Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has started its quest for a new chief social worker for adults, after Lyn Romeo announced her retirement after a decade in post. A proven track record of operating successfully in a senior leadership role within social work, adult social care, or local government. Experience of working in or with central government.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Next year’s 10% hike in the national living wage (NLW) will trigger adult social care cuts without increased government funding for councils, a survey has found. an hour, announced in the autumn statement, will benefit many adult social care staff in independent providers commissioned by local authorities.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Over four in ten adult social care providers closed parts of their organisation or handed back contracts last year because of cost pressures, driven in particular by staffing shortages, a survey has found. 1.6bn through increasing the adult social care council tax precept by 2% and raising standard council tax by 3% in each year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated most councils as good in pilot assessments for its new system of appraising the quality of local authority adults’ social care. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Up to £550m from increasing the adult social care precept – the part of council tax that must be spent on adults’ services – by a maximum of 2% (up from a 1% limit in 2022-23).

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has streamlined its process for assessing council adult social care services following significant concerns about the burden on authorities.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

Chief social worker for adults Lyn Romeo and principal social workers have issued guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014. The latter point prompted criticism from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, which warned that it risked diluting the social work role.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned. Council complaints processes England Under 2009 regulations , all councils must have a formal adult social care complaints system but may determine the form this takes themselves.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

The staff vacancy rate across adult social care services in England hit 10% last month, show figures released today. of posts were vacant, according to Skills for Care’s adult social care workforce data set. Government Covid funding for adult social care ends. The rate rose from 9.8% drop as of February this year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. In 2021-22, the number of vacancies across adult social care rose by 55,000 (52%), while the number of filled posts fell by 50,000. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

No minister has been appointed for adult social care, six weeks into Liz Truss’s premiership. The implementation of the Care Quality Commission’s new performance assessment scheme for local authority adult social services next April, which council leaders want to see delayed.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The government has unveiled a £500m adult social care grant to free up hospital beds and bolster the care workforce this winter. These have mounted over the past year, with vacancies in adult social care rising by 52% in 2021-22, and are seen as a key reason for the lack of availability of social care for people who can leave hospital.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

As the Department of Health and Social Care announces its adult social care workforce reform package , Oonagh Smyth, CEO of Skills for Care , gives her insight into what this means for recruiting, retaining and empowering the care workforce.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

Sixty five thousand people in England have been waiting at least six months for an adults’ services assessment as unmet needs mount, directors have warned. In response, the Department of Health and Social Care pointed to the £5.4bn in additional funding it had allocated to adult social care across the UK over the next three years.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Almost all councils lack the funding or the workforce to meet adult social care costs this winter, their directors have warned. Mounting adult care pressures. Councils were looking to save a further £113m from adult social care budgets before next April, in addition to £597m in reductions for 2022-23 identified in a previous survey.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. “DHSC will provide local authorities with the opportunity to explain how they have used the funding and any additional context through challenge sessions before considering further measures.”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The government has given the adult social care workforce a £300m boost through the winter which providers can use to increase staffing numbers or pay. So far, more than 70% of older adult care home residents have received a booster. recruitment and retention fund announced in October.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

package of reforms has been developed in close partnership with Skills for Care, Think Local Act Personal, the wise counsel of Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults [and others]." Now more than ever, there are long term incentives for people considering this exciting, evolving and rewarding career.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments of local authority adult social services are still due to start in a matter of weeks despite the process for doing so not having been agreed. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed that the adults’ assessments were still on course to commence at the start of April.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The government has pledged to invest in new training routes into social work as part of its white paper on adult social care reform, published today. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said these would be funded from £500m allocated for developing the adult social care workforce from 2022-25. behaviours?to

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

” It called on the government to reinstate the funding, which has been worth £1.35bn to adult social care since May 2020, with a further £288m allocated for testing. Drop in adult social workers employed by councils as vacancies and turnover mount. Social care honours colleagues lost to Covid.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 10, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com] Partners in improving research Over 12 months, we have been supported by the NIHR School for -Social Care Research to test out ways to support practitioners, who remain in practice, to lead the development of research agendas within adult social care.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 19, 2024

Pepper Older Americans Independence Center grant, Assistant Professor Rupal Parekh is leading a pilot study about the impact of social isolation and loneliness on the health and well-being of Black and African American older adults in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

As reported last month , the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services warned that the exercises – which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) required authorities to carry out – revealed a significant shortfall. .

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

"We want to measure your experience at work and help policy makers understand what support is needed to make sure the adult social care sector is a great place to work." This will help inform decisions around how we support the adult social care sector and how we measure the effectiveness of the support provided.

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Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

Adult social care vacancy numbers have fallen slightly from an all-time high over the past year, but remain over 150,000, show figures released today. The number of empty posts fell from 165,000 to 152,000 in the year to March 2023, revealed Skills for Care’s annual State of the adult social care sector and workforce in England report.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Pandemic-related delays in responding to adult safeguarding concerns have resulted in “severe consequences” for people accessing or in need of services, with many reports being made later, meaning problems have become far more acute, complex and harmful. Covid sees end to year-on-year fall in adults receiving long-term care.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children would be treated as adults – and likely detained – if they refused to consent to having their age assessed using scientific methods in age-disputed cases. This would likely cover the majority of unaccompanied claimants entering the UK after that time.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can learn more about the scheme by reading our article on it ending.

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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Adults’ services in England will need more social workers over the next two years to implement the government’s social care reforms, the chief social worker has said. This compares with a headcount of 33,966 social workers employed by councils or children’s trusts as of September 2020.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In England, the adult social care white paper, People at the heart of care , wants to see more people having ‘choice, control and support to live independent lives’. In Northern Ireland, a recent consultation on adult social care reforms highlighted the public interest in choice and control being at the heart of any future reforms.

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CAPC

APRIL 22, 2024

All about Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's neuro-inclusive oncology care and empowerment program, which was designed to support adults living with cancer, who also have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The programme aims to support the adoption of digital technologies in the adult social care sector. It was with this in mind that we launched our Adult Social Care Technology Fund in April 2023. Find out more The second wave of applications for the fund is now underway.

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The Guardian

MARCH 19, 2024

Damning report on long-term care system blames uneven funding and a lack of a plan for failure The government has brought adult social care in England “to its knees” with years of uneven funding and a “woefully insufficient plan” to fill thousands of staff vacancies, MPs have said in a damning report on a system that provides long-term care for 835,000 (..)

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