Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. This is up by almost £4bn on 2023-24, a rise of 6.5% in cash terms, which the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said amounted to a 4.7%

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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

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. in real terms.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

Well, social workers still need to pay the bills though. Even though the sector governor, the National Council of Social Services has tried to introduce pay guidelines , they are guidelines. AMKFSC AMKFSC remains one of the biggest, and most reputable social service agencies in Singapore. There, I’ve said it.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

The purpose of this article is two fold: To share about the world of FSC social work, and what you should be mindful of before you join To help you assess whether this is something for you When people asked me where I worked at, I used to describe the FSC as a GP (general practitioner) for social services.

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