Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For the first time since at least 2017, less than half (48.4%) of social workers were defined as “case holders”, meaning they were neither senior practitioners nor a manager, down from 52% in 2019. The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. However, in November last year, the government announced a two-year delay to the reforms, recycling £3.2bn to help councils meet current pressures.

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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.

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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. per hour per social care employee. Related articles. percentage points from September 2021 to March 2022 – but this was reducing profitability.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Some councils are already spending up to 80% of their budget on social care and say costs are rising and increasingly unsustainable The spiralling cost of social services is eating into the budgets of England’s largest councils to the extent that many will soon be forced to abandon “nice to have” functions such as arts and youth clubs and Sure Start (..)

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ”

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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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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. reducing risks to and promoting the well-being of children in need of help and protection.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance invites you join us for our Annual Symposium—to be held virtually during Social Service Workforce Week. Opening Remarks: Rebecca Levy, U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story – especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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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

JULY 31, 2024

Scrapping the cap on care costs is “another example of social care being tossed aside”, according to the architect of the reforms. While successive governments have agreed to implement a version of the reforms, they have then either ditched or delayed them.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2024

Mounting social care costs will leave English councils facing a £6.2bn financial black hole over the next two years, the Local Government Association has warned political parties ahead of the general election. It expects the national living wage, which is a significant driver of adult social care cost pressures, to rise by 6.5%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. By some estimates, nationwide, there may be as many children in hidden foster care/blackmail placements as there are in the kind where the numbers are officially reported to the federal government and the public.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States had other sources of federal reimbursement for these programs, such as Title IV-B, the Social Services Block Grant, and TANF. But above all, these services were funded by Medicaid, a federal entitlement program that receives the same federal match as Title IV-E. Clearly, priorities are out of whack.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The government will delay the introduction of the cap on care costs for two years, in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement next week, The Times has reported. The measure is designed to contribute to government plans to make expected reductions of over £30bn a year in spending to shore up the public finances.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since he qualified in 1972, he has seen the sector through many changes while wearing different hats: social worker, academic, director of social services, independent reviewer and, notably, the unofficial social work spokesperson on the Peter Connelly (Baby P) case. It would bring the focus back to the community.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

Kamerman was my professor during my doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work. She taught me much of what I know about the welfare state and providing social services in the United States. I was thrilled to meet a black social worker practicing political social work before I knew such a thing existed.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Assistant Professor Sunggeun (Ethan) Park’s research is cited in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Park and his co-author’s research shows that when local social service organizations take the lead in making policy decisions, the rates of homelessness decrease.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

A government-backed leadership training scheme has been launched for principal social workers (PSW), approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads and principal occupational therapists (POT) in adults’ services in English councils. An in-person conference at the end of the programme.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. in real terms.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bronson was found huddled by his father’s body by a social worker. How could such a terrible thing happen when social services knew he was vulnerable? A social worker went to the property on 2 January and tried again two days later when no one answered. The last days of his life can only have been profoundly distressing.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 14, 2023

When faced with complex national, regional, and global challenges, social service professionals serve as beacons of hope. With their vast research expertise, social work practice knowledge and skills, they inspire transformation, resilience, empowerment, and hope.

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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

MAY 3, 2024

The government plans to publish data on every council’s waiting times for adult social care assessments and services, it has revealed. The figures will be broken down into the four main service types: community, residential, nursing and short-term care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has streamlined its process for assessing council adult social care services following significant concerns about the burden on authorities. It said it would be notifying the first group of authorities to be assessed this week. ”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Romeo qualified as a social worker in 1977 in her native Australia and, after moving to the UK, worked in a series of social work and management roles in local government, along with a stint at the former Social Services Inspectorate.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) latest snapshot survey on the state of the sector also found that, while more care home care was being delivered than last year, an estimated two million commissioned hours went undelivered in January to March this year due to a lack of workforce capacity.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. States were already providing these services before FFPSA and they could have increased them without the promised federal funding.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Councils are rationing adult social care through “subjective” eligibility judgments, a think-tank has concluded. The IFG said that the government’s failure to uprate the savings thresholds for accessing council-funded care since 2010 , reducing their value by 25%, had made it harder for people to access care.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Andrew Gwynne told the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring seminar that, should the party win the forthcoming election, it would “seek to introduce” the changes first conceived of by economist Andrew Dilnot in a 2011 report for the then coalition government.

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