Community Care

MARCH 18, 2024

A ‘massive reduction’ in the care population, with many more children cared for at home or with extended family, will be the key measure of success for the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) social care reforms.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Adult social care has its fourth cabinet minister in two years following Rishi Sunak’s major government reshuffle. Victoria Atkins has replaced Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary, after the latter spent one year in post in his second stint in the job.

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Consultation Government 268

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. As of September 2023, just over 18,000 people were receiving fast-track CHC though the figures exclude data from one integrated care board (ICB).

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Children’s social care has its fifth minister in two years, following today’s cabinet reshuffle. As part of this, his in-tray includes: Introducing controversial reforms to regulate agency social work in statutory children’s services.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. The funding will top-up the existing social care grant, which authorities can spend on either children’s or adults’ services. cash rise worth 4.7% in real terms.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Inequalities in access to adult social care are deepening due to the cost of living crisis, staff shortages and squeezed council budgets. That was the message today from the Care Quality Commission in its annual State of health care and adult social care report.

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Community Care

APRIL 18, 2023

Crocker’s year at the helm was dominated by proposals to overhaul children’s social care – from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson – and the government’s response to them.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Pre-court meetings between children’s social workers and Cafcass guardians have the potential to improve the care proceedings process, a pilot study has concluded. Get up to speed with the PLO Community Care Inform Children is hosting a webinar to help you get up to speed with the relaunched PLO. Book your place now.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. Authorities must continue to meet their statutory duties, meaning social care spending is largely protected. rise in real terms. and £10.41

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

As the Department of Health and Social Care announces its adult social care workforce reform package , Oonagh Smyth, CEO of Skills for Care , gives her insight into what this means for recruiting, retaining and empowering the care workforce.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. DfE social care strategy: key points Funding: £200m in funding over two years.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Next year’s 10% hike in the national living wage (NLW) will trigger adult social care cuts without increased government funding for councils, a survey has found. an hour, announced in the autumn statement, will benefit many adult social care staff in independent providers commissioned by local authorities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rising children’s services demand and care placement costs are deepening English councils’ financial problems, a study issued this week has found. The CCN said this was driven by rising demand in the wake of the pandemic and rising placement costs for children in care.

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Government 218

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated most councils as good in pilot assessments for its new system of appraising the quality of local authority adults’ social care. People using care and support praised the quality of their relationships with social workers and said they felt involved in their assessments.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 218

Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

A scheme placing social workers in schools does not reduce children’s need for statutory social care services, one of the largest ever randomised controlled trials carried out in the sector has found. No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned. Written submissions from organisations and experts.

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Advocacy Interviewing Government Disability 254

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Incoming prime minister Liz Truss has appointed new cabinet ministers to take responsibility for social care, as the sector battles the cost of living crisis and widespread staffing shortages, while facing substantial policy change. Adult social care funding reforms.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Healthcare 238

Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.

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Community Care

JULY 6, 2023

The government is no longer funding a scheme to promote racial equality in local authorities’ social care workforces. The SC-WRES work is now being taken on by workforce development body Skills for Care, which the DHSC had previously funded to deliver the scheme but is now resourcing the project from its own coffers.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

be funding for hundreds of apprenticeships and digital training places so that new and existing care colleagues can keep pace with the latest digital innovations." A new, accredited qualification, the Care Certificate , is also being introduced to further recognise and validate the work done by 37,000 colleagues. "There will.

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Counseling Social Worker 126

Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At Community Care Live, a panel of experts discussed the role of learning and development in attracting and retaining early-career social workers. As part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we asked each of them for the best piece of advice they would give to new social workers. What do they say? Put your mask on first.

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Social Worker 264

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. ADASS urges £1,000 winter bonus for care staff in England to stem workforce pressures. Mandatory vaccination enforced in care homes amid mounting staff gaps and job loss warnings.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The lack of adult social workers is the sector’s biggest concern as it prepares to deliver the cap on care costs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has found. Risk to Care Act duties. Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms. over that period.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Adults’ services in England will need more social workers over the next two years to implement the government’s social care reforms, the chief social worker has said. This compares with a headcount of 33,966 social workers employed by councils or children’s trusts as of September 2020.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The government has appointed its fourth children’s social care minister of the year ahead of a critical period for the sector. New minister’s praise for social workers. Congrats to all of tonight’s winners in advance & a big thank you to all the amazing social workers across the country #SWA22.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Children’s social care has been handed its fifth secretary of state of 2022, while the minister with direct responsibility for the sector has quit after a month, despite it facing one of its biggest policy shake-ups in many years. Social care reform proposals. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia.

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Government Schools Social Worker 309

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

No minister has been appointed for adult social care, six weeks into Liz Truss’s premiership. Despite a full ministerial team being appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care on 7 September, the DHSC said their responsibilities had not yet been decided upon.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. Response to care review. Robert Goodwill, in 2017-18, was the last DfE minister of state with responsibility for social care. Praise for Frontline.

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Schools Child Welfare Adoption Social Worker 254

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 305

Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The government is not expecting a significant rise in social care referrals from introducing a duty on professionals to report child sexual abuse. Professionally regulated staff, such as social workers, would also be subject to sanctions from their regulator body.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. Delay to cap on care costs being considered. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. of their budgets) in 2023-24.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. While this has multiple causes, including pressures on carers and a lack of primary and community NHS capacity, shortages of social care services and staff are significant factors.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Recovery Government 238

Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

The staff vacancy rate across adult social care services in England hit 10% last month, show figures released today. of posts were vacant, according to Skills for Care’s adult social care workforce data set. Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8%

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Nursing Home Government Home Care Therapist 243

Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. 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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