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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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%. in February and 7.6% in May 2021.
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