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The number of socialworkers employed by council adults’ services in England has reached a new record high, official figures show. The rise in staffing numbers is likely to reflect an injection of government grant funding and council tax receipts into adults’ services from 2023-25. in 2022-23 to 8.8%
These were equity in experience and outcomes; partnerships and communities; safe pathways, systems and transitions; governance, management and sustainability, and leadership, improvement and innovation. Though there were high numbers of reviews overdue, this had reduced since October 2023, with partners praising the timeliness of reviews.
Though the resources were always designed to be time-limited, social care bodies warned their removal carried significant risks for a fragile sector at the height of the latest Covid-19 wave. This pandemic is not over, social care staff continue to do their utmost to keep those who draw on social care safe with limited resources.
Hospitalsocialworkers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospitalsocial work under Covid.
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%
Socialworkers 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% Mounting staff shortages. to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%
Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a socialworker, to participate in the MDT.
Three in ten of the socialworkers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I was fortunate to qualify as a socialworker and then did a masters in strategic leadership.
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.
Amongst other papers, I found a CQC special study on hospitaldischarge 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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