Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, which represents charitable providers, said the Budget “falls far short of the commitment needed to put social care on a surer footing”, while also increasing costs for the sector.

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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. If Labour is serious about improving social care, they must act now.” Employers cannot offer fair pay without a fair price for care.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These profiles represent families that are unemployed, disabled, elderly, are single parent households, and recipients of some form of assistance such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Social Security Disability.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

The Care Quality Commission has issued the first outstanding rating for a council since it resumed assessing local authority adult social services at the end of 2023. ‘Proactive’ monitoring of service quality The London borough proactively monitored the quality of commissioned services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services has been a core journal in social work research for over 100 years. The PRLSP has been referenced and used as a model in various arenas such as the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and different social work programs throughout the nation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman. People don’t think about how traumatic these investigations are for kids.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report also indicates the preference for a master’s degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program for anyone serving as a director of social services in a nursing home. (NASEM report , p. 511; recommendations , p. 3, item 2b).

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care. This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, 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? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

About council ‘bankruptcy’ notices Five authorities with social services responsibilities – Birmingham, Croydon, Nottingham, Slough and Thurrock – have issued a section 114 notice in the past three years, meaning they were unable to meet their legal requirement to set a balanced budget.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. This responds to research that disabled people felt the two assessments overlapped and being repeatedly assessed.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors. Meanwhile, a retired social worker who worked to support Holocaust survivors was given a British Empire Medal (BEM).

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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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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The message came in a statement to the parties signed by 42 bodies from across local government, the provider sector, the workforce and disabled people’s organisations. “Promise that you will make change happen in the next Parliament, come up with sustainable funding and support the social care workforce. ”

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Self-care is important to social workers and in fact the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics included the importance of self-care when it was updated this year. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. Do you see any agencies doing this?

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2024

.” Reforms ‘unfunded’ and ‘ignored disabled people’ The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, which represents providers of services to disabled people, was more sanguine about the government’s decision, saying the reforms were unfunded and “ignored millions of disabled people drawing on social care” (..)

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Lack of accessible information and advice Despite the Care Act 2014 and Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 requiring councils to provide people with accessible information and advice on social care in their areas, the EHRC found this was not always the case in relation to challenging decisions.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 11, 2022

This workshop helps supervisors to support social service staff in using evidence-informed approaches to common illness-related challenges that confront clients across the life course. Assist supervisees in planning to meet the health needs of their clients.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Councils receiving 5,400 new requests for help each day while capacity has reduced significantly The state of social care in England has “never been so bad”, the country’s leading social services chief has said, with half a million people now waiting for help.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Councils ‘must retain money if reforms delayed’ Organisations including the Local Government Association, County Councils Network and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services also argued that the funding allocated for the reforms should be retained by councils during any delay, to invest in core social care services.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Compared with white children, kids of color are more likely to be removed from their homes, less likely to be reunited with their families, less likely to find foster families, and have less access to social, economic, educational, and healthcare opportunities for successful outcomes. Shelter’s executive director Carina H.

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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. Taking the helm at ADASS at its annual spring seminar this week, the importance of her appointment – and her position as a role model for others – was not lost on Tarka.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And just for my own wellbeing, I feel that Im on top of my caseload, which you dont hear social workers say that a lot. Beneficial for neurodivergent and disabled social workers A social worker with ADHD, dyslexia and arthritis also found that talking to the app significantly improved their workflow.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Its report came with increased government funding having led to a 10% real-terms increase in planned adult social care spending in 2023-24, compared with 2022-23. “This means co-production with communities, long term investment in technology, accessible housing with care and preventative services.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “We are grateful for all the work that homecare providers and their staff do, as part of our wider social care sector,” said a DHSC spokesperson. “ Extra resource welcome but insufficient – ADASS However, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said the extra resource, while welcome, was insufficient.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has touted its adult social care funding plans for 2023-24 and 2024-25 as the biggest increase in the sector’s history, claiming it was making up to £2.8bn and £4.7bn available for services, respectively.

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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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