Government Recovery Social Services 
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.
Community Care
DECEMBER 19, 2024
An extra 200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. Were all authorities to do so, this would yield about 970m, some of which would be available for adult social care.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The government has granted almost one in five English councils ‘exceptional financial support’ (EFS) to help them balance their books in 2025-26. We desperately need a sustainable solution to the crisis in local government finance, which has been years in the making. increase in the national living wage (NLW).
Community Care
OCTOBER 25, 2021
English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.
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.
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.
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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