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18th March 2024 Supporting loneliness for those who are socially isolated. The British Red Cross & Co-op (2016) identified that loneliness was becoming one of the biggest health concerns acros read more

Applying to join the VP Team for Care Work 6th April 2023 Are you thinking of applying to care work? Here’s what some of our staff say about working for VP: “I’ve worked for this company for nearly 3 years and I’ve been looked aft read more

VP Forensic Fancy Dress for Headway 14th May 2020 Help VP Forensic raise money for Headway Nottingham! Unfortunately, due to government cutbacks, Headway Nottingham need to raise £53,000 by May 2020 to keep running for another ye read more

The latest newsletter is here! 12th February 2019 The latest newsletter is here!! Within this edition we explore the importance of staff training and an exciting event which happened within the VP Office. Articles within the VP read more

The 2019 newsletter is here! 6th February 2019 The 2019 Newsletter is here! Within this edition we explore what makes a good agency and an exciting event which happened within the VP Office. Articles within the VP newsletter read more

VP Complex Care Newsletter is HERE!! 10th April 2018 Hot off the press, here is the latest edition of the VP Complex Care Newsletter. Within this edition we explore the ways in which we offer quality support to our staff and most imp read more

No such thing as a ‘snow day’ in healthcare. 2nd March 2018 With Red, Amber and Yellow weather warnings being issued all over Britain many news reports are telling us not to travel unless absolutely necessary. When working in healthcare, it read more

Self-Injury Awareness Day 2018 1st March 2018 1st March is Self-Injury awareness day, a day for raising awareness helping to break the silence for people who may need support and empathy. For 16 years Self Awareness day, as an read more

#VPudseyRound2 3rd January 2018 Valuing People and Children in Need 2017 VP hosted their second Children in Need event on Friday 17th November 2017 and what a success it was! Not only a success in terms of how read more

Valuing People and our coffee morning success…... 19th October 2017 Friday 29th September was not just a typical day here VP. We held our very own Macmillan Coffee morning at our offices in Nottingham in the true spirit of valuing people. During t read more

VP Complex Care Summer Newsletter 4th September 2017 We are pleased to share our summer newsletter for VP Complex Care. You can click to view here VP Forensic 2017 Summer newsletter community or you can contact us on 08708504265 a read more

Macmillan coffee morning with VP Forensic 1st September 2017 VP will be taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday 29th September to fundraise for Macmillan cancer support charity. Would you like to be involved? Please fee read more

Newsletter for the summer from VP Forensic 30th August 2017 We are pleased to share our summer newsletter for the Forensic Mental Health units, residential services, hospitals and prison services. You can click to view here VP Forensic Su read more

Meerkat Monday 25th May 2017 What do you mean Meerkats can’t be Support Workers? Well, I suppose they can’t reach door handles, or make food, or lift anything above our knees. Perhaps they can’t join the read more

Getting to know Autism by Danielle North 31st March 2017 We are about enter Autism Awareness Month. As such, we wanted to help spread the word to increase everyone’s knowledge and understanding. We will look at what Autism is. H read more

Valuing People and our most recent Newsletter for Forensic... 8th March 2017 We are pleased to share with you the latest edition of the VP Complex Care newsletter. Additionally, we have developed the very first edition of VP Forensic newsletter. As w read more

National and World days. 2nd March 2017 This week has seen several important issues be recognised by having their own national day or even world day. Our Admin team, Samantha Hearne and Toni Saxton, have shared with u read more

The Best Job in the World 7th February 2017 From my experience, it is the people that make the job. By surrounding yourself with good people, they can make the most mundane of jobs fun and meaningful. So, to have the best jo read more

#VPudsey 16th November 2016 On 15th November VP Forensic hosted a Children In Need event. Whilst many may think “not another charity fundraiser!” and although the initial aim of the day was to raise money read more

VP Supporting Children in Need 4th November 2016 VP are holding an event here at our Nottingham offices in order to raise money for CHILDREN IN NEED on Tuesday 15th November The main event of the day is a BEAT THE BOSS competit read more

VP Supported Holidays By Danielle North 24th October 2016 Now that Summer 2016 is well and truly over, the cold, wet wintery English weather is settling in, which gets us thinking about next years holidays in the sizzling hot sun. Whilst read more

Applying to join the VP Team 26th September 2016 Here’s what some of our staff say about working for VP: “Lovely support from Danielle… Danielle works hard and is always there to listen. Very comfortable talking to her” & read more

The importance of valuing your health and wellbeing... 2nd September 2016 Working within care is a very rewarding role, seeing the positive impact you have on the day to day lives of those you support is the reason many people take up a career as a Suppo read more

LATEST EDITION of the VP Newsletter is here……... 3rd August 2016 We are pleased to share with you our latest edition of the VP newsletter. Click to view in PDF. VP Care Newsletter Inside this welcome issue: Striving to deliver high quality suppo read more

Striving to deliver high quality support by Paula Ginty... 29th July 2016 We would like to share with you the feedback that we have received from one of our long standing clients with regards to our Team Leader heading up a support package that we have s read more

Conferences attended and booked 2016 10th June 2016 March is the start of exhibition season with May being important for the industry because of National Brain Injury Week. read more

Our new CQC Inspection report is out! 1st February 2016 We are pleased to be rated a Good service and would like to share some of the feedback with you! read more

Being Breast Aware by Samantha Harper 9th December 2015 In the UK every year 58,000 people are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Sadly this means that every 10 minutes someone is told they have breast cancer. read more

Is Rugby Bad For Your Brain By Paula Ginty 9th October 2015 A recent documentary shown on BBC1 explored the possibility of brain damage in rugby players due to constant blows to the head. read more

Top tips for a good nights sleep (part 2) by Dr Shelley... 5th October 2015 In part 1, we looked at the importance of sleep and highlighted the first 6 of 13 top tips to improve your sleep and feel great. Here are the rest: read more

NEW EDITION VP Care Newsletter 10th September 2015 We are pleased to share with you our first edition new look newsletter! read more

Top tips for a good night’s sleep (part 1) by Dr. Shelley... 7th September 2015 We have all been there – lying awake, tossing and turning, the mind working overtime. It’s frustrating and makes us feel dreadful. read more

Conferences attended and booked 2015 13th April 2015 March is the start of exhibition season with May being important for the industry because of National Brain Injury Week. read more