Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care suggested that councils use the funding to purchase more home care packages, to enable people to leave hospital more quickly, and specialist dementia support to prevent admissions, among other things. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

2bn increase in real-terms spending The increase in councils’ social worker contingent formed part of an overall rise in the number of adult social care staff employed, directly or indirectly, by authorities from 113,900 to 117,400, the highest figure since 2015. . Over the same period, the social worker vacancy rate fell from 11.6%

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2024

The same judgment, delivered by Mr Justice Chamberlain, ruled that the Home Office’s use of hotels as a routine source of accommodation for unaccompanied children was also unlawful. of their child population – including Kent – refer young people to be transferred to an authority with a lower proportion of separated children.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the vacancy rate for local authority children’s practitioners has fallen only slightly, while councils are continuing to increase their engagement of agency staff, amid Department for Education (DfE) plans to curb their use. At the same time, the number of leavers fell from a record high of 5,421 in 2021-22 to 5,254 in 2022-23.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Regulation of semi-independent provision Since October 2023 councils have been banned from using independent settings altogether, and from placing young people in semi-independent placements whose providers were not registered under Ofsted’s new supported accommodation regime.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Just over half of people receiving council-arranged long-term care had a review of their support plans in 2021-22, official figures have shown. per cent of people who had been receiving long-term support for more than a year were reviewed in 2021-22 , down from 58.4% However, expenditure on long-term care rose by 6.5%

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Because racism is an emotional thing that we feel, it is difficult for us to evidence it. But the murder of George Floyd helped us to name it. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. If you pour champagne, it’s going to trickle down. “If

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Real-terms pay cut. in August, according to the government’s preferred measure , the deal represents a real-terms pay cut for staff. UNISON members have voted to back councils’ offer of a £1,925 pay rise for local authority social workers this year. in favour of the offer. However, with inflation running at 9.9%

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

However, there was a fall of 4.3% (7,255) in the number of requests resulting in the person receiving long-term care, to 162,590. This contributed to a drop of 2.8% (23,325) in the overall number of people receiving long-term care, to 817,915, the lowest number since 2015-16. rise from 2020-21 to 2021-22, to 1,978,550.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

as of March this year – though councils may also use it to tackle waiting times for care or assessments or to increase provider fees. However, they also warned that it was too little to tackle short-term pressures on services and no substitute for longer-term investment.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ICBs and councils are expected to agree how the funding is used with the DHSC monitoring how it is used, to inform future funding decisions. 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. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

High workloads, stress, real-terms pay cuts, the impact of Covid on workforce wellbeing and public negativity about social work – particularly in the light of the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson cases – have all been blamed for driving people away from the profession. in September 2021. At the same time, 17.6%

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I was writing a post a few weeks ago when I ended up using a term I rarely think about: self-stigma. It’s not that it’s a foreign concept to me, but I don’t think I’m very comfortable using the term or understanding it well when it is used.

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Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I’m less interested in these and more interested in terms that reflect some deeper shifts in the emerging world. The opposite of this concept is known as institutional courage defined as an institution’s commitment to seek the truth and engage in moral action, despite unpleasantness, risk, and short-term cost.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

To avoid that, they are now £1,200 in debt, using a credit card to cover travel costs, as most of their salary goes on childcare, rent and essentials for the children. To avoid that, they are now £1,200 in debt, using a credit card to cover travel costs, as most of their salary goes on childcare, rent and essentials for the children.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-terms funding rise Ministers said the proposed settlement meant authorities would have a potential resource of over £64bn in 2024-25. in cash terms, which the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said amounted to a 4.7% rise in real terms. This is up by almost £4bn on 2023-24, a rise of 6.5% The rise, from £10.42

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Community Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Qualification levels and average real-terms pay have fallen for care workers, official data has shown. Fall in average pay Median average real-terms pay for independent sector care workers fell from £10.62 Of this group, half (51%) had been working in the sector for five years or more. an hour in March 2021 to £10.11

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The extent of the abuse Victoria had suffered shocked the country.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 12, 2022

It reminded just how powerful a healthy day can be on the journey to long-term wellness. I used to think that some people just weren’t capable of having those good days, and I was one of them. I used to think that some people just weren’t capable of having those good days, and I was one of them.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 14, 2022

The common thread is that I’ve never been with one therapist long enough to making any long-term changes – until now. But now that I’m self-aware about these these things, how can I use this information to improve? I’ve been on a bit of a self-awareness kick for a few weeks now. Very Well Mind.

