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

Community Care

Councils will also be allocated a new recovery grant worth 600m and an extra 50m in the broad-based revenue support grant (RSG), some of which the government intends should go on adults services. ” On behalf of charities providing care to disabled people, the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group issued a similar message.

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Social workers could join neighbourhood teams for people with complex needs

Community Care

The final core component of the model was the provision of short-term rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services, overseen by a registered therapist, to people at home, it added. As in previous years, some of this NHS money must be used to fund adult social care, with the DHSC stipulating that this component increase by at least 3.9%

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Substance Use Awareness for International Day of Persons With Disabilities

Gateway Foundation

Because December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it is a great time to increase your knowledge and awareness of disabilities. living with a disability. There are over 40 million people in the U.S.

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Proposed Mental Health Act overhaul included in Queen’s Speech

Community Care

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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The Fatal Five in IDD: What You Need to Know About Seizures

Relias

How can you help your clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who also experience seizures? Seizure disorder, also called epilepsy, is a developmental disability. However, there are many individuals with IDD who have epilepsy in addition to another disability. Prevent choking or aspiration.

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April Snow Brings May Slow, But I Keep On Fighting

A Splintered Mind

All that energy is directed towards my Daddy Duty (I have an adult, learning disabled, autistic child at home) and my current work in progress. I’m experimenting with one day of stamina training and one day of recovery, then repeating. Tomorrow will be a recovery day whether I want it to be or not. Let’s change that.

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UConn School of Social Work Faculty and Ph.D. Students to Present at CSWE 2024

University of Connecticut

Room: 2208 Presentation : A Comparison of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Among Latinx Parents of Children with Disabilities Author(s) : Mogro-Wilson, C. & Room: 2207 Presentation : The Implementation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Recovery Residences: Theoretical Framework Author : Nichols, C. & Valenzuela, F.

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