Community Care

APRIL 7, 2025

Last year, it reported that there was a 1bn shortfall between the fees paid by councils and NHS commissioners in England and the amount home care providers needed to pay staff at least the NLW, meet other costs and make a minimum profit or surplus.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2025

In response to the launch of the digital qualification, Homecare Association chief executive Jane Townson said: The integration of appropriate technology in home care represents a vital opportunity to improve people’s lives while addressing significant challenges in our sector.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We’re already seeing evidence of care visits being shortened; non-compliance with the minimum wage; providers exiting contracts; and providers ceasing to trade.” ” She called on the government to exempt home care providers from the NICs increase and fully fund the increase to the NLW.

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Relias

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“We don’t have the number of employees that it currently takes to meet the care needs of the market.”. In terms of home care aides, the 2020 turnover rate reached 36.5%, according to highlights from a salary report by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and its survey partner.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. ADASS May 2022 survey: key findings.

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The Guardian

APRIL 19, 2022

The federal government last year pledged $6.5bn to fund an extra 80,000 home care packages to alleviate the huge unmet demand from Australia’s ageing population, after the royal commission warned of “unacceptable” delays. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed One of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits.

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Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

in 2025-26, significantly as a result of the rises in employer NICs and the NLW, though the association has also increased its minimum profit margin from 5% to 7%, based on evidence from care market analysts LaingBuisson around current profit levels. This will rise from 28.53 this year to 32.14

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In Wales, there is a single capital limit for accessing residential care – 50,000 – below which people’s assets are protected from care charges, though this has not risen since 2019.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” She added that the association’s research had found that there was a £1.08bn deficit between commissioner fees in England and the amount home care providers needed to pay the existing NLW of £11.44, cover costs and turn a 5% profit. These decisions risk sending many over the edge.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. It said authorities were spreading the home care hours they commissioned among multiple providers, with some contracting with about 200 organisations.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support. But while councils may have exposed themselves to legal challenge, no such litigation took place – to the authors’ knowledge – besides adverse decisions from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

This will include investing in home care in Warwickshire, rehabilitation and reablement in Leeds and additional support for people with dementia in Greater Manchester. NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding. Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

Best practice would be for the team to include a core group of staff responsible for complex case management, with a care co-ordinator assigned to each person, and an extended team who could be drawn upon for specialist support.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The SSSC currently regulates about 176,500 of the approximately 213,000 people working in the sector in Scotland, including social workers, social work students, children’s and adults’ residential care staff, day care workers in children’s services and adult home care workers.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care Vulnerable people face being denied basic preventive social care at home due to a wave of rapid discharges from hospitals that is sucking up resources, council bosses have warned.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2023

The vacancy rate for adult care staff in England climbed from 7% to 10.7% in October 2022, according to Skills for Care data from a selection of providers. The situation is particularly bad in home care, where 14.1% of care home and home care staff, in the week up to 14 December 2022.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. Sustainability plans due The next stage of the fair cost process is for councils to publish market sustainability plans by 27 March 2023.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. The finding was based on comparing data from 99% of councils and 52% of NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) against the association’s the minimum price for home care, which was £25.95

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The Guardian

JULY 12, 2023

One in five firms see risk of financial failure in next six months due to sums owed by NHS and councils Dozens of home care companies in England fear collapse because invoices are going unpaid by councils and the NHS.

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Community Care

MARCH 13, 2025

Requirements ‘will exacerbate recruitment challenges’ However, the Homecare Association said the requirements would “further exacerbate recruitment challenges for home care providers already struggling with an unsustainable commissioning system” This is a reference to the gap between the fees paid to providers by NHS and local (..)

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

The money is on top of £500m already earmarked for ICBs and councils to clear hospital beds, part of which was allocated last month and which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said would be well spent on home care, in order to reduce delayed discharges. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.” But the problem with “Rule #23” is it only works if newer data are not available – so we have to take the agency’s word for it. Tough luck, DCS: In this case, we have the data.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.

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Relias

MAY 6, 2022

Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. Medicare officials have identified 14 target areas as “risky” for improper payment, Cooley said, including three new ones in 2021. Some of these target areas include: Lengthy stays. Live discharges where a patient is not terminally ill or for revocation.

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The Guardian

JUNE 29, 2022

Home care helps more than 200,000 older Australians stay at home, playing a critical role in relieving pressure on Australia’s residential aged care system and ensuring independence for the nation’s ageing population.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Out-of-home placement may be necessary when less restrictive services have not adequately addressed an adopted child’s needs.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

The letter follows concerns from social care leaders about the government’s allocation of £200m to the NHS this winter to help reduce delays by block-booking care home placements for up to four weeks. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 12, 2022

Including kin and extended family members in case planning expands placement and permanency options for children and youth when in-home care is not feasible. Investing in culturally appropriate services and supports for relative and kin caregivers may help reinforce a child’s cultural identity and traditions.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

To learn more about becoming a CASA volunteer in your community visit CASA’s website.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dementia care is one of the most challenging types of patient care in every setting — from in-home care to assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. Having a care team with the competence to handle the complex challenges of people living with dementia is vital to providing respectful and optimal care.

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