Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The DHSC announced the funding yesterday, alongside its plan to develop a career pathway for adult social care staff, backed by £53.9m

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Government plans to prevent overseas care staff from bringing family members with them to the UK risks worsening the sector’s already significant staff shortages. James Cleverly He also said the government suspected that there was “significant surplus demand” from overseas staff to work in the UK care sector. .”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This will place a premium on early help staff developing effective relationships with children, families and their wider network and having the skills to work with families in complex situations.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. Proposed agency staff rules All procurement of agency staff should follow national rules.

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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.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. Immigration figures This resulted in a rise from 113 to 40,416 in the number of these staff issued with health and care visas from 2021-22 to 2022-23.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Over 40% of social work staff in the UK have faced abuse from service users, their families or members of the public this year, research has found. The findings on staff shortages reflect rising vacancy levels and turnover across children’s and adults’ services in England. ” Rising vacancies and turnover.

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. Such a policy is in place in Scotland and Wales , where care staff in state-funded roles receive a minimum rate of £10.90

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. We are concerned that the use of non-qualified staff will undermine a system that puts the needs of people first.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2023

Less than one in five adult social care staff have been vaccinated against flu or received their autumn booster jab for Covid-19, according to government figures. of staff in older adult care homes had received an autumn booster for Covid and 13.8% of staff in younger adult care homes had received a Covid booster and 11.8%

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Home Care Government 243

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Social Work England has left a Stonewall scheme designed to increase inclusion for LGBTQ+ staff in favour of an alternative training programme. This described diversity champions as a programme that “ensures workplaces accept LGBTQ+ staff without exception”. Stonewall scheme aims.

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Community Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

Cafcass has imposed its 2.51% salary offer on staff without agreement, unions have said. Related articles Cafcass staff overwhelmingly reject 2.5% pay offer but government says no scope for improved deal Cafcass staff quizzed on readiness to take industrial action as union heads reject 2.5%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. ‘Repair work’ needed to help staff. ‘Chaotic and stressful’ working environments. ” Senior management departures.

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Interventional Consultation Social Worker Government 223

Community Care

MAY 15, 2023

The ratio between the numbers of staff and the people they support is not safe in UK social work services, say two-thirds of practitioners. “We have to have a situation where caseloads are safe in order to draw people into the service and retain the staff that you have,” he said. Among social workers, 64.7%

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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. per hour per social care employee. percentage points from September 2021 to March 2022 – but this was reducing profitability. Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 243

Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

That was the warning from the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW), in response to comments made last month that experienced staff were not applying for social work vacancies in the country. It will increase pressure on all team members and the line manager, who needs to support their staff and quality assure the work of the team.”

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Social Worker Government Social Services Social Services 281

Community Care

JUNE 24, 2022

retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation as recorded on 1 April 2022 – was made jointly this month by Napo, the main union for staff at the organisation, and UNISON. Cafcass staff have received a lower pay rise than local government employers in five of the past six years, its January board meeting heard.

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Social Worker Government 265

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Directors have urged the government to fund a £1,000 winter bonus for adult social care staff in England to stem a mounting workforce crisis. The government’s own estimates showing just short of 40,000 jobs being lost in the care home sector from its introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Cafcass staff are being quizzed on their readiness to take industrial action after union leaders rejected a 2.51% pay offer for 2022-23. We are doing all we can within the government pay rules to support staff financially in these difficult times.

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Government Consultation Social Worker 240

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Cafcass staff may be balloted on industrial action if the ongoing absence of a pay offer for 2022-23 persists or they are presented with too low an increase, a union chief has warned. Ian Lawrence, general secretary at Napo, said staff were growing increasingly frustrated by the absence of an offer since it and UNISON issued a claim for a 10.8%

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Social Worker Government Communication 219

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a recent visit focused on the council’s front door, inspectors praised its recruitment of 77 social workers since March 2021, cutting its number of vacancies and use of agency staff by over 50%. Social workers analyse risks and needs for children effectively and, in most cases, apply the right level of threshold,” it said.

