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£600m for social care ‘risks being swallowed by wage and employer tax rises’, warn sector leaders

Community Care

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%

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

Community Care

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

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First council rated outstanding since return of CQC adult social care assessments

Community Care

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.

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Social workers could join neighbourhood teams for people with complex needs

Community Care

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.

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Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body

Community Care

The minimum price commissioners should pay home care 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.

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10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

Community Care

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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Social care inequalities deepening due to cost of living crisis and squeezed council budgets, says CQC

Community Care

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.” .