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?

Disability 311

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 311

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.

Home Care 203

Home Care Hospital Discharges Disability Hospitals 203

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter.

Hospital Discharges 217

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 217

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.

Home Care 321

Home Care Government Disability Hospitals 321

Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

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.

Hospital Discharges 250

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability Home Care 250

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Foster Care 98

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. an hour in the national living wage (NLW) from April 2022. .”

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Government Mental Health Social Worker University 242