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Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the measures today, alongside news that councils would receive at least an extra £600m in grant funding for social care in 2025-26. This was part of a wider grant package worth £1.3bn which, along with other revenue increases, would give local government a real-terms rise in resource of about 3.2%
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
These were equity in experience and outcomes; partnerships and communities; safe pathways, systems and transitions; governance, management and sustainability, and leadership, improvement and innovation. ‘Proactive’ monitoring of service quality The London borough proactively monitored the quality of commissioned services.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of the Better Care Fund (BCF), under which they are required to pool resources to tackle government priorities. in 2025-26.
The minimum price commissioners should pay homecare providers will rise by 11.8% “Care work is highly skilled and all care workers should be paid more than the national living wage. next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs.
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.
The number of registered carehome beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and homecare 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.” .
The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for carehome services for older people and homecare provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can read more about the findings in our article.
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.
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 homecare sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.
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.
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.
This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the homecare 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.
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.”
” 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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