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Mental Health Therapist Communication Psychology 264

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

The purpose of this article is two fold: To share about the world of FSC social work, and what you should be mindful of before you join To help you assess whether this is something for you When people asked me where I worked at, I used to describe the FSC as a GP (general practitioner) for social services.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For many, these have involved moving into unregistered placements – without Ofsted’s regulatory oversight – with severe restrictions placed on their movement and access to technology, constant supervision, often by multiple staff members and significant use of restraint. They have little agency over what happens to them.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The news was welcomed by mental health bodies, in the light of the government’s decision – revealed in last week’s King’s Speech – to drop its manifesto pledge to reform the MHA during the current parliamentary term. Streeting echoed these comments in a debate today on the NHS. ”

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I found using CSWE’s interpretation guide both useful and overwhelming at the same time, and the tips that Melissa shares in this post helped break down the guide for me. First, to actively use the interpretation guide. Second, TO ACTIVELY USE THE INTERPRETATION GUIDE! What is the interpretation guide?

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

Making greater use of virtual assessments. 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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the second year in succession , the increase has been driven almost entirely by increasing numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in the UK, revealed the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual looked-after children’s statistics, issued last week.

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Adoption Government Social Services Social Services 206

My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This recurring feature on the blog will tackle different words and phrases that I use when talking about my mental health. I know that other people use this language as well, and defining some of the more relatable terms can help others understand what it means, instead of having to explain it constantly.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Children’s social care reforms Alongside the research, commissioned by evidence body Foundations in June, the Department for Education has proposed revising the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance to encourage use of FGCs from early help onwards where there is a risk of the child going into care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The news follows Social Work England’s announcement that it will review the £90-a-year fee it levies on social workers during the term of its next three-year strategy, 2023-26. A report by spending watchdog the Accounts Commission earlier this year said that real-terms funding from the Scottish Government to councils had fallen by 4.2%

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

One is that many are exploited in their home country in terms of middlemen asking for very large fees to so-called help them get a place in Britain and that can be £10,000. Bell, professor of economics at King’s College London, made the comments in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s World at One yesterday (31 July).

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

In relation to children’s social work specifically, 48% of authorities said they had used market supplements – generally time-limited payments in addition to basic salary – to attract staff. a year previously, according to Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) research.

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Use of the funding should be guided by the ‘home first’ principle, rather than the default being that people are discharged into care homes. . “Use of the funding should be guided by the ‘home first’ principle, rather than the default being that people are discharged into care homes. Risk of inappropriate placements.

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My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 9, 2021

When I was looking up how to manage and deal with perfectionism, I saw the same results as when I looked up how to manage self-doubt , which was that every article I found used terms like overcoming and get rid of when talking about perfectionism (which seems like an example of perfectionism itself). Set your own standard.

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Mental Health 246

Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The number of approved places in England and Wales’s 14 homes dropped by 7.6%, from 249 to 230 in the year to March 2023, with just 203 of these available for use, down from 220 the year before. Overall occupancy levels were 60% of approved places, down from 72% in 2020.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In her time there, she has been instrumental in minimising long-term detentions of people with learning disabilities under the Mental Health Act 1983. In her time there, she has been instrumental in minimising long-term detentions of people with learning disabilities under the Mental Health Act 1983. Some of it is family.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Pre-proceedings initiated for second time About eight months later, Derbyshire council initiated pre-proceedings again, after Boden was convicted of drug-related offences, reports of cannabis use by the couple, two domestic abuse-related police callouts, concerns about the home environment and instances of the couple avoiding professionals.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“As I said earlier, it’s all about the long term, and the scale of the challenge needs long term plans with long term investment.” “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.

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