Community Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
When speaking to Elaine James, her passion for upholding the rights of people with learning disabilities is almost infectious. This is also evident in her accomplishments as the head of service for learning disabilities and preparation for adulthood at Bradford council. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote?
Community Care
DECEMBER 14, 2022
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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Community Care
MARCH 3, 2023
The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can read more about the findings in our article.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. The finding was based on comparing data from 99% of councils and 52% of NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) against the association’s the minimum price for home care, which was £25.95
Community Care
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2% in March, according to Skills for Care figures.
The Guardian
JANUARY 15, 2022
Figures obtained by the Observer show thousands of people not receiving paid-for services because of lack of workers Nearly 9,000 people in England are waiting for home care services according to figures obtained by the Observer , but the true figure is likely to be much higher with the situation having worsened dramatically since last spring.
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