Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Case for opening up child in need role In its consultation on the plans, the DfE suggested this would enable staff already working with families – including family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers – to take on the lead practitioner role.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2024

While successive governments have agreed to implement a version of the reforms, they have then either ditched or delayed them. This was so the government could deal with what she said was a significant unexpected overspend on government expenditure left by its predecessor, a view rejected by the Tories.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, rather than statutory principles, it recommended a new provision, placed at the beginning of the MHA, requiring the government to draw up the revised MHA code of practice having regard to and including the principles set out in the independent review.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ” .” ”

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

.” Family inspiration Much of her career was spent working with adults with learning disabilities, a reflection of the fact that her career in social care was inspired by her own experience caring for her brother, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. The Labour manifesto said this would set fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards, for care staff, and would be based on consultation with trade unions and providers.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a social worker, to participate in the MDT. ICBs are responsible for determining eligibility for CHC.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Longstanding concerns amid passion for role These ranged from navigating the emotional labour of supporting struggling students to grappling with institutional racism and advocating for fellow disabled and neurodivergent colleagues because of a lack of support and reasonable adjustments within organisations.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

There was also recognition for the former chief executive of social work charity Frontline, Josh MacAlister, who recently led a government-commissioned review of children’s social care. ‘Believe in yourself’ An MBE was also awarded to social care consultant, and expert by experience, Jak Savage.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

They said that these placements required a specific skillset on carers’ part, as did other specialist placements, such as those for disabled children. DfE fostering plans The report comes in the wake of the Department for Education’s consultative strategy for children’s social care, published last month.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, I reported on cash-strapped Bristol city council’s proposal to move disabled people into residential care if it was deemed “best value” compared with providing support in their own homes. Others used the council’s public consultation to voice their objections. Readers took to social media with their outrage.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There are “significant risks” around the government’s capacity to deliver its already delayed plan to introduce a cap on care costs by October 2025, the public spending watchdog has warned. Government has set out its ambition to meet this challenge and now needs to demonstrate how it is delivering on these plans. “If

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

A serious and complex condition is defined as a condition “serious enough to require specialized medical treatment to avoid the reasonable possibility of death or permanent harm” or a chronic condition that “is life-threatening, degenerative, potentially disabling, or congenital; and requires specialized medical care over a prolonged period of time.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

A draft report and best practice guidance from the supervision review will go out for consultation later in the year. Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities. There is an urgent need for this review.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Physical Needs Assessment : Health Status : Social workers evaluate the individual’s physical health, identifying any chronic illnesses, disabilities, or immediate health concerns that may require attention. Basic Needs : Assessment includes evaluating access to necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, and transportation.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that Gloucestershire council failed to appropriately assess or meet Miss X’s needs or support her partner, Mr L, in caring for her, leading him to burn out and leave. Disabled man left in unsuitable accommodation for 27 months, finds ombudsman. Related articles.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Care Workforce Pathway and Care Certificate will help new and existing care colleagues chart a bright and rewarding future [Image created by freepik.com ] A positive direction for social care I’m pleased we've begun 2024 with the Government's announcement of this workforce reform package.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].

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Community Care

MAY 14, 2023

In P, R (On the Application of) v London Borough of Croydon , P had a range of disabilities, and, in March 2020, aged 25, returned from a specialist college to live with her parents.

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SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

Hard-pressed GPs will be able to refer patients to someone else and free up their consulting room at a time when we face a GP shortage. The activities they proposed were completely inaccessible to me as a disabled person. I was not able to take this up because my disability means it is completely inaccessible.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

This outcome further disables the child come adulthood and also financially burdens society. We need a government in power who understands that the investment in meeting the needs of all children is not only an investment in the child, but all of society. That will not be a conservative government. It is so short-sighted.

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Social Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social care colleagues will have better training, clearer career paths and improved job prospects following the announcement of government plans to develop the domestic care workforce. I was invited to join the Department of Health and Social Care’s Expert Consultation Group for the Pathway.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Social Work England has proposed increasing its fees by a third this year, in a consultation launched today. Social Work England’s justification for its proposals is to rebalance the income it receives from social workers and from its sponsoring government department, the Department for Education (DfE).

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2025

” However, in response, the prime minister merely said the government would “set out the details just as soon as we can”, an answer that has been given repeatedly by children’s minister Janet Daby in response to multiple parliamentary questions.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

It is important to remember that the government does not have a majority in the Lords and could be defeated on particular votes. Learning disability and autism exclusion A topic that dominated debates in the Lords was the position of people with learning disability and autistic people.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

While the party said it would introduce a fair pay agreement for adult social care workers and indicated it would implement the current government’s adult social care charging reforms, it did not allocate any resources to either, prompting criticism that the policies would trigger cuts elsewhere.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The “door could be open to the abuse and neglect” of disabled children due to the government’s cost-driven decision to shelve a planned expansion of advocacy for the group.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The bill is largely the same as the draft Mental Health Bill published by the previous government, itself largely based on the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act in 2018. Including the wording of the principles identified by the independent review within the MHA’s requirements for a code of practice.

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