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Community Care
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The care sector remains “unsustainable” in the face of spiralling energy costs despite the “much needed relief” provided by the government’s support package for business, charities and the public sector. However, LGA resources board chair Andrew Western warned that councils also needed more support.
Community Care
JUNE 24, 2022
retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation as recorded on 1 April 2022 – was made jointly this month by Napo, the main union for staff at the organisation, and UNISON. We need to get a business case through.” Unions have called for a 10.8% The claim – a 3% pay rise plus the 7.8%
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Community Care
OCTOBER 17, 2022
This gave agency social workers three options : going directly onto agency payrolls (on a reduced hourly rate), work via an umbrella company (through which they should accrue some employment rights, such as holiday pay) or stay responsible for their own limited company but be taxed at source.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
This leaves major growth, particularly in adults’ and children’s social care, totally unfunded. This is not a medium-term problem that can be fixed with more one-off handouts to keep the sector limping along, it needs fundamental changes to the whole system of local government funding. ” Two-year delay to care cap.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
This was written before the DHSC confirmed today that the lower and upper capital limits, £14,250 and £23,250, respectively, would stay frozen for a 13th consecutive year, in 2023-24, though the MIG, along with the personal expenses allowance for care home residents, would rise by 10% to cover inflation.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 4, 2021
We have ways of swallowing our own smoke if the only problem is inflation, but there are so many other extra costs that we need to cope with,” says the former business consultant turned Labour councillor. It’s tough.” Continue reading.
Community Care
JUNE 1, 2023
Such a duty exists in adults’ services, in which councils must, temporarily, meet the needs of people – regardless of any duty to do so – when a provider’s business fails. “The recruitment crisis is currently the most serious barrier to providers opening new provision to meet local authority sufficiency needs.”
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