The Guardian

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

John Griffiths says he was cured in three weeks, but stuck in hospital for 16, while another reader says the hard-working carers for their disabled son deserve to be paid more.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

It will produce a draft bill designed to reduce the number of detentions, tackle longstanding racial disparities in the use of compulsory powers and end the detention of people on the sole grounds of them being autistic or having learning disabilities. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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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. This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. In hospital for between 10 and 30 years.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who have experienced abuse, trauma-informed care can prove very helpful. The impact and prevalence of trauma among persons with disabilities is hard to ignore. Other experiences that are unique to individuals with disabilities can be considered traumatic.

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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. ”

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2024

Mental Health Act reform: this would reform the 1983 act to lower the thresholds for detention in hospital and community treatment orders and exclude autistic people and people with learning disabilities from being detained for treatment without a co-existing mental health condition.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. Extended the right to an independent mental health advocate to informal (ie non-detained) patients.

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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

APRIL 11, 2024

“It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days. Laming tells me of a severely disabled young adult who, until the age of 18, had been well supported by children’s services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

They believe the hospital called the Allegheny County family police agency, which immediately took away the child. The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. And they don’t say what led to the risk score in a given case.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Nicola, whose 24-year-old son has been detained under the Mental Health Act since September 2017 at Cheadle Royal hospital in Cheshire, said his care is “worse than being in prison” and “people wouldn’t treat an animal” as badly. Continue reading.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: “If it had passed, it would have taken the cap beyond the grasp of older people with few or modest assets, poorer places and disabled people of working age. It will also disproportionately affect working age adults with disabilities.” They should not be taken for granted.”

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Funding to help care providers fund infection control and Covid testing, and for the NHS to fund free care for up to four weeks for people discharged from hospital with support needs, ended on 31 March, as did winter resources to help providers recruit and retain staff in the face of mounting pressures.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Common themes discussed concerned challenges in the provider market, mental health impacts of lockdown and social isolation, issues for people with learning disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, increasing pressures on family carers, challenges regarding prevention and the changing use of technology.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

“More than 50 million PCR and 142 million LFD kits have been delivered to care homes and we have invested a further £478 million to support safe and timely hospital discharges to get patients into the best place for their care and support to continue.”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Their father is eager to take them in, but at the time of the removal he’s in the hospital. That’s because after he was hit by a drunk driver and confined to a wheelchair it led to medical complications that sometimes require hospitalization. Here’s the detail: Dad’s mobility isn’t compromised because he’s confined to a wheelchair.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

a social safety net for all citizens [was created, providing support] for the homeless, disabled people and older people, obliging local authorities to provide suitable accommodation." For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals in hospital settings. "[Alongside the birth of the NHS].

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. Placements increasingly far from home. ‘Inhumane and costly’ scandal.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

A “crisis-led” approach saw a council close a hospital referral over a boy’s unexplained injuries, months before he was murdered by his mother’s partner, a review has found. Children’s social care had also shared its previous involvement with Shirley with the hospital.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

There may have been hospitalizations. The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. There may have been some episodes of violence.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was in a psychosis.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“But it’s not nearly enough to turn the curve and free social workers to work with people to support them to live gloriously ordinary lives and safeguard people’s rights when they may be deprived of their liberty, experiencing abuse, neglect or self-neglect, or in mental health crisis and at risk of compulsory admission to hospital. .

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If this were to be the case, we could make some inroads in maintaining the essential workforce needed so that older and disabled people can continue to access support and live life fully.” . “Care work is highly skilled and all care workers should be paid more than the national living wage.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How the sector will manage the coming winter, including how £500m allocated to bolster the workforce and help clear hospital beds should be used. Lack of appointment ‘extremely concerning’ The apparent vacuum drew a concerned response from the British Association of Social Workers England.

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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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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Johnson’s case is particularly concerning given his extensive documented history of mental illness, learning disabilities, abuse, and trauma. Johnson’s adolescence was riddled with suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and he ultimately was diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as age 16, according to the Missouri Supreme Court.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

After starting out in the field as a support worker for people with learning disabilities at Bryn y Neuadd hospital, Llanfairfechan, in the 1970s, Vicki was a maternity unit social worker at St David’s hospital, Bangor, in the 80s, and then an assessor in the 90s.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

93% of directors said they backed more government funding for adult social care beyond £500m announced in September to support the workforce and hospital discharges , which is yet to be allocated two months on. Authorities are planning £1.3bn in adult social care savings in 2023-24.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. A cultural shift is required within social care to ensure that older and disabled people’s rights are recognised and protected.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This means it has not bowed to calls from council leaders for a delay, to help them deal with current pressures on services, including severe shortages of care staff, long waiting times for assessments and care and high levels of delayed discharges from hospital.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ombudsman also criticised the level of communication provided by Miss X’s then social worker, who went a month without contacting her, including a week in which she went without overnight care between two of a succession of hospital admissions. Disabled man left in unsuitable accommodation for 27 months, finds ombudsman.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

I’m sat at the hospital with a client, wondering what I should do. This is longer term work One colleague I had didn’t like the work because it was quite long term, compared to other places like the hospital. Its Christmas Eve. It’s nearly 8pm now. Should I go home to take a break, or should I continue staying? But duty calls.

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Blurt It Out

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Mighty The Mighty publishes real stories by real people, living with disability, disease, and mental illness. Sectioned Sectioned is written by a blogger who was sectioned in one of Britain’s acute psychiatric hospitals in 2011. We hope you enjoy them as we do. They are also very active on Twitter.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Since then, this sweeping, groundbreaking law has improved the health of all Americans, including children, women and families, men, older adults, communities of color, those with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQI+. Social workers are essential team members in hospitals, primary care, specialty care, and community-based organizations.

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