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Social work assistants in Scotland to be regulated under SSSC proposal

Community Care

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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Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

Community Care

in 2025-26, significantly as a result of the rises in employer NICs and the NLW, though the association has also increased its minimum profit margin from 5% to 7%, based on evidence from care market analysts LaingBuisson around current profit levels. The MHCLG has launched a consultation on this reform. This will rise from 28.53

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Learn more about our leadership , direct services , consulting and training , and more!

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60% of community social care services have no or ‘outdated’ performance rating, analysis finds

Community Care

Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. It said authorities were spreading the home care hours they commissioned among multiple providers, with some contracting with about 200 organisations.

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Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

Community Care

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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?

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Law to bolster child protection announced in Labour’s first King’s Speech

Community Care

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.