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MAY 2, 2024

Increasing qualifications levels for the adult social care workforce – linked to higher pay – is among the ideas under consideration by the group developing a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce. ” Pay and development key to retention Pearson said there was evidence of what worked in promoting retention.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2024

Exploitation concerns In her 2023-24 strategy, the government’s director of labour market enforcement, Margaret Beels, reported increased use of illegal recruitment fees, debt bondage – where people work for little or no money to pay off a debt – wage underpayment and other forms of labour exploitation within social care.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

500m the latest ‘sticking plaster’ McClinton said the money needed to be provided urgently. ” McClinton also highlighted the risks in delaying the reforms, suggesting it would leave the question of the balance of responsibility for paying for care between the state and the individual unresolved.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Local Government Association has estimated that this will add £1.6bn to adult social care costs, because of the need to fund commissioned providers to pay staff the NLW. However, the settlement was widely seen as inadequate by council leaders and experts , particularly because of this April’s 9.8% ”

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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. The remaining £162m is a continuation of a sum allocated in 2022-23 to help councils work towards paying providers a fair cost of care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

Following inconclusive talks brokered by mediation service ACAS, the family courts body has implemented its offer for 2022-23 without resolving its pay dispute and in the face of overwhelming opposition from union members, said Napo and UNISON. Our position has always been that the employer cannot impose the pay award.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

The most significant staffing pressure, reported by 87% of providers, was the need to increase pay in line with rises in the statutory national living wage (NLW) or the voluntary real living wage or London living wage. “When money is made available it simply isn’t cutting through. The NLW rose from £9.50 per hour last year, a 9.7%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Funding is not keeping up with people’s needs, so fewer can access care and people who can’t afford to pay for care themselves are more likely to be going without the support they need.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Labour has said it remains committed to it but has not set out how it would pay for it. While Labour’s shadow care minister, Andrew Gwynne, told last week’s spring seminar that Labour remained committed to the reform, the party has not set out how it will pay for it within the constraints of its tight fiscal policy.

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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. charge on the pay bill of larger employers, including councils. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The U-turn means that employers will remain responsible for ensuring that agency workers who provide their services through a company pay appropriate levels of tax. The 2017 reforms were designed to tackle what the government described as “widespread non-compliance” with IR35.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The government has given the adult social care workforce a £300m boost through the winter which providers can use to increase staffing numbers or pay. The money, which lasts until March 2022, almost trebles winter workforce funding, topping up the the £162.5m Pay, bonuses and more staff.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

She said that, for people receiving means-tested support from their local authority, only what they pay in care charges will contribute to the £86,000 cap. It has now been revealed that the poorest pensioners will have to pay even more, something Andrew Dilnot – who proposed the cap – explicitly ruled out because it was so unfair.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The government said it would be providing an additional £2bn in social care grant in 2023-24 compared with 2022-23, though most of it is not new money. The issue is widely linked to low pay, with the median hourly wage for independent sector care staff being £9.50 How 2023-24 council funding settlement for breaks down.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. The government has also made no provision to increase pay, aside from annual increases in the national living wage, saying this was a matter for employers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In an analysis published after the spending review , the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that, discounting this money, existing council services, including social care, would only be receiving a rise of 1.8% Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. in real terms a year, lower than the 3.3%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “For the first time in history we are stopping people having to pay unlimited quantities for their care. Compared to the current system more people will be supported with their social care costs, have greater certainty over what they need to pay and receive higher quality care.”.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The figure is based on an examination of cost of care exercises that councils carried out recently to determine sustainable fee rates for these services and identify how far they were from paying them. “Nor do the figures account for the urgent need for improved pay, terms and conditions of employment for care workers.”

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

.” He also said it was the only fair plan, as the alternative would involve people in different parts of the country, contributing the same amount towards their care, hitting the cap at different times based on how much their local authority was paying.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Responding to last week’s announcement, Homecare Association chief executive Dr Jane Towson said: “Ultimately it is the unfavourable pay and terms and conditions of employment experienced by the workforce that has led to a shortage of homecare workers, resulting in inadequate homecare capacity. ”

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

Care worker pay should be raised, charges for services cut and people be provided with clear rights to support as part of a shift to a more personalised, accessible and fair adult social care system, set out today. However, the report stressed that the sector had many strengths, including providing jobs for 1.5m

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. But in every other respect it’s simply stealing money from some of those who need it most.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

It is too easy for agencies to snap up social workers at inflated pay rates and offer them around. In an echo of comments made last year by his predecessor as ADCS president , Charlotte Ramsden, Crocker suggested the introduction of national pay rates to tackle the problem. “We That would be a helpful thing. Related articles.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, Truss pledged to reverse the rise in national insurance, implying that the government would borrow the money to fund the increase. However, in a letter to Truss published yesterday, NHS Providers, which represents trusts, said that the NHS needed more funding to tackle its own workforce shortages and fully fund pay awards.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of the agreements drawn up this year, each sets pay caps for agency workers and involves a pledge not to actively headhunt social workers from fellow signatory authorities. It’s not just about the money – we’ve heard concerns about quality and what you are buying.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alongside the two-year delay in the charging reforms, the government has scaled back work on an accompanying drive to ensure councils pay providers a fair cost of care, which is designed to close the gap between the higher fees typically levied on self-funders and rates paid by the state. .” ‘Fair cost’ work scaled back.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 24, 2022

Health expert says NHS needs money too and diverting promised £13bn is not a sustainable solution Politics live: latest updates Liz Truss would be “robbing Peter to pay Paul” if she diverted £13bn of funding for the NHS to deal with a Covid backlog in social care, experts have said.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Increase in care ‘not keeping pace with need’ ADASS hailed the improvements as a testament to the hard work of adults’ services teams as well as the consequence of £700m in short-term government winter money to fund care packages for people so they could leave hospital.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This is despite the Competition and Markets Authority calling for a shift in placements from agencies to local authorities on value for money grounds , in the final report of its study of the children’s social care market, issued in March. Call for better training and pay. Who can survive on £130 a week and be at home all day?”.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Rowan Adams responds to Polly Toynbee’s suggestion that ‘the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets’ Polly Toynbee says that to pay for pensions and care, “the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets” and that “one in five over-65s live in households with assets worth more than £1m” ( During Covid, (..)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In June, Madeline Howe had $40,000 in student loan debt she was paying on loans for a master’s degree in social work. Though this may sound akin to winning the lottery, it happened after years of Howe struggling to pay the $84,000 it cost to achieve her graduate degree. . By the end of July, her balance was zero.

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The Guardian

MARCH 25, 2023

Council are paying large sums for elderly care homes that are inadequate, need improving and not safe, finds Guardian research Five of the largest private care chains are taking £150m a year in taxpayers’ money for places in English elderly care homes rated inadequate or requiring improvement, including some that are “not safe”, the Guardian has estimated. (..)

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JUNE 14, 2022

“I was losing money, which I knew would affect me, it did affect me,” they said. decent sick pay. Black and ethnic minority social workers have disproportionately high ASYE failure rate, figures show. Black and ethnic minority social workers disproportionately subject to fitness to practise investigations.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The money is needed to pay for her funeral. Clara Willetts, 95, died on 19 June in the £186-a-day Netherton Green care home in Dudley run by Advinia. The firm failed to return more than £7,000 after her death despite repeated demands and promises to do so. Continue reading.

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