Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

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 DFG must be spent in accordance with an agreed BCF plan, the DHSC said.

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Social Worker Hospitals Rehabilitation Disability 37

Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. There were shortages of nursing home beds for those with complex needs, and increased demand for home care, amid workforce shortages.

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Nursing Home Social Worker Therapist Government 59

Social Care

AUGUST 20, 2024

As you’d expect, eligibility for vaccination includes “those in long-stay residential care homes, carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person and the close contacts of immunocompromised individuals.”

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