Social Care

JULY 17, 2024

The new Government is now busy setting out its priorities and future direction as set out in its election manifesto. Recent activities Upon the general election being called six weeks ago, there began a period of intense planning and briefing preparation for the incoming government.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Government plans to prevent overseas care staff from bringing family members with them to the UK risks worsening the sector’s already significant staff shortages. James Cleverly He also said the government suspected that there was “significant surplus demand” from overseas staff to work in the UK care sector.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also know that retaining enough experienced social workers is a big challenge and ADCS urges the government to use this opportunity to develop a national recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people into the profession, and crucially to want to stay. We look forward to working with the department in the coming months.”.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Council leaders have welcomed reports that the government will delay implementing its cap on care costs for a year, but warned that the funding allocated to the reform should be retained by authorities. Delaying the reforms would have echoes of previous decisions by Conservative-led governments to first defer, and then drop, similar changes.

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Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

UNISON has announced a fresh round of strikes after its members overwhelmingly rejected an improved pay offer for local government staff in Scotland. Nine in ten members who voted rejected the offer from employers’ body COSLA, on a 57% turnout, after UNISON members had taken strike action in schools over it last month. in September. .

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Related reading. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The government should find £500,000 to help 200 former practitioners return to social work in its forthcoming autumn statement, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. The LGA made the same call for the government to fund a return to social work scheme last year, on the grounds it would alleviate workforce pressures.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

The paper was based on a 10-month inquiry designed to examine what the Welsh Government’s 2021 commitment to “explore radical reform of current services for children looked after and care leavers” should mean in practice.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

The House of Lords has rejected – for a second time – a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government talk about levelling up for disabled people, but really they are doing the opposite. Government to stand firm.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. However, in November last year, the government announced a two-year delay to the reforms, recycling £3.2bn to help councils meet current pressures.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many thousands of care workers in England will get a 10% pay rise next April after the government decided to increase its national living wage (NLW) from £10.42 While being critical of commissioners, the association said the root cause of the issues was inadequate government funding.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The government is not expecting a significant rise in social care referrals from introducing a duty on professionals to report child sexual abuse.

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Community Care

APRIL 27, 2022

A government change reducing the cap on care costs’ benefit to less wealthy people has become law, following a parliamentary battle. The government says its change will save £900m a year. Opposition peers failed to prevent the change in a vote last night in the House of Lords. Hit to less wealth and those in poorer regions.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… . The second ground was not raised in the appeal.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

The UK government must fully fund the introduction of a £10.50-an-hour minimum wage – at a cost of £2.1bn to the public purse – was necessary, it was not sufficient, the MAC said in a government-commissioned report on adult social care and immigration. Government to consider recommendations. “We While a £10.50

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In its latest adoption strategy , published in July, the government said it wanted to cut waits for children with a placement order to less than 18 months, saying it was “unacceptable” that 1,000 children were waiting longer than this. The government has made this one of its key targets for the next three years. Related articles.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Those who were managers rose to 21.7%, up from 19.9%, a trend described as “concerning” by Josh MacAlister who is leading the government-commissioned children’s social care review. Government examining how councils can take more social work students. Social care staffing situation continues to deteriorate, show latest figures.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2023

By Nicole Weinstein The government has sought to address “confusion” among practitioners that is preventing them from sharing information to safeguard children at risk.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. Jones, claimed his review would have greater independence from government and stronger engagement with children and families than the English inquiry chaired by Josh MacAlister.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

An increase in adult social care funding next year should deliver “tangible improvements” to services, the government told councils today. The government said it would be providing an additional £2bn in social care grant in 2023-24 compared with 2022-23, though most of it is not new money. in real terms (9.2%

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Community Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

They issued the message in a letter to the three unions represented on the National Joint Council for Local Government Services , in direct response to repeated calls from the GMB, UNISON and Unite for an improved offer.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

‘Adding further pressures to underfunded sector’ A Local Government Association spokesperson said: “The loss of funding streams for social care puts councils and providers onto an even more unstable footing and highlights how volatile the financial situation is within social care. Related articles.

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. “There are lots of really great employers out there,” he said. .”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government is examining how councils can place more social work students to meet its ambitions to increase numbers coming into the profession. It added: “The government plans to invest in new and existing training routes for people who want to become social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Council heads have urged the government to fund another return to social work scheme to bring 200 practitioners back into practice and alleviate pressures on the workforce in England.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The government’s care funding reforms will do very little for those with longstanding needs and modest wealth, following changes that reduce their benefit for the less well-off. Vote on Care Act change. That’s a big change. I think it’s disappointing. It finds savings exclusively from the less well off group.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Campaigners have accused the government of undermining practitioners’ knowledge and experience with its proposals to tighten age assessments for unaccompanied young people claiming asylum. However, they may come under pressure when the bill goes to the House of Lords. Age assessment board. Scientific’ age assessments.

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Community Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

The government has urged councils to take in unaccompanied children after the High Court ruled its practice of housing them in hotels, and Kent council’s failure to accommodate all those arriving in the county, were unlawful.

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Community Care

JULY 6, 2023

The government is no longer funding a scheme to promote racial equality in local authorities’ social care workforces. in 2021-22 – comes from government contracts to deliver several national social care workforce programmes, it is a charity. Though most of Skills for Care’s income – which was £38.5m

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.” But so many who have lived through or work in this faltering system know that there’s a burning platform. Reforms will get started this year, but children and families will have to wait longer to see results.

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Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. The government has also made no provision to increase pay, aside from annual increases in the national living wage, saying this was a matter for employers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. Delay to cap on care costs being considered. of their budgets) in 2023-24.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The government has ended statutory interventions in two council children’s services, while removing a commissioner appointed to direct improvements at a third. The DfE initially issued a direction to Sunderland City Council in April 2017 after Ofsted had judged its children’s services as inadequate.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The government will create a register of children who are not in school following longstanding safeguarding concerns around home education.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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