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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Newly qualified social worker Clare previously borrowed money from her parents to afford travelling for work, but was now in debt, using a credit card to cover her travel costs, providing for her three children and childcare. I get into the end of the second week after being paid and I don’t have any money.

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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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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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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Yet almost as disconcerting were the several opportunities missed to save Victoria by the numerous services she had been in contact with prior her death, including social services, hospitals and the police. ‘A Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria.

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The mother of three, the main earner in their family, with their partner earning half as much as them, previously had to borrow money from their parents to travel for work. And the saving has not stopped the family being in debt, because of rising costs elsewhere. “It’s ” “And we’re not silly with money, right?

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

“To make the same level of savings we would have to raise the cap, reduce means-testing support or expect people to make contributions towards their daily living costs that are unaffordable from most people’s income,” he said. “None of these are desirable options.”

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Community Care

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 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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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 14, 2022

Controversial value-for-money claims. The report also made tentative claims – based on findings from the first five pilot authorities – that implementing NAAS had saved between £2.03-£2.28 for every £1 invested in implementation, through reduced use of agency staff and numbers of children on child protection plans and in care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

He will provide further detail in a statement to Parliament this afternoon, but the Treasury has confirmed that retaining the rules, along with similar ones for the private sector introduced last year, would save £2bn a year compared with the plan to scrap them.

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Save the Social Worker

JULY 12, 2023

Think about the money first If you are switching into social work from the corporate sector, you might have grown burnt and tired out of chasing money. Often people ignore this as a ‘pay-back’ for the money they did earn in their previous jobs. We tend to underestimate just how much money means to us, even in a meaningful job.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

“We need to act now to save social care. This was for a system that was focused on improving wellbeing, personalised to need, preventive, integrated, community-based, value for money, fair and accessible. However, the report stressed that the sector had many strengths, including providing jobs for 1.5m

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The IFG said that the government’s failure to uprate the savings thresholds for accessing council-funded care since 2010 , reducing their value by 25%, had made it harder for people to access care. Over the same period, the number of annual requests for support rose by 10.6%, to just over two million in 2022-23.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In addition, those with less than £20,000 in assets would not have to contribute to their care from their savings, up from £14,250 now, though this change broadly accounts for the impact of inflation given the freeze in the capital thresholds since 2010. It finds savings exclusively from the less well off group.”

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The current position we are in, with many agencies refusing to supply a single social worker to local authorities and instead offering a whole project team is unacceptable and costs local authorities significantly more money when budgets are already stretched.”

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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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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 5, 2022

Associate Professor Terri Friedline and Professor William Elliott spoke with the Guardian about the benefits of children’s savings accounts, which extend beyond saving money for college. It’s not because they’re getting money in their hands, it’s more about understanding their kids have a better future,” said Elliott.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This has led to fears that the situation for social care could worsen if the government seeks to make savings from local authorities and does not go ahead with new investments as proposed by the care review.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Getting looked-after children into university will save money, break intergenerational cycles and improve lives This month, about half a million 18-year-olds around the UK will be packing their bags ready to start university.

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Save the Social Worker

APRIL 28, 2024

Like money. Ever wondered how to ask for more money as a social worker? We also included great exercises for social workers to work through, about taboo topics that we often don’t talk about (but think a lot about). Well, here’s how. It’s pretty, isn’t it? I think so too.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

People will be eligible for free personal care once they have spent £86,000 of their own money on the costs of meeting their assessed eligible needs, excluding daily living costs in a care home. Money spent by their council on meeting their needs would not count, under the proposed amendment to the Care Act. Funding reforms in brief.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday, ADASS warned that 94% of directors did not believe they had enough money or workforce to meet needs this winter, according to its latest survey. On the same day, the Care Provider Alliance , a collective of provider umbrella bodies, said the sector was in an “increasingly fragile position” due to a 10.7%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He argued that his proposed level of investment – most of which, £2bn over five years, would go on family help – would save the taxpayer money in the long-term, notably by reducing by an estimated 30,000 (30%) the likely size of the care population by 2032.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Gloucestershire has “significantly” increased its funding for children’s services by more than £40m since Spencer arrived, and he says money is not holding the department back from improving. Not only is it saving money, it is providing good outcomes. Funding increase. And we’ve got another two of those in the pipeline.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Government plans to more closely integrate health and social care will not succeed in their aims to improve care quality, personalisation and value for money without adequate funding and staffing, sector bodies have warned.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The reforms encompass the £86,000 cap on people’s personal care costs, as measured by what their local authority would spend on meeting eligible needs, and an increase, from £23,250 to £100,000, in the savings limit below which people can get state funding for care.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

” The review labelled IFAs as “expensive” and, in its report, the CMA argued there was scope for councils to save money by delivering more fostering provision in house amid “indicative evidence” agencies were more expensive. We are not clear how another layer of regional commissioning will address this.”

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Warren added: “I encourage members of parliament to consider whether they want to back a policy that will save the Treasury money, but at the direct expense of poorer people living in the North and Midlands who need social care.” ” Related articles. Bid to bring forward reforms.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MacAlister has suggested that this could be achieved by investing in early intervention to reduce spending on late intervention, and in children’s social care generally to save money in other areas of government, such as on unemployment, health and housing. ” Minister: too many agency staff.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Elliott’s talk, "We Also Have to Give Children Something to Live For: Children's Savings, Student Debt, and Wealth Inequality,” argued that the drive Americans have demonstrated throughout their history comes not just from having enough money to pay their bills each week or enough to live on, but from the promise of a better future and that Children’s (..)

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Below this level of savings, people will be eligible for support for their care costs, whether in a care home or their own home. 900m saving. In a paper published last week , the DHSC estimated the reforms would cost the state an additional £3.7bn a year by 2027-28, including money allocated to the devolved nations.

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