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Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body

Community Care

The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% “Care work is highly skilled and all care workers should be paid more than the national living wage. next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs.

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£10m boost to adult social care funding to tackle NHS winter pressures

Community Care

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards.

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One in eight councils moved to ‘life and limb care only’ for at least some people over Christmas, warns ADASS

Community Care

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care and residential care sectors were running vacancy rates of 18% in addition to 14% absence rates last week. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.