Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” Worsening workforce situation.

Case Management 69

Case Management Consultation Social Worker Government 69

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.

Case Management 54

Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 54

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. The department said improvements in case management systems (CMS) were needed to enable more direct work and reduce workload pressures on practitioners.

Social Worker 58

Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 58

Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Social workers could more than double the time they spend with children and families through more efficient case management systems and fewer meetings. By contrast, they spent half of their time on case recording, administration or other IT tasks, and significant time in meetings. Half of social worker time spent on admin.

Social Worker 61

Social Worker Administration Government Case Management 61

Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Though the council had implemented a “robust contract management cycle” since taking ownership of the trust in 2019, the report said current governance arrangements limited the authority’s ability to challenge poor performance. Unmet need. No redundancies.

Case Management 61

Case Management Government Interventional Consultation 61

Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. In its 2021 white paper, People at the Heart of Care, the government concluded that the full spirit of the Care Act had not been realised.

Hospital Discharges 56

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Case Management 56

Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. “This increase in productivity could enable authorities to manage a proportion of the additional demand being forecast.”

Government 60

Government Social Worker Case Management Consultation 60