Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. Most of the grant is spent on adults’ services.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 218

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

‘One Deal for Social Work’ The One Deal for Social Work ‘s aims were backed by leadership body Social Work Scotland while the Scottish Government did not rule out the introduction of national terms and conditions for practitioners. . Increases in the latter are negotiated by employers’ body COSLA and unions each year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Scottish Government must pause its ‘disruptive’ plans to remove social care from council control, in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in 2023-24. increase in cash terms and 1.3% rise in real terms. increase in cash terms and 1.3% rise in real terms.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. The extent of the abuse Victoria had suffered shocked the country.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 331

Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Andrew Gwynne told the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring seminar that, should the party win the forthcoming election, it would “seek to introduce” the changes first conceived of by economist Andrew Dilnot in a 2011 report for the then coalition government.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Reduced service capacity Workforce shortages had resulted in reduced service capacity. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

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Home Care Government Disability Hospitals 322

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

and will be worth £1,800 a year in cash terms for full-time workers. and will be worth £1,800 a year in cash terms for full-time workers. and will be worth £1,800 a year in cash terms for full-time workers. Many more care staff, earning between £10.42 and £10.41 earlier this year. and £10.41 earlier this year.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The government is urging more councils and children’s trusts to test its planned five-year programme of support for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in children’s services. Appoint a minimum of 20 NQSWs in children’s services each year. They will get £50,000 for taking part. ECF @education.gov.uk

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most home care providers have seen a fall in the number of hours of care councils have commissioned from them, research has found. Half of agencies (48%) reported a fall of 25% in the number of hours of care available to them to deliver, with a further 32% reporting decreases of less than this, found the Homecare Association.

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Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

However, the company, owned by private equity firm Stirling Spring Capital Partners, said it had complied with commissioners’ contractual terms and that no decisions were made without the agreement of the local authorities and children’s social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Split views on reforms Charities have criticised the supported accommodation reforms as inadequate and discriminatory because they do not require services to offer ‘care’ to 16- and 17-year-olds, as children’s homes must do. The number placed in independent or semi-independent settings more than doubled, from 2,120 to 4,450.

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Foster Care Government Social Services Social Services 237

Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

However, there was a fall of 4.3% (7,255) in the number of requests resulting in the person receiving long-term care, to 162,590. This contributed to a drop of 2.8% (23,325) in the overall number of people receiving long-term care, to 817,915, the lowest number since 2015-16. rise from 2020-21 to 2021-22, to 1,978,550.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Despite the focus of current government reforms on intervening early to help children stay with their families, they are insufficiently focused on those on child in need (CIN) plans, said the rights watchdog. “It is vital that we get things right for children on child in need plans,” said de Souza.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. A southern unitary authority calculated there was a gap £100-135 per week gap for residential care, a £0.59

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Nursing Home Home Care Government Hospitals 247

Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. However, they also warned that it was too little to tackle short-term pressures on services and no substitute for longer-term investment.

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Government Administration Disability Hospitals 130

Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased funding for adult social care The research was a test of the impact on providers of a 10% real-terms budgeted increase in adult social care spending by councils in 2023-24, on the back of significant extra government funding. increase in the national living wage (NLW), amid widespread concerns that the same will be true of the 9.8%

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

About 14,000 hospital beds in England are occupied by a person medically fit for discharge, up by one-third on pre-pandemic levels, said the delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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Hospitals Government Home Care Social Worker 237

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While Hunt has not announced the details of any cuts – and how far they will fall on local authorities – the economic backdrop is much worse than in the 2010s because of rising inflation, which has reduced the real-terms value of councils’ budgets. Jeremy Hunt. then to 9.9% as of August this year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Know yourself in terms of your areas of interest and what brought you into this. But also, it’s okay that you don’t stay in a team or a service and that you try different things. Because that’s what helps with resilience and that’s what gives you that motivation. Build, grow and follow your areas of interest and passion.

Social Worker 264

Social Worker 264

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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Disability Social Worker Government Foster Care 325

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’re thinking of doing social work in the family service centre (FSC). Just as your GP doctor would see any ailment you had before deciding where best to direct you, or to help you, the FSC social worker is also similar. And until this client feels assured of what will happen, I don’t think I can leave.

