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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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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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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Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. 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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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?

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

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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