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Care Act duties ‘permanently undermined’ by widespread breaches during Covid, argues study

Community Care

However, across almost all services, including day centres, residential respite, group activities, sitting services and social work, most of these respondents said they were now getting less or no support. In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. It said the “deeply disappointing” findings showed the care market was in an “untenable operating position” and urged Whately to “acknowledge the findings and invest in social care”.

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Social Work Recap: soaring vacancies, social care users left in debt and Shamima Begum

Community Care

The figures showed that, as of September 2022, the numbers of vacancies and posts held by agency staff had reached record levels, average caseloads had risen and the number of social workers in post had fallen for the first time since 2017.