Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The guidance, for practitioners employed by the Home Office at the Kent intake unit (KIU), did not provide for age assessments to be carried out with adequate safeguards for the unaccompanied claimants concerned.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2023

The Home Office said its National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) will start operating, initially, in the London and West Midlands, before being rolled out to the rest of the country once its full complement of 40 social workers had been recruited. This was true of: 48% of resolved cases (337 out of 701) in 2020.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government has launched a review into whether people receiving care at home have adequate protections from abuse by those providing it. Under the terms of reference, the review will cover all people receiving care at home, including in supported living or other housing with care arrangements, in England.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ofsted has called on the government to extend its powers to enable it to scrutinise social care groups that run multiple children’s homes. The inspectorate said the change was necessary to fill a “gap in accountability” left by the current regime, in which Ofsted separately inspects children’s homes run by the same provider.

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Community Care

APRIL 25, 2023

More and more looked-after children are being placed far from home, with increased risk of lower wellbeing, according to research issued today. Children in care and care leavers charity Become published the findings today as it launched a campaign, #GoneTooFar, to end inappropriate placements far from home in England.

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. However, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) raised concerns about the focus on discharging people to care homes in the latest fund.

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Rehabilitation Hospitals Government Home Care 285

The Guardian

MARCH 26, 2024

‘Shocking’ system for awarding care worker visas leaves people at risk of exploitation, inspection report says A damning inspection report has found multiple failures in the Home Office’s system for awarding care worker visas, including 275 granted to a care home that did not exist.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Home Office has been housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels unlawfully since December 2021, the High Court has ruled. He also ordered the Home Office and Kent to jointly pay court costs – valued at £50,000 – to ECPAT UK. of their child population to those below that threshold.

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Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

The government has increased weekly payments for care home residents with nursing needs by 11.5% The Department of Health and Social Care will also fund £87m in back payments for NHS-funded nursing care (FNC), on the back of research it conducted with providers on the costs of nursing services within care homes.

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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. Rehabilitation can work in a residential setting but it needs to be in a focused unit with the right staffing.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Currently unregulated services for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers would be inspected a third as often as children’s homes, once requirements for them to register with Ofsted come into force next year, under government plans. No requirement for management qualification.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 1, 2022

Some young people don’t leave home. They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. Some flea at a young age, teenagers, not yet fully formed, not yet adults. Not yet with all supports in place. They are at tremendous risk even when once fled. Mere survival, let alone exploitation challenge them.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2022

The government risks widespread care home closures if it doesn’t provide councils with significantly more funding to pay providers a “fair cost of care”, a report has warned. The CCN report said £378m of the funding was allocated annually for residential and nursing homes.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Upon returning home to be asked what one got done that day, is totally devoid of understanding the exhaustion of nary a break, continuous responsibility, and the averting of constant potential crises.

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Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. That was the message from the Homecare Association as it announced that the minimum for 2023-24 would be £25.95 , up from £23.20

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Home Care Hospital Discharges Disability Hospitals 211

The Guardian

APRIL 13, 2024

Observer investigation finds that private companies made £105m despite not being registered with Ofsted Hundreds of extremely vulnerable school-age children in England are being sent to illegal, unregulated homes every year because of a chronic shortage of places in secure local authority units.

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Schools 110

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Her children are home with her. We need to look in your home. Terrified, she reluctantly opens the door and steps aside, and the investigators walk into her home.

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Community Care

MARCH 9, 2022

Local authorities are struggling to manage the children’s homes market, amid a shortage of suitable placements, according to a study. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister. published yesterday. Related articles. Government should be required to ensure enough secure placements, says Children’s Commissioner.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

delegated healthcare activities is rooted in a deep-seated belief in our clients’ right to additional healthcare needs supported in their own homes." Image created by freepik.com ] Domiciliary delegation In recent years, the concept of supporting healthcare activities at home has gained significant traction,and for good reason.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Last month, an Ofsted report said nine out of 10 councils often struggle to find homes for children with complex needs, with some local authorities having to resort to unregistered placements as an alternative to registered care homes. Continue reading.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

That child, now well into their twenties remains living at home. Creating the conditions to take care for themselves may mean having them leave the home. There has been a history of failed attempts with school and work. Not spoken about until seriously probed are the bouts of depression and/or anxiety. Maybe suicidal behavior.

