Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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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. “Every bit of extra funding helps.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“Things have never been so bad,” for people needing care, carers and staff, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned. million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year. Reform funding ‘should be retained and increased’ .

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

The findings come from a snaphot survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) released today, in the context of what the association described as a “national emergency” Relaxing Care Act duties mooted. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time, 94% of directors reported that they did not have sufficient care staff in their areas to deliver services this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey carried out in October and November. Pay care staff ‘much more than national living wage’ – .

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. 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. ”

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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

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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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. vacancy rate, as of March and the mounting cost of living crisis.

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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% to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

Sarah McClinton , Les Bright and Jeremy Seymour on the pressures facing the care home sector Heads of adult social services share concern at the poor quality of some care and support for people living with dementia ( Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety, 28 December ).

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Labour Party has made no funded commitments on social care in its general election manifesto, published yesterday. The lack of funded commitments on social care is similar to the position put forward by the Conservatives in their manifesto, published earlier this week.

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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. in cash terms, from £992.80 in 2022-23 to £1,108.40

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