Community Care
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Foster carer shortages are deepening in England with one in eight fostering households having quit, and more leaving than joining, over the past year. Ofsted’s latest fostering statistics , released earlier this month, showed that in 2021-22, 5,435 mainstream fostering households deregistered compared to 4,035 that were approved to care and still active as of 31 March 2022.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Exclusive: Leonard Cheshire says it can no longer afford to subsidise care services inadequately funded by councils Severely disabled care home residents are being evicted in a series of disputes between one of the UK’s best-known care charities and a number of local authorities that the charity has accused of refusing to meet the soaring costs of care.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Over a third of social workers are yet to renew their registration with five days to go until the deadline. As of this morning, 62,156 social workers had renewed their registration, 63% of those who need to do so, said Social Work England. All social workers who want to continue in practice must renew by midnight on 30 November (next Wednesday) or be removed from the register.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Increasing numbers of providers, such as Leonard Cheshire, are ‘handing back’ contracts not viable at current funding levels For several years now, as austerity sucked billions out of social care, the highly specialised UK social care system for adults with complex physical disability, learning disability and autism has been quietly held together by the benevolence of charities.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Councils piloting the cap on care costs have paused their work after the government announced a two-year delay to the policy. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is in talks with the six ‘trailblazer’ authorities about the way forward after chancellor Jeremy Hunt put back the implementation of the adult social care charging reforms to October 2025, in last week’s autumn statement.
International Federation of Social Workers
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Violence against women and girls may be the world’s longest, deadliest pandemic António Guterres The International Federation of Social Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean (IFSW LAC) joins the […].
International Federation of Social Workers
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
La violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas es la violación de los derechos humanos mas extendida en todo el mundo. Antonio Guterres Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas La […].
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