Swhelper

OCTOBER 26, 2021

View Full Article - The “Money in Politics” Debate and Effective Ways to Improve Local Democracy in America. Local elections are one way this happens, as citizens select about half a million elected officials, one for every 450 adults, to serve in more than 85,000 U.S. local governments. But despite their […].

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The Guardian

JUNE 13, 2023

My husband had stage 4 cancer at 49, but I recall that I was relieved not to have to worry about money, as we were protected by sick pay. Thinking about how we will pay for his future care keeps me awake at night.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

To suggest that foster youth are better off with a little money instead of a lot of love strikes me as suggesting that foster youth, who are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite, are a little less human than other young people. And that’s the heart of the matter.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

And less than 18 months out from the target date, the DHSC has not published any plan for implementation or set out how it would find the money to finance the changes. This casts significant doubt on whether it will start the process of implementation before the election, which is likely to take place by November 2024 at the latest.

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Social Work Bubble

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

So how can we make money in this field? We are highly skilled and educated professionals, and the money is out there. Social workers are often told, alongside the pity glance, that the field is low pay & you’ll burn yourself out trying to survive. Micro Level.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 4, 2021

After years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’ Craig Cheney sits slumped in his chair, with a look of dejection in place of his usually cheery demeanour.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

Provider leaders and union UNISON were more critical of the news, accusing ministers of taking a short-term approach to resourcing authorities. ”

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This was enabled by the government diverting money from reforming the social care charging system to frontline services, and permitting authorities to raise council tax by 5% this year without a referendum, with some of the proceeds ring-fenced for adults’ services. However, the total then grew to 470,000 by August 2023.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2024

The money announced by Hunt comprises £45m in match funding for local authorities to build homes providing an additional 200 placements, plus £120m for maintaining the children’s secure home network and rebuilding two of these homes: Atkinson in Devon and Swanwick Lodge in Hampshire.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” The situation prompted widespread calls for the government to not only find more money for the sector in next month’s autumn statement but also provide long-term investment in social care. .

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Non-profit technology solutions have grown dramatically in the last two years. After implementing digital tools, more than 44% of non-profit executives reported increased organizational growth and efficiency. According to reports, non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are leveraging technology to increase their income generation.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Extra funding ‘welcome but not enough’ This was enabled by the government diverting money from reforming the social care charging system to frontline services, and permitting authorities to raise council tax by 5% this year without a referendum, with some of the proceeds ring-fenced for adults’ services.

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2022

Call for ‘seismic change’ in social care system after Robert McGuinness’s use of funds Related: How did Bolton children’s home receive Ofsted licence then close just months later?

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Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

Money is the one thing we don’t often talk about when we are in social work. You may think that because you’ve joined the non profit sector, you can’t talk about money. And you can’t think about money. If you’re already in social work, and you’re wondering about how to get more money, this one is also for you. Well, well.

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Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

The Guardian

APRIL 16, 2024

£25bn of public money would have been saved between 2019 and 2023 if north had same care entry rates as south, report says One in every 52 children in Blackpool are in care compared with one in 140 across England, leading to calls for more to be done to urgently tackle the widening north-south divide , brought on by “decades of underinvestment”.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2023

Hospitals can’t discharge patients because councils don’t have the funds to facilitate care afterwards. It’s a perfect storm of neglect Last Thursday, I spoke to a hospital doctor based in north-east England working in acute medicine, a catch-all term that takes in most conditions that present as emergencies, from heart attacks to kidney failure.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

500m the latest ‘sticking plaster’ McClinton said the money needed to be provided urgently. However, it is yet to decide how the funding will be distributed – including how far it will be allocated through councils or NHS integrated care boards – let alone provide it to local leaders.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Home Care 237

The Guardian

APRIL 19, 2024

Sissay, whose bestselling memoir My Name Is Why was a reflection on his own childhood in care, said the government had “cherrypicked” from the 2022 MacAlister review , despite the report putting forward costed recommendations that would save money in the longer term. Continue reading.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Councils ‘must retain money if reforms delayed’ Organisations including the Local Government Association, County Councils Network and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services also argued that the funding allocated for the reforms should be retained by councils during any delay, to invest in core social care services.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2024

While most councils would like to do more to support reunification – both on principle and to save money on care placements – the government wasn’t supporting them to prioritise it, said the NSPCC and Action for Children.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A DfE spokesperson said: “We are taking a wide range of action to support new and existing foster parents by raising financial allowances above inflation and reducing tax rates to ensure they have more money in their pocket. “We “Retention is perhaps even more important than recruitment,” he said.

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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. ” ‘Disappointing’ narrative on social care.

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Rehabilitation Hospitals Government Home Care 278

Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will need to provide the DHSC with initial and finals report on how they have spent the money in the MSIF and made progress against all four target areas. However, provider body Care England has argued that councils should be able to find the money to meet the fair cost.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

Notably, it halved its proposed investment in developing the skills and wellbeing of the workforce, from £500m to £250m, and left £600m of the £1.7bn set aside for reform unallocated, prompting fears this money would be lost to social care. Instead, they will need to report on how they have spent the money, and with what effect, in May 2024.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

Today it set out the process through which councils could claim and then use the money. The DHSC trailed the adult social work apprenticeship fund earlier this month , as part of a wider £20m package that will also fund the training of nurses in adult social care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Review lead Josh MacAlister’s contract with the Department for Education states that his recommendations cannot assume more resource across government, though allows for additional investment in children’s social care so long as it saves money elsewhere in government over time.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Resource boost ‘inadequate’, say council heads However, councils have retorted that the extra money is inadequate, both because of levels of demand and increased costs.

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2024

Social care demand causing ‘extremely challenging’ situation However, council leader Susan Hinchcliffe warned: “This is not free money; it has to be paid back. The authority said this meant it would be able to balance its budget in both of these years.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Agency social work: the introduction of national rules limiting councils’ use of locum staff , including regional caps on what authorities pay agencies, to save money and reduce staff turnover.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

Controversial value-for-money claims. Last year, social work lecturer Robin Sen raised concerns with the UK Statistics Authority about the DfE’s subsequent use of the value for money claims in correspondence with stakeholders as “indicative early findings”, but without the caveats set out in the evaluation.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As you start to plan where you’ll log into your classes and get your tech set up, we’d like to offer you some budget tips to save money and prioritize your spending. If you’re just starting your online MSW program, congratulations!

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The Guardian

JANUARY 24, 2024

Money comes after Tory MPs write to PM demanding funds to prevent cuts to services as financial crisis worsens in election year UK politics live – latest updates Councils in England are to be handed an extra £500m in funding amid a worsening financial crisis at town halls across the country.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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Hospital Discharges Government Disability Hospitals 246

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The regulator asked the department for the money to enable it to investigate remaining FtP cases it took over from its predecessor, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), in December 2019. Social Work England will use some of the DfE money to complete over 100 more legacy investigations.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Strike action ‘forced improved offer’ Johanna Baxter, UNISON Scotland’s head of local government, said: “UNISON members have spoken and voted overwhelmingly to accept the improved pay offer and we will now press COSLA to get this money into members pay packets as quickly as possible.

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