Community Care

APRIL 24, 2025

Opposition amendments to the bill Several amendments were made to the bill despite being opposed by the government. The government minister, Baroness Merron (Labour), argued that due to drafting deficiencies, the effect of the amendment would be to give the police additional detention powers, contrary to its intentions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

They believe the hospital called the Allegheny County family police agency, which immediately took away the child. The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. And they don’t say what led to the risk score in a given case.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

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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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2025

The Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, headed by crossbench peer and renowned government troubleshooter Baroness (Louise) Casey, started its work this week. Earlier this week, Casey met with carers, disabled people, advocates and campaigners to learn about their experience of the current care system.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

People with learning disabilities and autistic people were “not always protected from abuse or poor care” by insufficiently skilled staff, amid a blame culture in a mental health trust’s inpatient services. Police open investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Proposals to overhaul the Mental Health Act 1983 will be considered by Parliament over the next year, the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.” Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care. “We need a complete transformation. .”

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The sector has not been as prominent as it should have been during the campaign and when it has been discussed, it has been characterised as “broken” and in crisis, or with a “narrow” focus on how it should be paid for and how it can help cut hospital waiting lists, they said. “Important questions, of course.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, rather than statutory principles, it recommended a new provision, placed at the beginning of the MHA, requiring the government to draw up the revised MHA code of practice having regard to and including the principles set out in the independent review.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There will be no reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 before the next election, the government has confirmed. The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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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. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

.” Family inspiration Much of her career was spent working with adults with learning disabilities, a reflection of the fact that her career in social care was inspired by her own experience caring for her brother, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Specialist services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people, including supported living, saw a sharp fall in their profit margins from 2021-23, driven by rising staff costs. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

Here at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW England), we are taking action to make sure human rights abuses suffered by people with learning disabilities and autistic people are never forgotten and history does not repeat itself. Home not hospitals’ resources. Named social workers – time to expand their role?

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, staffing problems – in the shape of rising vacancies and falling numbers of filled posts in provider organisations – have been mounting steadily since March 2021, leading the government to plough £462.5m to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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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. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, due to cost constraints, found the annual Pulse Check survey commissioned by learning disability provider Hft and representative body Care England. rise in the salary floor due in April 2024.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2024

Pursglove added: “The time is therefore right to update the code to reflect these changes…” Shelving of LPS The proposed revised code also incorporated guidance on the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), the government’s planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

While the party said it would introduce a fair pay agreement for adult social care workers and indicated it would implement the current government’s adult social care charging reforms, it did not allocate any resources to either, prompting criticism that the policies would trigger cuts elsewhere.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

93% of directors said they backed more government funding for adult social care beyond £500m announced in September to support the workforce and hospital discharges , which is yet to be allocated two months on. Authorities are planning £1.3bn in adult social care savings in 2023-24. ” Two-year delay to care cap.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

Leverage government tools and resources , such as those from ASPR TRACIE and FEMA. Conduct gap analyses against CMS requirements and industry best practices. Use training and education platforms to deliver regular emergency preparedness education for your staff.

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2024

These figures are only the tip of the iceberg; for example, they do not cover the numbers in Wales, ‘community deprivation of liberty’ outside hospitals and care homes and cases involving 16- and 17-year-olds. This means it will be left to the new government to make decisions about whether and when to implement the replacement scheme.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This means it has not bowed to calls from council leaders for a delay, to help them deal with current pressures on services, including severe shortages of care staff, long waiting times for assessments and care and high levels of delayed discharges from hospital.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If this were to be the case, we could make some inroads in maintaining the essential workforce needed so that older and disabled people can continue to access support and live life fully.” . “Care work is highly skilled and all care workers should be paid more than the national living wage.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This was enabled by the government diverting money from reforming the social care charging system to frontline services, and permitting authorities to raise council tax by 5% this year without a referendum, with some of the proceeds ring-fenced for adults’ services.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. “We are pleased to see that the government has listened to councils and has protected this money.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that Gloucestershire council failed to appropriately assess or meet Miss X’s needs or support her partner, Mr L, in caring for her, leading him to burn out and leave. Disabled man left in unsuitable accommodation for 27 months, finds ombudsman.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Physical Needs Assessment : Health Status : Social workers evaluate the individual’s physical health, identifying any chronic illnesses, disabilities, or immediate health concerns that may require attention. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Then, in 2012, she became chair of the mental health faculty at The College of Social Work, the body set up to provide leadership for the profession, which closed in 2015 after the government withdrew funding and it was unable to sustain itself. How integrated is mental health social work across settings?

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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Nicola, whose 24-year-old son has been detained under the Mental Health Act since September 2017 at Cheadle Royal hospital in Cheshire, said his care is “worse than being in prison” and “people wouldn’t treat an animal” as badly. Continue reading.

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