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Community Care
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Seeking further savings from social care after a decade of austerity is “fanciful and deeply worrying”, sector leaders have warned after chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced government departments would need to deliver more efficiencies. Jeremy Hunt.
Community Care
OCTOBER 28, 2022
However, the Times reported earlier this month that ministers were considering a one-year delay to the changes as part of moves to shore up the public finances, which will be set out in next month’s autumn statement. The funding reforms are due to cost £771m in 2023-24. of their budgets) in 2023-24.
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Community Care
OCTOBER 20, 2023
An effective pay freeze for social workers and other health and social care staff in Northern Ireland is “unsustainable and unfair”, sector leaders have warned. “This sends out entirely the wrong signal on how health and social care staff are valued by society.
Community Care
APRIL 28, 2023
“As a society we have asked a huge amount of carers, and during the pandemic we asked more again,” she said. While the government has hailed record funding for adult social care from 2023-25, it has, at the same time, cut – at least for the time being – that available for reforming services and investing in the sector.
Community Care
MAY 31, 2022
That was the verdict of sector bodies representing councils, private providers and children and young people in relation to last week’s final report from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. At a time when budgets are stretched, this cost increase will cause cuts across other services and impact on society as a whole.”
The Guardian
JANUARY 14, 2024
The model of outsourcing public services is broken. Charities, councils and ministers need to find new ways of collaborating Cheap, efficient and entrepreneurial: these were the characteristics that politicians hoped the voluntary and private sectors would bring to the provision of public services.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
In response, it proposed a number of measures, designed to encourage social workers to stay in their roles and organisations, rather than turn to agency work or away from the sector altogether. However, despite it being the largest rise for council staff in over a decade, it represented a real-terms cut, with inflation measuring 10.1%
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