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Social Worker Interviewing Disability Interventional 229

Nicole Clark Consulting

MARCH 7, 2023

Now, drawing on the voices of staff (as well as my personal experiences being on staff) I see the need for more balanced considerations in what participants experience in the program and what staff experience when implementing [.] The post Why Staff Are Struggling with Your Programs appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Consultation 78

Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“Things have never been so bad,” for people needing care, carers and staff, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned. ‘Staggering’ level of unmet need. million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Home Care 237

Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

All procurement of agency staff should follow national rules. National price caps on what local authorities may pay per hour for locums, based on the average earned by equivalent permanent staff, on a like-for-like basis. What are the proposed rules on agency work?

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Social Worker Engagement 179

Relias

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This collective trauma has led many to ask, “How can you support staff after a crisis?” Here, we’ll examine steps that organizations can take to support their staff both during and after a crisis. These strategies can help you create a workplace where staff feel safer — both physically and psychologically.

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Empathy Communication Self-harm Psychology 97

Nicole Clark Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2022

You know your community better than your funder, and your programs are only successful when staff feel supported and have the capacity to do their jobs. Your staff knows your programs so much in fact, that when you report to your board of directors or engage new funders, you rely heavily on them to provide [.].

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Consultation Engagement 86

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Staff who come into the programme with post-traumatic stress or depression, or often both of those difficulties, are recovering with six weeks of our wellbeing coaching.” Now they are working with over 3,000 frontline healthcare workers across England and have been invited to work with 8000 London Ambulance employees and staff. “

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PTSD Healthcare Recovery Depression 97

Social Care

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"Although we are here to care for our residents, staff are equally important.". Staff recruitment and retention remain long-standing challenges for the care sector, with the coronavirus pandemic adding to the difficulties many providers face. Although we are here to care for our residents, staff are equally important.

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Disability Hospitals Mental Health Engagement 95

The Guardian

APRIL 23, 2023

Inspectors find lack of trained staff at Reigate Grange and medicines not being administered properly Half of UK public fear family would not be well looked after in care homes A £2,400-a-week care home where staff were secretly filmed abusing 88-year-old Ann King is still breaking Care Act regulations despite a public outcry over her treatment.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ONS analysis shows sector accounting for more than one in 10 of job ads posted online in December Shortages of healthcare workers are fuelling near-record numbers of job vacancies across the UK economy, with the lack of nurses, carers and other staff serving as the biggest recruitment challenge in almost every local authority area.

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Healthcare 72

Relias

MAY 4, 2023

The healthcare industry faces an intense challenge when it comes to staff retention. Staff turnover is costly and impacts the care you provide. The average cost of turnover for a staff RN is $52,350, according to the 2023 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report , published by the NSI Nursing Solutions, Inc.,

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Healthcare Interviewing Engagement 52

The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Exclusive: Firms call on future PM to introduce £15-per-hour minimum wage for frontline workers Care home bosses are demanding the next government funds a 44% pay rise for frontline staff to stabilise the crisis-hit sector and boost a system that is “in an extremely precarious state”.

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Government 82

Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

The government has set out some of the details of its new fund for subsidising training for adult social care staff. Adult social care providers who directly employ care staff, including councils, will be able to claim up to £4.5m Tackling low levels of qualification in sector The DHSC is providing £53.9m

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Therapist Disability Government Social Worker 214

Nicole Clark Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2022

The post Try This: Assess Staff & Board Buy-In appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting. Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement, where I shared, “If [the question] “What’s in it for me?” sounds self-serving, it’s because it is. In order to increase engagement, communities and the people driving the actions [.].

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Most cases not caused by decision to discharge patients from hospital without testing, says former health secretary Care workers have hit back at claims by the former health secretary Matt Hancock that the Covid virus was brought into homes by infected staff.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The UK’s network of independent, mainly voluntary-run palliative care providers said hospices were experiencing a perfect storm of soaring costs and rising demand just as revenues from traditional public fundraising methods are collapsing.

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Hospice 88

The Guardian

JANUARY 20, 2022

Barchester, one of the UK’s largest care home operators, said it would defy any attempt to weaken self-isolation rules for staff. Continue reading.

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