Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

An increase in adult social care funding next year should deliver “tangible improvements” to services, the government told councils today. The government said it would be providing an additional £2bn in social care grant in 2023-24 compared with 2022-23, though most of it is not new money. in real terms (9.2%

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. Government must fund £10.50

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. “Most people want to be discharged from hospital back home. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

The government will give the NHS an extra £200m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system. Barclay – NHS under ‘enormous pressures’ Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay (credit: HM Government). Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021. “The sector alone cannot solve those problems.” .

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Relias

MAY 6, 2022

Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. For example, if you have a target area score in the 85th percentile nationally, you are ranked in the bottom 15% of all hospitals for that target area in the nation. How will the information be delivered to your leadership team and governing board?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. Councils’ share of the £4.8bn in NHS funding, up by 5.7%

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2023

By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. Councils also commissioned 30% more home care hours from January to March 2023 (54.5

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

. “The scale of how many people are either not getting the care and support they need, or are getting the wrong kind of help, at the wrong time and in the wrong place is staggering,” McClinton told fellow sector leaders. million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care Vulnerable people face being denied basic preventive social care at home due to a wave of rapid discharges from hospitals that is sucking up resources, council bosses have warned. Continue reading.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. A southern unitary authority calculated there was a gap £100-135 per week gap for residential care, a £0.59

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. While vacancy rates rose for council adults’ practitioners from 2020-21, from 7.5%

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most of this will come via the Better Care Fund – the existing stream designed to support health and social care integration – to finance services to support hospital discharge, with the rest coming through a ring-fenced grant.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care and residential care sectors were running vacancy rates of 18% in addition to 14% absence rates last week. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals. Currently, more than 13,000 people who are medically fit for discharge are stuck in hospital every day.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. This was as part of a funding settlement ministers have said would provide councils with up to £2.8bn in 2023-24 and £4.7bn in 2024-25 for social care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The government has given the adult social care workforce a £300m boost through the winter which providers can use to increase staffing numbers or pay. Pay trends that have seen sectors including retail and cleaning outstripping social care. recruitment and retention fund announced in October. Vaccines boosted and visits limited.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Practitioners are having to step in to carry out welfare checks on adults going without the care they need due to mounting staff shortages in residential and home care, said the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% Related articles. the spokesperson said.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. Falling care home vacancies Vacancies appear to have fallen – and employment increased – since then in the care home sector.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. In the U.S., They are also active in politics at all levels.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. In its 2021 white paper, People at the Heart of Care, the government concluded that the full spirit of the Care Act had not been realised.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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