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Community Care
DECEMBER 19, 2024
An extra 200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. Were all authorities to do so, this would yield about 970m, some of which would be available for adult social care. this year to 32.14
Community Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Social work assistants would be regulated in Scotland under plans issued for consultation. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. And then what? And what, exactly, does that mean? But the deck is stacked.
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.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. A southern unitary authority calculated there was a gap £100-135 per week gap for residential care, a £0.59
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. However, the Homecare Association said its findings showed that the CQC was not inspecting enough services to ensure the quality and safety of social care.
Community Care
OCTOBER 23, 2023
” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones. These scores will inform the single-word rating.
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