Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

The House of Lords has rejected – for a second time – a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. Peers also introduced provisions to bring in free care for disabled people aged under 40 in a vote on the Health and Care Bill yesterday.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Government plans to prevent overseas care staff from bringing family members with them to the UK risks worsening the sector’s already significant staff shortages. James Cleverly He also said the government suspected that there was “significant surplus demand” from overseas staff to work in the UK care sector.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. ” Urgent actions .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many thousands of care workers in England will get a 10% pay rise next April after the government decided to increase its national living wage (NLW) from £10.42 While being critical of commissioners, the association said the root cause of the issues was inadequate government funding.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Dear Mr Javid, I am writing, in this open letter, to express my grave and continuing concern over the care and support for people who have a learning disability and autistic people detained in inpatient care or at risk of such detention. Entrenched problem. I attach Dimensions’ response to the committee report. Disappointing.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

People with learning disabilities and autistic people were “not always protected from abuse or poor care” by insufficiently skilled staff, amid a blame culture in a mental health trust’s inpatient services. Effective governance systems are in place to keep people safe and meet individual needs.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

‘Adding further pressures to underfunded sector’ A Local Government Association spokesperson said: “The loss of funding streams for social care puts councils and providers onto an even more unstable footing and highlights how volatile the financial situation is within social care. . Related articles.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. Jones, claimed his review would have greater independence from government and stronger engagement with children and families than the English inquiry chaired by Josh MacAlister.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. “We are pleased to see that the government has listened to councils and has protected this money.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Revised guidance on disabled children’s assessments The DfE has also strengthened guidance on the assessment of disabled children and their families after this was backed by two-thirds of respondents. The commission started its review in October 2023.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

BBC Sounds: how the voices of disabled people can shape social care Photo: enterlinedesign/Fotolia Anna Severwright, the convener of social care movement #socialcarefuture, has spoken out about her experience as a disabled person and what is needed to create a “fit for purpose” adult social care system.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The news was welcomed by mental health bodies, in the light of the government’s decision – revealed in last week’s King’s Speech – to drop its manifesto pledge to reform the MHA during the current parliamentary term. Streeting echoed these comments in a debate today on the NHS. ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There will be no reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 before the next election, the government has confirmed. The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the latest sign of the UK’s deepening social care crisis, Leonard Cheshire said it had taken the drastic step of evicting vulnerable residents with complex disabilities because council funders had refused to meet fee increases that reflected the rising costs of wages, energy and food. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, I reported on cash-strapped Bristol city council’s proposal to move disabled people into residential care if it was deemed “best value” compared with providing support in their own homes. The onslaught of cost-cutting, short-termist, outright nasty public policy can sometimes make it hard to believe any progress is possible.

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The Guardian

APRIL 23, 2024

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay huge fines One of Rishi Sunak’s dementia advisers has resigned over the government’s approach towards unpaid carers, describing the prosecutions of vulnerable people as “beyond the pale”.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Proposals to overhaul the Mental Health Act 1983 will be considered by Parliament over the next year, the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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The Guardian

APRIL 17, 2024

This month a Guardian investigation revealed that thousands of people who look after disabled, frail or ill relatives have been forced to pay back huge sums after being chased by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over “honest mistakes” that officials could have spotted years earlier.

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2023

Lambeth council in London was fined £20,000 by the local government and social care ombudsman for a catalogue of service failures and administrative errors that left the child unsafe and in “significant and avoidable distress” and her mother at risk of serious injury.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. Ongoing LADO review Meanwhile, the government’s review of the LADO role is ongoing.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. cash rise worth 4.7%

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, due to cost constraints, found the annual Pulse Check survey commissioned by learning disability provider Hft and representative body Care England. rise in the salary floor due in April 2024.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

On the back of the research, the CSA Centre called for governments, councils and other commissioners in England and Wales to: Ensure sufficient funding for services to maintain their current provision and provide timely support, including by providing long-term, unrestricted funding to ensure financial stability for providers.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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The Guardian

JUNE 15, 2023

Readers explain how they are being forced to give up essential social care or forgo meals and sanitary products Disabled people in England are finding themselves in severe financial hardship owing to rising social care costs and the increase in the cost of living. Social care, unlike the NHS, is not free at the point of need.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

He must also wrestle with the severe pressures in the care system for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children , in the wake of a High Court judgment that ruled the government’s policy of routinely placing young people in hotels was unlawful.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. “It will require a nationwide strategy, with significant commitment at a local and national level, led by national government. Children had up to eight areas of need, with two-thirds having four or more.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

.” Family inspiration Much of her career was spent working with adults with learning disabilities, a reflection of the fact that her career in social care was inspired by her own experience caring for her brother, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The government will delay the introduction of the cap on care costs for two years, in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement next week, The Times has reported. The measure is designed to contribute to government plans to make expected reductions of over £30bn a year in spending to shore up the public finances.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Institute for Government (IFG) said that a long-term decline in the number of people receiving adult social care, amid increases in requests for support, was most likely down to rationing, not the use of strengths-based practice to make people more independent and less in need of care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Specialist services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people, including supported living, saw a sharp fall in their profit margins from 2021-23, driven by rising staff costs. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

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The Guardian

APRIL 7, 2024

Unpaid carers provide support for loved ones – normally parents or children, who are disabled, frail or ill. Rules around earning limits for people in receipt of carer’s allowance risk them unknowingly racking up debt to DWP Carers threatened with prosecution over minor rules breaches Analysis: Why are so many carers being taken to court?

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities.

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