Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The “dire state of social care” is among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report designed to provide a blueprint for a 10-year plan for the health service. “Financial flows must lock-in this change irreversibly or it will not happen.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. In hospital for between 10 and 30 years. Almost half did not have an exit strategy from long-term segregation or a robust discharge plan.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dedicated funding for adult social care in England will rise by just over £1bn next year, according to government plans. The funding was set out in a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) policy statement on the local government finance settlement for 2025-26 , published last week.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. However, she raised concerns about the time-limited nature of resourcing of them.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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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

APRIL 27, 2022

A government change reducing the cap on care costs’ benefit to less wealthy people has become law, following a parliamentary battle. The government says its change will save £900m a year. Opposition peers failed to prevent the change in a vote last night in the House of Lords. Hit to less wealth and those in poorer regions.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. CQC urges government to fund better pay for care staff to tackle ‘gridlocked’ system. Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

The government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government believe[s] that the fairest version of the cap would be based on what people contribute towards their care, rather than our counting local authority contributions as well,” he said.

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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. This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

It is important to remember that the government does not have a majority in the Lords and could be defeated on particular votes. In response, Baroness Merron stated that the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals is indeed unacceptable.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2025

Opposition amendments to the bill Several amendments were made to the bill despite being opposed by the government. The government minister, Baroness Merron (Labour), argued that due to drafting deficiencies, the effect of the amendment would be to give the police additional detention powers, contrary to its intentions.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

These were equity in experience and outcomes; partnerships and communities; safe pathways, systems and transitions; governance, management and sustainability, and leadership, improvement and innovation.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

Governments can – and many successfully have – put in place community-based services that meet the needs of everyone in the community, without resorting to criminal enforcement. By employing these community-based interventions, governments can address homelessness without resorting to criminal enforcement.

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. The arrangements provide for the person to receive care or treatment mainly in an independent hospital. There is as yet no implementation date for LPS.

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Community Care

AUGUST 6, 2024

Social care practice leaders have offered their “expertise and support” to the new Labour government in a bid to shape policy on the sector. They said they were particularly well-placed to support the government through their direct connections to frontline social work, AMHP and OT practice, alongside their role as sector leaders.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” Then comes a claim that, for some hospitals, is demonstrably false. The hospital contacts CPS only when staff suspect maltreatment. And these are just the hospitals that will say it out loud. Emphasis added.]

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. Delay to cap on care costs being considered. of their budgets) in 2023-24.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Impact of government cash and priorities While the number of council adult social services staff has also increased in each of the past two years, the number of social workers has risen at a faster rate. Alongside the rising numbers of staff, the vacancy rate for adults’ fell markedly, from 10.5% in 2022-23 to 8.8%

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. Government must fund £10.50

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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. “Most people want to be discharged from hospital back home. “We need to fix the problem at both ends,” she said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 6, 2022

? Responding to investigative reporting by NPR, the federal government has told states they no longer have to make parents pay ransom to get their children back from foster care. They don’t call it ransom, of course, but when someone takes away your child and makes you pay money to get the child back, anything else is a euphemism).

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That was the warning from approved mental health professional leaders as they urged the government to require partner agencies to support the MHA assessment process, as AMHP services are obliged to do. Once beds had been identified, AMHPs often faced further delays in securing transport to take the person to hospital.

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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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The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2023

Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation Care providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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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 5, 2023

The government has announced that the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is being delayed beyond this Parliament. The government had hoped to fully implement the LPS by April 2022. This short article explains the implications of this decision for the health and social care sector, and the likely way forward.

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Relias

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, this leaves many new nurses without the hands-on training and clinical skills necessary for success — contributing to burnout and high turnover rates that can cost a hospital between $55,000 to $85,000 per nurse. Nurse residency programs benefit both nurses and hospitals.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Under section 13 of the MHA, councils must engage an AMHP to consider a person’s case if it has reason to believe that an application may need to be made to detain them in hospital. “In these circumstances people are often left at risk, admitted to acute hospital or held for long periods in A&E, police custody or at home.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

They believe the hospital called the Allegheny County family police agency, which immediately took away the child. That story builds on outstanding reporting by the Associated Press. Both stories center on Andrew and Lauren Hackney, who followed their doctor’s advice and took their infant to the ER when the baby wasn’t eating enough.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.” Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care. “We need a complete transformation. .”

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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. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Proposals to overhaul the Mental Health Act 1983 will be considered by Parliament over the next year, the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech.

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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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