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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% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. Pay care staff ‘much more than national living wage’ – .

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‘Rapidly deteriorating situation’ for social care, finds ADASS

Community Care

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

Community Care

Reduced service capacity Workforce shortages had resulted in reduced service capacity. The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

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

Community Care

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

Community Care

However, this has not been set out explicitly by the Treasury, nor has any funding been announced to cover the impact of the increase on voluntary and private sector employers, including care providers, though the smallest businesses will be protected. These decisions risk sending many over the edge.”

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One in eight councils moved to ‘life and limb care only’ for at least some people over Christmas, warns ADASS

Community Care

Over half have taken the “least acceptable” actions in response to the situation including prioritising life-sustaining care, being unable to undertake reviews of risk, relying on family members, carers or providers for these or leaving vulnerable people isolated for longer periods than usual.

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

Community Care

Funding shortfall However, this does not cover the extra costs facing authorities from the impact of the employer NICs rise on the providers that they commission, notably in adults’ services. Employers cannot offer fair pay without a fair price for care. If Labour is serious about improving social care, they must act now.”