Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The number of social work students registered in Scotland has fallen for a second consecutive year, with student poverty cited as a factor. drop the year before, according to the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) annual snapshot of the registered workforce. Student numbers fell by 2.7%

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

rise in real-terms council spending power that the government has promised for 2025-26. However, this is due to cover all authorities – including those with no social services responsibilities – for the increased costs of all of their services. per hour, in April 2025.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Councils were already planning to make £1.4bn in adult social care savings next year before learning of the added pressures on the sector brought about by the government’s Budget. Budget impact on social care Reeves said that councils’ available resource would increase by 3.2%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

“And I expect substantial progress to be made before then in ending placements of existing for-profit children’s homes and fostering services prior to 2030 in areas that have sufficiency for that not-for-profit provision, and I will be making sure that we get to that place as quickly as we possibly can.”

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dedicated funding for adult social care in England will rise by just over £1bn next year, according to government plans. The funding was set out in a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) policy statement on the local government finance settlement for 2025-26 , published last week.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. This is up by almost £4bn on 2023-24, a rise of 6.5% in cash terms, which the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said amounted to a 4.7%

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the measures today, alongside news that councils would receive at least an extra £600m in grant funding for social care in 2025-26. This was part of a wider grant package worth £1.3bn which, along with other revenue increases, would give local government a real-terms rise in resource of about 3.2%

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The “dire state of social care” is among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report designed to provide a blueprint for a 10-year plan for the health service.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

The government has readvertised the chief social worker for adults position at a higher salary , six months after it started recruiting for a successor to Lyn Romeo. Having a proven track record of operating successfully in a senior leadership role within social work, adult social care or local government.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An extra 200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. Were all authorities to do so, this would yield about 970m, some of which would be available for adult social care.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For the first time since at least 2017, less than half (48.4%) of social workers were defined as “case holders”, meaning they were neither senior practitioners nor a manager, down from 52% in 2019. The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Similar rights exist in Wales under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. Long waits and lack of support following assessments Carers UK’s found that 23% of carers had had an assessment in the previous 12 months, though only 41% had sought help from adult social services for their caring role.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2025

However, levels of international recruitment have fallen since March 2024, when the government banned adult social care staff on new or extended health and care visas from bringing partners or children to the UK. Rapid fall in level of overseas recruitment These falls were largely driven by the recruitment of staff from abroad.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A “parallel to the care system” for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, under which they would be accommodated by ministers, is to be be scrapped by the government. Under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the government can specify scientific checks that may be used as part of age assessments.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The government has granted almost one in five English councils ‘exceptional financial support’ (EFS) to help them balance their books in 2025-26. We desperately need a sustainable solution to the crisis in local government finance, which has been years in the making. increase in the national living wage (NLW).

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

CQC deputy directors Amanda Stride and Lella Andrews made the comments in a presentation to a Local Government Association webinar on its assessment system for councils in England. There is no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . These scores inform the overall rating.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The government has told the Care Quality Commission to rate local authorities on their performance in adult social care under its new assessment system, launching later this year. However, many directors of adult social services favoured the regulator providing them with a “narrative” judgment, without an overall rating.

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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.

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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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Community Care

JULY 17, 2023

Proposals to legally limit children’s social workers’ caseloads have been rejected by the Welsh Government. Deputy minister for social services Julie Morgan also said action was already being taken to improve support for practitioners and enhance workforce planning.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Social care leaders have sounded the alarm over a planned 120% hike in the fees they must pay to sponsor overseas staff to work for them on skilled worker visas. The government has tabled legislation to raise the certificate of sponsorship fee from 239 to 525, though it has not confirmed the implementation date.

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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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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. per hour per social care employee. Related articles. percentage points from September 2021 to March 2022 – but this was reducing profitability.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Social work assistants would be regulated in Scotland under plans issued for consultation. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register.

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MARCH 3, 2025

The Care Quality Commission has issued the first outstanding rating for a council since it resumed assessing local authority adult social services at the end of 2023. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Impact of government cash and priorities While the number of council adult social services staff has also increased in each of the past two years, the number of social workers has risen at a faster rate. Alongside the rising numbers of staff, the vacancy rate for adults’ fell markedly, from 10.5% in 2022-23 to 8.8%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. By some estimates, nationwide, there may be as many children in hidden foster care/blackmail placements as there are in the kind where the numbers are officially reported to the federal government and the public.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ”

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States had other sources of federal reimbursement for these programs, such as Title IV-B, the Social Services Block Grant, and TANF. But above all, these services were funded by Medicaid, a federal entitlement program that receives the same federal match as Title IV-E. Clearly, priorities are out of whack.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 2, 2022

The People’s Global Summit recognises that the pledges made by governments since the founding of the United Nations – the pillars of peace, development and human rights – have facilitated crucial steps forward but have not yet been realised. Nature has been degraded, leading to climate warming and environmental destruction.

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JULY 5, 2024

This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.” Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Rising costs and demand are a huge strain on council budgets and services face ‘intolerable pressures’, says Adass England’s overstretched and creaking adult social care services need urgent government intervention to stabilise them financially as rising costs and demand play havoc with council budgets, care bosses have warned.

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