Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.
Community Care
MARCH 17, 2022
The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” Worsening workforce situation.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. The department said improvements in case management systems (CMS) were needed to enable more direct work and reduce workload pressures on practitioners.
Community Care
MARCH 14, 2022
Social workers could more than double the time they spend with children and families through more efficient case management systems and fewer meetings. By contrast, they spent half of their time on case recording, administration or other IT tasks, and significant time in meetings. Half of social worker time spent on admin.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
There are “significant risks” around the government’s capacity to deliver its already delayed plan to introduce a cap on care costs by October 2025, the public spending watchdog has warned. Government has set out its ambition to meet this challenge and now needs to demonstrate how it is delivering on these plans. “If
Community Care
MAY 31, 2022
Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. “This increase in productivity could enable authorities to manage a proportion of the additional demand being forecast.”
Community Care
APRIL 13, 2022
Though the council had implemented a “robust contract management cycle” since taking ownership of the trust in 2019, the report said current governance arrangements limited the authority’s ability to challenge poor performance. Unmet need. No redundancies.
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