Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An extra 200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. Were all authorities to do so, this would yield about 970m, some of which would be available for adult social care. this year to 32.14

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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.

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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. “We must recognise that long-term, sustainable investment is needed in primary and community based care and support and for family carers.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The DHSC said that, in most areas, prioritising home care would have the greatest impact on reducing delayed discharges to social care. Channelling the funding through the NHS reflects a growing shift towards resourcing adult social care through the health service.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The campaign is calling on the government to review the measures, with 3,900 providers and people having signed a letter to chancellor Rachel Reeves warning that the policies risk “eroding the foundations” of adult social care services.

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