Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the 2.1bn improved BCF grant which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge and 0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge. Employers cannot offer fair pay without a fair price for care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

The BCF policy framework for 2025-26 said such teams were designed to provide “more integrated and proactive care for people with complex needs”, to help them “stay independent for as long as possible” and reduce the likelihood of them being admitted to hospital or care homes. in 2025-26.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

There may have been hospitalizations. The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. There may have been some episodes of violence.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was in a psychosis.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Dear Mr Javid, I am writing, in this open letter, to express my grave and continuing concern over the care and support for people who have a learning disability and autistic people detained in inpatient care or at risk of such detention. I attach Dimensions’ response to the committee report. Disappointing.

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Disability Hospitals Government 67

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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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

As we described in our amicus brief in this case , which Justice Sotomayor drew on in her dissent, this will have devastating consequences on the large and growing number of Americans experiencing homelessness, including people with mental health disabilities.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs News & Press Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month DENVER (March 3, 2025) More than 5,000 Coloradans are hospitalized with a brain injury each year and more than a half-million Coloradans are living with a brain injury. Brain injuries can impact anyone, said Russha Knauer, director of MINDSOURCE.

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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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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who have experienced abuse, trauma-informed care can prove very helpful. The impact and prevalence of trauma among persons with disabilities is hard to ignore. Other experiences that are unique to individuals with disabilities can be considered traumatic.

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Disability Domestic Violence Communication Human Services 52

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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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 51

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a move that would have been unheard-of just a few years ago, New Jersey Spotlight News reports that the state Attorney General is suing a chain of hospitals to stop them from performing clandestine drug tests on pregnant women and then reporting the results to the family police. Some even are celebrated. And again a reminder: The U.S.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Johnson’s case is particularly concerning given his extensive documented history of mental illness, learning disabilities, abuse, and trauma. Johnson’s adolescence was riddled with suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and he ultimately was diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as age 16, according to the Missouri Supreme Court.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a member of the Fatal Five conditions, dehydration can affect those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) more than others. Though the solution to Ben’s problem was a unique one, dehydration is a common and dangerous problem for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

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Disability Hospitals Communication Interventional 21

Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How can you help your clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) combat constipation and the other Fatal Five conditions to achieve a better quality of life? For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five. Providing support, companionship, and dedicated, compassionate care can go a long way.

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Disability Hospitals Interventional Human Services 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It’s bad enough that hospitals routinely test pregnant women for drugs without their consent, and then routinely report a positive result to the family police. That’s why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … Yes, they really do that.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. It’s another consequence of the widespread practice of hospitals testing mothers and newborns for drugs without consent – well, not all mothers, of course. ? Now the Department of Justice has stepped in.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

It will produce a draft bill designed to reduce the number of detentions, tackle longstanding racial disparities in the use of compulsory powers and end the detention of people on the sole grounds of them being autistic or having learning disabilities. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), aspiration and the other members of the Fatal Five conditions pose a serious threat to their quality of life and, in some cases, can be deadly. Other factors may be disability specific. For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Learning disabilities and autism The draft bill aims to strengthen safeguards for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. The draft bill would also remove learning disabilities and autism as conditions for which an individual could be detained for treatment under section 3 of the MHA.

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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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Hospitals Disability Social Worker Mental Health 19

Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Leftover social care reforms MHA reform: this would reform the 1983 act to lower the thresholds for detention in hospital and community treatment orders and exclude autistic people and people with learning disabilities from being detained for treatment without a co-existing mental health condition.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was in a psychosis.

Depression 52

Depression Disorder Mental Health Hospitals 52

Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

“Only by prioritising the provision of high-quality support for disabled people of all ages, will we have a fairer society where everyone is able to thrive.” “Only by prioritising the provision of high-quality support for disabled people of all ages, will we have a fairer society where everyone is able to thrive.”

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. Unaware or unaccepting of their peer’s differences : The reasons for being bullied cited most often by students were physical appearance, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, and sexual orientation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. This comes on the heels of AP’s revelation that the most far-reaching – and most highly-touted – such algorithm of all, the one in Pittsburgh, is under investigation by the U.S.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare Disability 75

University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Room: 2208 Presentation : A Comparison of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Among Latinx Parents of Children with Disabilities Author(s) : Mogro-Wilson, C. & Room: 22006 Presentation : Use of Buprenorphine Among Non-Hospital Residential Programs Author(s) : Nichols, C. & Valenzuela, F. Time : 2:15 p.m. - & Holle, L.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Since then, this sweeping, groundbreaking law has improved the health of all Americans, including children, women and families, men, older adults, communities of color, those with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQI+. Social workers are essential team members in hospitals, primary care, specialty care, and community-based organizations.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 56

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Common themes discussed concerned challenges in the provider market, mental health impacts of lockdown and social isolation, issues for people with learning disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, increasing pressures on family carers, challenges regarding prevention and the changing use of technology.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: “If it had passed, it would have taken the cap beyond the grasp of older people with few or modest assets, poorer places and disabled people of working age. It will also disproportionately affect working age adults with disabilities.” They should not be taken for granted.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

“More than 50 million PCR and 142 million LFD kits have been delivered to care homes and we have invested a further £478 million to support safe and timely hospital discharges to get patients into the best place for their care and support to continue.”.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability Mental Health 60

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.

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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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