Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alongside the three-month review, led by Baroness (Louise) Casey, the government will support – and fund – councils to carry out local inquiries into gang-based, initially in five areas, Cooper told the House of Commons today.

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Community Care

MARCH 11, 2025

Government departments and public bodies are to be placed under a duty to promote life chances for children in care and care leavers in England, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The government will create a body to set pay and conditions for adult social care staff in England should its Employment Rights Bill become law. Under the bill, the government would also be able to ask the negotiating body to reconsider proposed agreements.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2025

The Scottish Government has ditched plans to restructure adult social care in the country into a ‘national care service’ (NCS). Notably, in 2023, the government said it would share accountability for the NCS with the NHS and councils. But this is within the part of the bill that is now being removed from the legislation.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Budget’s ‘catastrophic’ impact on social care In her speech, Williams is expected to say: “The budget had catastrophic impacts on the cost of adult social care – not just for local government, but also for out important partners who support people in their neighbourhoods and places in our voluntary and community sector.”

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Community Care

APRIL 16, 2025

The government has renewed funding to help overseas care staff who have lost work and are facing removal from the UK due to “unethical” employment practices or providers not complying with visa rules. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The government will legislate to create a new type of accommodation for children with complex needs in England who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty. Stanley also said that Ofsted was looking to make changes to its social care common inspection framework, which governs its regulation of sector providers.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2025

The government has launched a new qualification to enhance social care leaders’ digital skills but has been criticised by a provider body for covering a “tiny fraction” of the sector’s training costs. It has also updated the list of courses covered by LDSS funding.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Image: Jioji Ravulo, Malakai Waqa Kaitani, Nathan Chong-Nee, Andrzej Frank, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, a team of six social workers, including representatives […]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

And no wonder: In a foster care placement, an agent of the government demands that parents surrender their children. The government then decides where that child will go perhaps to a relative, perhaps to a stranger, perhaps to a group home or institution. Because, DCF says, theyre police protective custody placements, thats why!

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

pay rise next April after the government announced the 2025 increase in the national living wage (NLW). Councils’ ability to cover the 2025 rise will depend on the local government funding settlement they receive for 2025-26 from chancellor Rachel Reeves in tomorrow’s Budget. Many thousands of care workers will get a 6.7%

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 18, 2024

Social Work will be present and active at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2024, to be held in Samoa this October. The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work […]

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Community Care

MARCH 13, 2025

The government has curbed the recruitment of care staff from overseas with adults’ providers in England instead required to prioritise hiring international workers already in the country. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This is above the 12.21 ”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Despite their critical role, these connections are often overlooked or ignored by governments and policymakers. This theme underscores the importance of intergenerational care and connections as fundamental to everyone’s well-being and the creation of functional economies and societies.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JUNE 6, 2024

Eighteen young carers from eleven Commonwealth countries have created a video promoting the Commonwealth Charter for Young Carers, urging leaders to endorse it at their October 2024 meeting in Samoa. […]

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Community Care

JULY 29, 2024

The government has scrapped the planned cap on care costs to help tackle a black hole in the public finances it claimed was left by the Conservatives. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced today that the adult social care charging reforms, due to be implemented next October, would be cancelled, saving £1.1bn by the end of 2025-26.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The government has launched an action plan to safeguard telecare users from the switching off of the UK’s analogue phone network. The switchover was initiated by the telecommunications industry, independently of government, with companies migrating customers to a digital service against an initial deadline of the end of 2025.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

[div class=”127″] The government has cut £115m from planned funding for adult social care training and development this year. New baseline qualification for social care The training and development fund, announced by the Conservative government in April, would have provided £53.9m

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2025

The findings come from the ADCS’s latest Safeguarding Pressures* research, its regular stocktake on the state of children’s social care in England, and were shared in a submission to the government’s child poverty taskforce.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

Having spent decades turning their backs on abuse in systems for which they have ultimate responsibility, one can only hope that for governments in California and across the country, getting hit with a $4 billion two-by-four will be enough to get their attention. Shut down the group homes and institutions.

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2025

The government will create a national agency to provide oversight of child protection practice in England, the safeguarding minister has revealed. The Welsh Government has said that the country’s existing National Independent Safeguarding Board fulfilled IICSA’s proposed remit for a CPA.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The government will legislate to tackle “profiteering” from children’s care placements in England, a minister has vowed. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Swhelper

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Team USA sent athletes from all military branches of our government, and they have […] View Full Article - Netflix’s Heart of Invictus: Raising Wounded Soldiers Awareness

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2025

However, the House of Commons overturned peers’ main amendment to the National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill, by 307 votes to 182, today, courtesy of the Labour government’s huge majority in the elected chamber. ” .” ” .” ”

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Citizenship and Immigration Services requesting the federal government help Texas confirm the citizenship status of more than 450,000 of Texas’ registered voters. Virginia is not alone in the effort to suppress votes in the 2024 election using vote purges. In early October, the state of Texas sent a letter to the U.S.

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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. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The “dire state of social care” is among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report designed to provide a blueprint for a 10-year plan for the health service.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Social care services are likely to be badly affected by cuts across most English councils next year, a Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Its results come a week before the government’s Budget, on 30 October, which will set public spending limits for 2025-26 as well as announcing further cuts to 2024-25 budgets.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. to 2.8m (29%).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Social care services will receive an extra £600m at least in government grant funding next year, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in today’s Budget. These are likely to be announced next spring, when the government unveils detailed public spending plans for the period from 2026 to 2030 in its spending review.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Children’s Charities Coalition issued the message after the government indicated that “fundamental reform” of the sector would be implemented from April 2026 at the earliest, in its Budget document, published yesterday. However, this was dependent on the reforms being implemented from 2023-24.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dedicated funding for adult social care in England will rise by just over £1bn next year, according to government plans. The funding was set out in a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) policy statement on the local government finance settlement for 2025-26 , published last week.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The government said the Mental Health Bill would tackle racial discrimination in care, end the inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and autistic people and give patients a greater say in decisions over their care. It will demand radical and brave action from government alongside proper funding.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The government plans to strengthen recently introduced agency social work rules by putting them into law, in a move dubbed “reckless” by recruitment firm leaders. These are all covered by the existing rules, so it is not clear whether the government wants to strengthen the content of the rules as well as their legal status.

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CCRC

JANUARY 21, 2025

CCRC appreciates the Governors proposed budget investments to provide Californias children and families most in need with essential safety nets and timely family well-being supports, said CCRC Government Relations Director LaWanda Wesley. This budget reflects both values and action.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

” From caution to alarm about government social care plans Fair to say that much of that positivity might have evaporated. increase in spending power is better than it might have been, even if it doesn’t quite rise to the heights of the “significant rise” called for by the Local Government Association.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The government will provide £44m for kinship and foster care in this week’s Budget, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The department said the government would make further reforms to children’s social care in future “to make sure every child, irrespective of background, has the best start in life”

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