Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can read more about the findings in our article.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. The second article was published in the Adoption Quarterly journal and it is based on the research conducted by Dr.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. The finding was based on comparing data from 99% of councils and 52% of NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) against the association’s the minimum price for home care, which was £25.95

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care 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.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. “It will improve social care capacity, boost discharge rates and avoid unnecessary admissions, freeing up hospital beds and reducing waits for care,” said care minister Helen Whately. .”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Gaps in care for people with more complex needs Authorities reported gaps in care for people needing specialist dementia care, autistic people, those with learning disabilities and people with mental health needs.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Providers also highlighted the council’s investment in the care workforce, including by funding them to pay above the above the real living wage (currently £12 an hour) and cover holiday pay, sick pay and travel time, thereby boosting recruitment and retention.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 15, 2022

Figures obtained by the Observer show thousands of people not receiving paid-for services because of lack of workers Nearly 9,000 people in England are waiting for home care services according to figures obtained by the Observer , but the true figure is likely to be much higher with the situation having worsened dramatically since last spring.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BBC: 60,000 adults chased by councils over social care costs Photo: AdobeStock/Prostock-studio A BBC report has revealed that councils in England chased over 60,000 disabled adults for social care debts last year.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

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 increase in funding since 2015-16 was also driven in part by growth in the unit costs of services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. an hour in the national living wage (NLW) from April 2022.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 26, 2023

For example, I ensure the person has all the relevant information to make the decision for example: financial advocacy, support services within the community, medical condition/prognosis; effects of medication; activities of daily living assessments,; details of care home; risks in returning home; care options, etc.

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Social Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

She feels fortunate to have a good home care provider and explains how identifying the right values and behaviours are crucial. Being on the group was a good opportunity to share my personal experience of extensively drawing on both social care and health care services and from being an unpaid carer for a relative with dementia.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in foster care before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.

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The Guardian

MAY 27, 2023

As outgoings exceed income, people can’t afford to pay for the support they need along with normal expenses Disabled people are paying “a tax on disability” by being forced to fund soaring care charges out of their benefits as the cost of living pushes care users into financial crisis.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

During the pandemic, despite risk to themselves, they continued to go out every day to ensure older and disabled people could live safely and well at home, acting as a lifeline for many.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2% in March, according to Skills for Care figures.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2025

Resources such as the NHSs Care services, equipment and care homes and Scopes How to get disability equipment and assistive technology can be invaluable. Services could also consider providing staff with a small budget to purchase non-prescribed equipment.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

You dont have to be a doctor to recognise that Rosy urgently needs 24/7 specialist home care. In the two-bedroom house Rosy shared with her teenage daughter and cat she was living out of her front room: a hospital-style bed and commode squashed in next to the television.

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