Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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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 While being critical of commissioners, the association said the root cause of the issues was inadequate government funding.

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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.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2024

Scrapping the cap on care costs is “another example of social care being tossed aside”, according to the architect of the reforms. While successive governments have agreed to implement a version of the reforms, they have then either ditched or delayed them.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ”

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The government will delay the introduction of the cap on care costs for two years, in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement next week, The Times has reported. The measure is designed to contribute to government plans to make expected reductions of over £30bn a year in spending to shore up the public finances.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Lack of accessible information and advice Despite the Care Act 2014 and Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 requiring councils to provide people with accessible information and advice on social care in their areas, the EHRC found this was not always the case in relation to challenging decisions.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. This will be the basis of the case it will be making to government for how it invests in, and reforms, the system over the coming years.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Councils are rationing adult social care through “subjective” eligibility judgments, a think-tank has concluded. The IFG said that the government’s failure to uprate the savings thresholds for accessing council-funded care since 2010 , reducing their value by 25%, had made it harder for people to access care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned. 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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And just for my own wellbeing, I feel that Im on top of my caseload, which you dont hear social workers say that a lot. Beneficial for neurodivergent and disabled social workers A social worker with ADHD, dyslexia and arthritis also found that talking to the app significantly improved their workflow.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. in real terms.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments of local authority adult social services are still due to start in a matter of weeks despite the process for doing so not having been agreed. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed that the adults’ assessments were still on course to commence at the start of April.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Waits for assessments and care, commissioned home care left undelivered and provider failure are all increasing, despite more care being provided found an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey of members , covering August to October this year. ‘Emergency funding’ needed. This is due next April.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

More people face paying for their care after means-testing thresholds were frozen for a 13th consecutive year, the government announced this week. Reform delay The capital limits had been due to rise to £20,000 and £100,000, respectively, in October of this year, under the government’s proposed adult social care charging reforms.

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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. Up to £550m from increasing the adult social care precept – the part of council tax that must be spent on adults’ services – by a maximum of 2% (up from a 1% limit in 2022-23). .

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” 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.

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Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2024

People face a “massive postcode lottery” in access to adult social care according to official data, charities for older and disabled people and carers have warned. 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 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. Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time, 94% of directors reported that they did not have sufficient care staff in their areas to deliver services this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey carried out in October and November. Pay care staff ‘much more than national living wage’ – .

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler. Alison Murray, deputy director, adult social care, at the CQC, who was awarded an MBE.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

It said its view that rationing was the source of the drop in the numbers receiving long-term care was supported by watchdog Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman in its annual review of adult social care complaints, published in October 2022.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

English councils increased their headcount of adult social workers, including agency staff, from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, a 7% boost, according to annual statistics released this week by Skills for Care. Over the same period, the social worker vacancy rate fell from 11.6%

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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. Council heads welcome funding Council leadership bodies said the funding shift would help them tackle pressures on services, particularly this coming winter.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

The findings come from a snaphot survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) released today, in the context of what the association described as a “national emergency” Relaxing Care Act duties mooted. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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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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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. So, in 2012, ministers decided to appoint two chiefs – one for each service.

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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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