Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The regulator found councils lacked sufficient assessors to deal with the volume of cases they received from care homes and hospitals, but also identified a “wide variation” in how authorities managed applications and in backlog levels.

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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.

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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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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.

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Community Care

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. At the same time, much of the resource it has provided is directed towards clearing hospital beds, rather than the vision of social care as a vehicle for better lives.

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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

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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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 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 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

MARCH 12, 2024

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. A cultural shift is required within social care to ensure that older and disabled people’s rights are recognised and protected.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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. The MSIF is designed to help councils increase fees to providers, boost workforce capacity and cut waiting times for assessments and services.

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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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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

a social safety net for all citizens [was created, providing support] for the homeless, disabled people and older people, obliging local authorities to provide suitable accommodation." For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals in hospital settings. "[Alongside the birth of the NHS].

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

We can work within the human services realm or serve outside of traditional social service organizations, bringing all our strengths where ever we go. Social work is truly one of the most versatile fields of study. Helping COVID-19 patients in the hospital. We can be counselors, or we can be politicians.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Data showed that 86% of people who received a short-term service in the borough did not require ongoing support, while 84% of older people were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital to a reablement service, exceeding the England average in both cases.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Our efforts on migration, the retention of the Human Rights Act and the “homes not hospitals” deinstitutionalization work [regarding people with learning disabilities and autistic people] in England has been powerful. There are many campaign activities to be proud of.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Social workers offer a wide range of services, including counseling and therapy, individual and group sessions, to help people deal with emotional, psychological, and behavioural issues.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” ‘Deeply disappointing’ In its response, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , focused on the absence of funding Sunak provided to help social care services through the winter, beyond the £162.5m Social workers see how poverty can make everyday life difficult and challenging.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

It is similarly critical that social workers be at the table to develop and implement culturally relevant messages to ensure reliable, accurate, and timely information is distributed to populations known to be at high risk for COVID-19 infection and hospitalization. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

Beverley Tarka, ADASS president, 2023-24 “The government has listened to calls from directors and others in adult social care to make resources available earlier to support planning for winter,” said Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Beverley Tarka.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

For those students who have held on, the required social work internships have evolved dramatically. Social work students deliver services online, learn remotely, and show up to social services agencies in deep transition. Carol, a school social worker, serves youth with serious physical disabilities.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The sector has not been as prominent as it should have been during the campaign and when it has been discussed, it has been characterised as “broken” and in crisis, or with a “narrow” focus on how it should be paid for and how it can help cut hospital waiting lists, they said. “Important questions, of course.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. “We will enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a fair pay agreement in adult social care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, former director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? I’d rather take the beating than catch a CPS case,’ as one said to me.” . ●

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