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Social Worker Domestic Violence Administration Case Management 130

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Mounting workforce pressures The initiative comes with the latest workforce figures for English local authorities revealing a deteriorating picture across children’s and adults’ services, including that: One in five (20%) full-time equivalent children’s services posts were vacant as of September 2022, up from 16.7%

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Social Worker Diversity Government Interviewing 257

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. During this time, he took part in many voluntary projects, including helping young people in remand and going to Italy on a volunteering trip.

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Interviewing Social Worker Psychiatric Adoption 191

Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

Care worker pay should be raised, charges for services cut and people be provided with clear rights to support as part of a shift to a more personalised, accessible and fair adult social care system, set out today. “We need to act now to save social care. “We need to act now to save social care. Redesign and reward the workforce.

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Diversity Consultation Government Social Services 194

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This has been because of a lack of appropriate placements to meet their needs, whether in open or secure children’s homes or specialist tier 4 child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Services are failing to respond to their needs – not just at points of crisis but at earlier stages in their lives and throughout adolescence.

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Social Worker Recovery Mental Health Psychology 330

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In a focused visit the following year, covering children in need of help and protection, Ofsted found caseloads were still too high, despite progress made in reducing them. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5

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Social Worker Foster Care Interviewing Diversity 282

Community Care

APRIL 18, 2023

John Pearce’s year as Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) promises to be an eventful one. The Durham director formally assumed the role today at a presidential reception alongside his fellow children’s services leaders. This came out in February, with the consultation on it due to close next month.

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Social Worker Government Consultation Engagement 320

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Responding to last week’s announcement, Homecare Association chief executive Dr Jane Towson said: “Ultimately it is the unfavourable pay and terms and conditions of employment experienced by the workforce that has led to a shortage of homecare workers, resulting in inadequate homecare capacity. 52% rise in vacancies.

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Hospital Discharges Government Recovery Hospitals 225

Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

Brian Bell, chair, Migration Advisory Committee (credit: HM Government) In his BBC interview, he said that while immigration had resulted in social care services being provided that would not have been otherwise, overseas staff were enabling the government to get away with not funding social care properly, while some were also facing exploitation.

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Government Interviewing 171

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

This means that support for kinship care families often falls short of what is needed to help them cope, or is missing altogether. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. A consequence of crisis. The need for specialist practitioners.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 305

Community Care

JANUARY 28, 2022

Relationship-based practice and edge of care services are helping keep the number of children entering care below the long-term average, councils have said. The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) said many councils were investing in programmes to help families stay together where it is safe to do so.

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Adoption Government Social Worker 262

Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

DfE children in need census 2023: key figures Council children’s services received 640,430 social care referrals in 2022-23, down 1.5% (9,840) on 2021-22. The number of annual child protection enquiries has hit a new high but the proportion of those finding abuse or neglect has continued to fall, official figures show. in 2021-22.

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Government Social Worker Mental Health University 311

Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

The PSW network’s intervention comes on the back of the number of medically fit people awaiting discharge reaching 14,000 in early January – the highest level on record – due to a lack of social care, community health and other services to support them on their return home.

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Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 282

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From supporting our brilliant foster carers, kinship carers and social workers to getting early help to families and improving children’s homes, we want every child to get the support and protection they need.” DfE social care strategy: key points Funding: £200m in funding over two years.

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Social Worker Consultation Government Foster Care 325

Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

The terms of reference for the 16-month review say caseloads should be examined to identify whether other professionals could be introduced into teams largely staffed by social workers currently. So, some of the issues in NI will be similar to what’s happening elsewhere but how to address them might not necessarily be the same.”.

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Government University Engagement Social Worker 253

Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kate Shoesmith, deputy chief executive, the REC By Kate Shoesmith We welcome the fact that the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) is no longer calling for curbs on agency social work in England to be implemented earlier than the government’s April 2024 target date. What are the proposed rules on agency work?

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Social Worker Engagement 179

Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

The government will give the NHS an extra £200m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system. Hunt announces two-year care cap delay to help councils deliver 200,000 extra care packages. Related articles. NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding.

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Hospital Discharges Rehabilitation Hospitals Home Care 247