Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many thousands of care workers in England will get a 10% pay rise next April after the government decided to increase its national living wage (NLW) from £10.42 between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. an hour in England in 2023-24.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can read more about the findings in our article.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021. “The sector alone cannot solve those problems.” .

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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. This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care and residential care sectors were running vacancy rates of 18% in addition to 14% absence rates last week. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

However, the King’s Fund pointed out that much of the increase from 2019-20 to 2021-22 had been in Covid-related funding, designed to help providers meet additional costs, rather than directly finance care for individuals. The government has an opportunity to move from words to action in its reform plan, promised for the spring.”

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services urged the government to “move at pace” in tackling the issue, while the British Association of Social Workers England said the figures were “not a surprise” as practitioners’ working conditions had been “deteriorating year after year”.

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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. She feels fortunate to have a good home care provider and explains how identifying the right values and behaviours are crucial.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. The government must now acknowledge the scale of the crisis and step in with emergency funding and measures to ensure we can get through the winter ahead.”. Mounting unmet need.

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