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Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

Community Care

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the 2.1bn improved BCF grant which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge and 0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

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£1bn boost to adult social care funding ‘not enough to cover costs’, warn leaders

Community Care

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the £2.1bn improved BCF – which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge – and £0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

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First council rated outstanding since return of CQC adult social care assessments

Community Care

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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65,000 adults waiting at least six months for assessment as unmet needs mount, warns ADASS

Community Care

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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Social worker numbers hit new record high in adults’ services

Community Care

Ministers tasked councils with focusing their increased resource on a few priorities: increasing the size of the wider adult social care workforce, boosting fees for providers, reducing the number of delayed hospital discharges and cutting waiting times for services.

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Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

Community Care

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.

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£200m for NHS to buy short-term care placements to speed up discharge

Community Care

Integrated care boards (ICBs) will be able to use the money to buy beds in care homes or other settings for up to four weeks in order to speed up hospital discharges, freeing up beds to admit people stuck in accident and emergency departments.