@cloudsend.org.uk stating the date you are interested in, and the meeting link will be shared with you.

10. Birmingham Ageing Well - Help Us Plan How We Make Birmingham a Better Place for Our Older Adults 30 September 2025 (Information for Providers Delivering Services to People Over 50)

If your work directly or indirectly relates to:

• Brain health and dementia prevention
• Falls and frailty prevention
• End of life care
• Community and health services

We want you to join us for a system wide stakeholder workshop on the ‘Birmingham Ageing Well Strategy’ Tuesday 30 September 10:00am – 4:00 pm, The Studio, 7 Cannon St. B2 5EP.

This will be a great chance to contribute to, and kick off co-production of the ‘Birmingham Ageing Well Strategy’ which will begin the work in shaping our system to become a city we can all age well in.

Register uisng the link below:

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