Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% below March 2021 levels, shows data released this month by Skills for Care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, across almost all services, including day centres, residential respite, group activities, sitting services and social work, most of these respondents said they were now getting less or no support. In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

There is also an upward trend in sickness absence , with the average number of days lost to sickness per worker in the previous 12 months rising to 9.7 Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% and care workers 12.2%. among care worker posts specifically.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. .” “The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The figures showed that, as of September 2022, the numbers of vacancies and posts held by agency staff had reached record levels, average caseloads had risen and the number of social workers in post had fallen for the first time since 2017.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

A safeguarding investigation that failed to uncover the harmful care a woman received at a care home “relied heavily” on the provider’s own internal probe into the concerns. “It said the social worker did not thoroughly cross-check the documentation.” Inappropriate placement.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Data commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), forming found ethnic minority staff in the independent care sector were likelier than white peers to be on zero-hours contracts. More on racial inequalties in social care. proper wage rises and ensuring ?decent decent sick pay.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years. Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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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.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. It said the “deeply disappointing” findings showed the care market was in an “untenable operating position” and urged Whately to “acknowledge the findings and invest in social care”.

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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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