Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. It said most had come from social workers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and India.
Community Care
JANUARY 25, 2022
Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% below March 2021 levels, shows data released this month by Skills for Care.
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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.
Community Care
JANUARY 30, 2023
Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.
Community Care
APRIL 8, 2022
There is also an upward trend in sickness absence , with the average number of days lost to sickness per worker in the previous 12 months rising to 9.7 Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% and care workers 12.2%. among care worker posts specifically.
Community Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
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.
Community Care
JUNE 14, 2022
Data commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), forming found ethnic minority staff in the independent care sector were likelier than white peers to be on zero-hours contracts. More on racial inequalties in social care. proper wage rises and ensuring ?decent decent sick pay.
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