Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The £600m for social care announced in today’s Budget risks being swallowed up by wage and employer tax increases, leaving little or nothing to address spending pressures, sector leaders have warned. Both council and adult care provider bodies sounded the alarm over the impact of next year’s 6.7% rise in the national living wage (NLW) – which will benefit many thousands of

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Guardian investigation revealed scale of penalties for unwitting breaches of carer’s allowance earnings limits Budget 2024: key points at a glance The earnings limit placed on people who claim government support for taking care of disabled, sick and elderly loved ones will rise by £45 a week, the chancellor has announced, after a six-month Guardian investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care services will receive an extra £600m at least in government grant funding next year, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in today’s Budget. The package was part of a settlement for local authorities in England that will see their available budgets rise by an estimated 3.2% in real terms in 2025-26, compared with this year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We suggest that the National office for the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program use this item from The Daily Show as a training video In 2018, r esponding to former Today Show anchor Megyn Kelly’s appalling attempt to justify blackface, (for which she has apologized) her colleague Craig Melvin noted that, as a CNN story put it, “this controversy is an opportunity to inform people — but [Melvin] said most people already knew how offensive blackface is.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. You can watch President Biden issue the apology here. ● The Imprint has the reaction of tribal leaders, who praised the apology but noted that the words must be followed by action. The story cites, among others, Jonathan W.

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