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Self-harm Disability Private Practice Hospitals 147

The Guardian

APRIL 13, 2024

But the police warned that Jasmine (not her real name) is being “emotionally abused” by staff in the home, where she has been living for just over a month. She is at risk of child sexual exploitation. In the past, she has run away, taken hard drugs and been sexually assaulted.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Fee income for 20 largest operators – many private equity-owned – soars as councils struggle to meet costs The biggest private providers of children’s homes in England made profits of more than £300m last year, as concern mounts over the conditions some children are being placed in and the spiralling costs for councils.

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Government 111

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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The Guardian

APRIL 17, 2024

Marcus Hanlin, 57, was on a regime at Cheddar Grove nursing home in Bristol that included him only eating pureed meals and being kept away from food preparation areas because of a risk of choking and swallowing issues.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

On April 6, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report entitled The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents , Families, and Staff. Posted April 22, 2022. Study sponsors included the Commonwealth Fund and the John A Hartford Foundation.

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The Guardian

MARCH 17, 2024

Helen visits Belong Chester, a multigenerational care home in Chester’s city centre. Sue Egersdorff, one of the founders of the care home, tells Helen that many residents are reserved when they arrive but blossom when they make friends with the nursery children. Is the UK missing out on the benefits of intergenerational living?

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Social Care

JUNE 27, 2022

Close Care Home residents get involved in outdoor celebrations with the local community. This month’s Care Home Open Week can play a part in raising wider awareness of its value. Going to a care home need not be scary, they are in fact nice places - regulated on their ability to care. Raising awareness, dispelling fear.

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Engagement 93

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Following its November 12 release of guidance for nursing home visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS released three versions of frequently asked questions (FAQs) clarifying the guidance. The early January FAQs also discouraged large gatherings (within nursing homes) in which physical distancing cannot be maintained.

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Nursing Home Medicare Medicaid Self-harm 117

The Guardian

JANUARY 17, 2023

Gordon Sanders owns Runwood Homes, the UK’s sixth largest for-profit care home group, which charges residents more than £1,000 a week, with bills often covered by the taxpayer.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here’s how to find a home you can afford Jim Kirby was a cautious saver all his life, but now aged 84 he is nearly broke because of £86,400-a-year care home fees and an exhausting battle to get the state to make a contribution. The fees pay for his wife, Maureen, who since September 2021 has been in a £7,200-a-month nursing home.

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Nursing Home 90

The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2023

Call for inquiry after Observer investigation uncovers scale of trafficking by criminal gangs Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Whitegates Care Centre defends distributing the funeral directors’ cards, described by one relative as ‘appalling’ A firm of funeral directors sent Valentine’s Day cards to residents of a care home, in what has been described as an “appalling stunt” that the undertakers have admitted was “misjudged”.

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CAPC

JUNE 22, 2022

How palliative care clinicians and payers in California worked together to reduce unwanted variation and confusion in home-based palliative care.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There’s a new opportunity for occupational therapists practicing in home health settings. OTs working in home health can initiate the start of care in more situations beginning in 2022 under changes to the Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs). OT is not a qualified stand-alone home health service under Medicare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two girls ran from a group home in Arizona. 7, two girls, one age 17, the other 15, ran away from a group home in Mesa Arizona. The only solution the operator of the group home can offer is to imply that such places should be able to be more like jails. Their bodies were found here. We don’t know what, if anything, DCS did.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

With this in mind, earlier this year, the team at BASW England launched new resources for social workers, as part of the Homes not hospitals campaign, created with the input of families with lived experience and our partners from across the sector. Home not hospitals’ resources.

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