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

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. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. per hour per social care employee.

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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

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.

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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. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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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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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.

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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

JUNE 21, 2024

The sector has not been as prominent as it should have been during the campaign and when it has been discussed, it has been characterised as “broken” and in crisis, or with a “narrow” focus on how it should be paid for and how it can help cut hospital waiting lists, they said. “Important questions, of course.

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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

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 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. NHS urged to work with councils .

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And despite the number of vacancies across social care falling in 2022-23, mainly due to international recruitment, 54% of providers surveyed reported recruitment difficulties and 31% retention challenges. The social care sector is brimming with talent and provides essential support for our citizens.

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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

JULY 16, 2024

Adult social care faces its “worst financial outlook” for at least seven years on the back of rising levels and complexity of need and costs being shifted from the NHS, a survey of directors has revealed.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. Digital technology can contribute to this, as can people other than social workers.

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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

JUNE 21, 2023

By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. Though the association said it supported a higher wage floor than this for care staff, it stressed the government needed to fully fund it.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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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

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. Currently, more than 13,000 people who are medically fit for discharge are stuck in hospital every day.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. ADASS added that, should that happen, the government would need to “re-evaluate its expectations” of councils.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It has granted Worcestershire council the right to appeal a Court of Appeal judgment that ruled against the authority and in favour of the government, in a case concerning ordinary residence in relation to section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Learn about the government’s new approach. Related articles.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The findings come with the government urging councils to boost home care capacity in their areas to deal with what are anticipated to be severe pressures on the health and social care systems this winter.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments of local authority adult social services are still due to start in a matter of weeks despite the process for doing so not having been agreed. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed that the adults’ assessments were still on course to commence at the start of April.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There were 5,666 full-time equivalent (FTE) practitioners working for Scottish authorities as of the end of 2021, a rise of 200 (3.7%) on the previous year, according to the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) annual workforce data report published this week. in 2021-22 and is allocating £3.4m

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said. McClinton said the settlement was not sufficient to help councils increase the rates they pay providers in real terms.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2023

The government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is “an unacceptable blow” to the thousands of people currently unlawfully deprived of their liberty. And in announcing the news, the DHSC gave no indication of an intent from the current government to implement the LPS should it return to power.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The government has given the adult social care workforce a £300m boost through the winter which providers can use to increase staffing numbers or pay. ” The DHSC also said it expected the funding to reduce pressures on the NHS by boosting social care capacity in order to cut delayed discharges from hospital.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2023

The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. This sets out that the section 117 duty is triggered when a person ceases to be detained and leaves hospital.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. Council heads welcome funding Council leadership bodies said the funding shift would help them tackle pressures on services, particularly this coming winter.

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