Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And last year, she was named the social justice advocate of the year at the Social Worker of the Year Awards for her work championing the rights of people with learning disabilities to vote. I felt strongly that our role as social workers was to look at what’s the biggest decision that somebody can be involved with.

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Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 322

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.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can listen to her full interview here.

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Disability Social Worker Interviewing Advocacy 201

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Therapist 209