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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Along with additional grant funding worth £1bn in 2023-24 and £1.7bn in 2024-25 for adult social care, the autumn statement also enables councils to increase by 2% per year – up from 1% – the council tax precept that provides dedicated funding for the sector.

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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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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

“When money is made available it simply isn’t cutting through. ” Breakdown of extra government cash Not all of the £8.1bn, allocated for 2023-25, will be spent on adult social care, with some destined for children’s services and another chunk dependent on council tax increases. .”

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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% ” He also pointed out that the funding allocated was dependent on authorities raising council tax by 3% per year.

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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

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. While councils’ spending power is due to rise by 1.8%

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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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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

The March 2020 passage of the American Rescue Plan expanded the child tax credit and created other financial cushions, sending money directly to the most vulnerable families for the first time. Curran co-authored a Center study on children left behind by the child tax credit in 2022. child poverty rate in 2021 of 5.2 percent.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

percentage point rise in national insurance contributions and dividend taxes that came into force in April. The government scrapped the tax increases last week in its so-called mini-budget, but confirmed that the estimated £13bn a year they were due to raise per year would still be allocated to health and social care as planned. .”

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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

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. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Children’s services would also potentially benefit from the government allowing local authorities to raise council tax by 3% over the next two years without putting the rise to a local referendum, up from a previous 2% limit. This social care grant is worth £1.3bn in 2022-23 and £1.9bn in 2023-24.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Analysis: more money is needed and UK government should admit to the public how bad things have got Has Boris Johnson delivered his 2019 promise to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all” with Wednesday’s white paper? He announced a new tax to raise £5.4bn for social care over the next three years.

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

RCCs are designed to overcome the challenge of individual councils being too small – and having too few children – to be able to meaningfully shape the services providers offer and ensure that they meet need and are value for money. and Wolverhampton’s 17.6%.

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

While the three courses have differences, they are of similar lengths (around 14 months), involve similar levels of financial support for students (tax-free bursaries of between £17,000 and £20,000 with no tuition fees) and involve the trainee being placed in a host local authority or – in Think Ahead’s case – an NHS mental health trust.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

And - yet again - a study shows that cash assistance for poor people - in this case the federal Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit - almost immediately reduces what family policing agencies call child abuse and neglect. ? In Florida, is it a case of “here comes the new ‘lead agency’ just like the old ‘lead agency’”?

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The Guardian

AUGUST 9, 2022

Liz Truss stumbled badly by telling the Financial Times she would only help them “in a Conservative way” with tax cuts not “handouts”, her gofers explaining she is “enabling people to keep more of the money that they earn”.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils have questioned these figures since some of the money is designed to be spent on children’s social care and another chunk is dependent on authorities raising the maximum permissible amount from council tax in each year, though a County Councils Network analysis published last month found most were planning to do so.

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The Guardian

MARCH 9, 2022

We now seem to be reversing many of the strides that have been made, taking money from young people looked after by the state to assist in cutting taxes for the more fortunate. From the passing of the Children Act in 1989 until the early 2000s, there was some progress.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit: Less “neglect.” But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect!

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 3, 2023

In 2016, after scanning his tax records, he determined that he’d lost between $55 million and $75 million on gambling — over twice as much as his original estimation. Floyd Mayweather Floyd “Money” Mayweather is known for his spending habits, whether it’s on expensive cars or high fashion. Jaromir Jagr 12. Michael Vick 13.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But there was nothing wrong in that family that, say, an annual income of $84,000 a year, tax free, couldn’t fix. The school gets all the profits from all those chocolate bars – and that’s an incredible amount of money. They have a bottomless pit of money that they can use any way they please.

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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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Beautiful Voyager

JULY 11, 2021

4) The top reasons for preferring to continue to work from home are convenience, saving money and increased productivity. (5) Many surveys11,12,13 reported that between half to three quarters of workers said they paid the “COVID tax” meaning they did more hours (including nights and weekends for some) than pre-pandemic.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor denies postponing financial pain as fiscal watchdog’s figures show eight years of income growth wiped out In the Commons Rishi Sunak is making a statement about the G20 summit. These statements are normally routine, and just summarise what was said or decided at the meeting. They don’t normally include fresh announcements.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is dependent on authorities raising council tax by 3% per year (1% of which would be ring-fenced for adult social care) and takes into account funding to expand the scope of adults’ services under the government’s social care reforms. ” Minister: too many agency staff.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

At the start of a case: Take poor people’s money to investigate poor people. Instead, in a process that is legal, but morally is theft, a process we first flagged more than a decade ago , many states take the money and use it as a child welfare slush fund, to fund family police investigations and foster care. that’s not what happens.

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The Guardian

JUNE 25, 2022

Setting up a company, taking charge of a payroll, sorting out holidays and tax and national insurance for other people. Setting up a company to help look after my mother seemed like a good idea but ended in a headache It was my worst nightmare. Becoming an employer. But that’s what it had come to.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Average council tax bills could rise by as much as £100, to more than £2,000 for households in band D, from April, after the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, confirmed in the autumn statement that the cap on how much local authorities could raise rates would be relaxed.

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The Guardian

APRIL 6, 2022

In last month’s spring statement, the chancellor raised the threshold at which national insurance is paid from £9,800 to £12,570 – cancelling the tax hike for around 70% of workers. On Wednesday, that extra deduction from pay packets took effect , albeit with an important adjustment.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

It would also save money over the longer term. Though the review did not back caps on profits or prices, investment in the care system should be pump-primed by a windfall tax on the 15 largest private residential care and independent fostering providers. “This is a simple idea that has proved notoriously difficult to realise.”

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Employee NICs are no different to income tax. We know this because HMRC’s annual tax summaries, sent to every taxpayer, combine income tax and NICs in calculating how our taxes have contributed to government spending.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

No Amount of Money is going to end this dysfunctional, circular pattern. Another of his columns in the PACEs site condemns opposition to the expanded child tax credit. If the PACES Connection community pushed to use that money for basic cash assistance it would do far more to curb neglect than anything in Dr. Gordon’s pharmacy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

When things like this happen, states are not required to give any of that money back. Nessel alleged the couples' collected more than $1 million tax free through the adoption subsidy program. The DeWitt couples are being charged in relation to eight of the 30 children who have been in their charge since 2007.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

13 How will you pay your council tax? 17 Who is responsible for repairs and maintenance? Reference must be made to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Sections 1–4 1 Who manages the money in your household? 3 Do you have any difficulties in taking your money out of the bank? 5 Do you need any help with your money?

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Rouse stayed on point, justifying the administration’s positions on spending and tax increases while leaving the door ajar for reasonable compromise although Republicans appear somewhat disingenuous with their counter proposals. Biden wants to restore part of that tax cut to 28 percent. John Maynard Keynes may be back.

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