Community Care

MAY 9, 2024

Social workers and managers from 22 organisations are to help develop and test resources designed to cut workloads among children’s practitioners. They will work with the Department for Education (DfE) appointed national workload action group (NWAG) to identify and quality assure solutions to ‘unnecessary’ drivers of workload. The work of the review, testing and implementation network (RTIN), which comprises 21 councils and one children’s trust (see below), will cover are

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The Guardian

MAY 9, 2024

About 50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal • Will DWP act on carer’s allowance scandal? Tens of thousands of unpaid carers are at risk of debt and criminal prosecution because their cases are lying unchecked on a government “alert” database of people being overpaid benefits, according to new figures.

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CAPC

MAY 9, 2024

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), and Aliviado Health partner to release the NHPI Dementia Care Resources Provider Guide.

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The Guardian

MAY 9, 2024

After the Guardian exposé there is pressure on ministers to save people from a system described as ‘setting carers up for a fall’ • DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands at risk of debt It has been a month since the Guardian revealed the shocking scale of the carer’s allowance overpayments scandal, and the misery and despair it has inflicted on tens of thousands of unpaid carers.

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