Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. It is “impossible” to meaningfully assess the effectiveness of child in need (CIN) plans because of their lack of clear measures of success. That was the warning from Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza in a report that called for tighter national guidance on CIN plans and support to improve consistency and their impact for families.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Rising costs and demand are a huge strain on council budgets and services face ‘intolerable pressures’, says Adass England’s overstretched and creaking adult social care services need urgent government intervention to stabilise them financially as rising costs and demand play havoc with council budgets, care bosses have warned. The financial challenge facing adult social care continued to be “as bad as it has been in recent history”, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass)

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A long-term decline in the number of people receiving adult social care in England has been partially reversed, official data shows. Councils funded long-term care packages for 858,720 people during 2023-24, up 2.8% on the year before, which in turn followed a 2.1% rise in 2022-23, according to NHS England’s annual adult social care activity and finance report.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sue, who lost her husband to Parkinson’s disease and dementia, says the rating system left her ‘angry, utterly powerless and disenfranchised’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Families who feel misled by the federal government’s star rating system for aged care homes have welcomed the commonwealth ombudsman’s call for it to be overhauled.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If ever someone deserved the high honor of the title Maestro, it was Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., born in Chicago on March 14, 1933. His Earthly journey ended Sunday night, peacefully surrounded by family and loved ones at 91. His music will continue to delight music lovers for generations to come. We have not heard the last from Quincy Jones. I am sure a trove of unrecorded music in his vault will be released in the coming years.

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