Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. The government has also made no provision to increase pay, aside from annual increases in the national living wage, saying this was a matter for employers.

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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

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. The new money is in addition to the £500m adult social care discharge fund , which is designed to both speed up hospital discharge and bolster the social care workforce over the winter.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The government has unveiled a £500m adult social care grant to free up hospital beds and bolster the care workforce this winter. Health and social care secretary Therese Coffey (credit: HM Government).

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

. “It is also adding to the endless pressures we see with ambulances and hospitals, and adding to the pressures we see in our communities, [including] more people requesting help with mental health and domestic abuse, [and] 2.2 million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.

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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

However, staffing problems – in the shape of rising vacancies and falling numbers of filled posts in provider organisations – have been mounting steadily since March 2021, leading the government to plough £462.5m to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

93% of directors said they backed more government funding for adult social care beyond £500m announced in September to support the workforce and hospital discharges , which is yet to be allocated two months on. Authorities are planning £1.3bn in adult social care savings in 2023-24. ” Two-year delay to care cap.

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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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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

This will be the basis of the case it will be making to government for how it invests in, and reforms, the system over the coming years. The roadmap gives us a tool, a resource to support a narrative with government. We want a shift from the dominant narrative around hospital discharge. ”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

.” However, they warned that the current situation left councils in “the invidious position of having to make decisions about paying providers more to retain staff at the same time as being very aware of the numbers of people waiting for or having insufficient care and support” While the government has provided councils and NHS leaders (..)

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The government’s £500m injection of cash into adult social care this winter is a mere “sticking plaster” for the sector’s underlying problems, leaders have warned. ” Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said it had wanted to see the government announce an immediate pay rise for care staff last week.

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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.

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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. Last Friday, the County Councils Network said that three-quarters of its members were planning to tighten eligibility for adult social care due to inflation and mounting demand.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

A BASW spokesperson said staff shortages in the wider workforce had been exacerbated by Omicron, resulting in a lack of provision “to facilitate hospital discharge or to support a preventative approach”. More social workers needed to deal with hundreds of thousands more assessments, government confirms. the spokesperson said.

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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 18, 2023

The PSW network’s intervention comes on the back of the number of medically fit people awaiting discharge reaching 14,000 in early January – the highest level on record – due to a lack of social care, community health and other services to support them on their return home.

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The Guardian

JUNE 14, 2023

Karen Edmunds and Jol Miskin respond to the government’s plan to use volunteers to plug gaps in social and health care services I had to read your article twice to get over the shock of yet another government sticking plaster ( Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges, 6 June ).

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The Guardian

JANUARY 4, 2023

We must take issue with the claim by a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson quoted in the report that the government is giving social care “the biggest funding increase in history” of “up to £7.5bn available over the next two years”. In the past, the split has been 50:50.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

While the party said it would introduce a fair pay agreement for adult social care workers and indicated it would implement the current government’s adult social care charging reforms, it did not allocate any resources to either, prompting criticism that the policies would trigger cuts elsewhere.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Injection of government cash The increased spending in 2023-24 came on the back of the then government making significantly more resource available to councils in 2023-24, including by diverting funds earmarked for the overhaul of the adult social care charging system. The average weekly fee paid to care home providers rose by 11.6%

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2025

in 2025-26, the government has announced. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. NHS fees for care homes to fund nursing services will rise by 7.7%

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 24, 2025

Amongst other papers, I found a CQC special study on hospital discharge from 2004, the 2008 End of Life Care strategy (another hot topic as the Assisted Dying Bill progresses) and from 2009, a vision to reform our care and support system to establish a National Care Service.

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