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Community Care
JANUARY 31, 2025
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of the Better Care Fund (BCF), under which they are required to pool resources to tackle government priorities.
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
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
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. Preliminary Skills for Care data showed that, from March 2022 to April 2023: There was a 3.8% The nursing home vacancy rate, for all roles, fell from 8.8%
Community Care
APRIL 8, 2022
Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% Among roles, 18% of registered nursing posts were vacant, up 8.4 and care workers 12.2%. In relation to filled posts, nursing homes were most badly hit, with a fall of 6% since March 2021 and a drop of 8.5%
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 reality must now be realised.”
Community Care
OCTOBER 23, 2023
” 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. These scores will inform the single-word rating.
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