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

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

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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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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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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The ideas were shared last week by David Pearson, co-chair of the steering group developing the strategy, in a session at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services spring seminar. ” .

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Extra funding ‘welcome but not enough’ This was enabled by the government diverting money from reforming the social care charging system to frontline services, and permitting authorities to raise council tax by 5% this year without a referendum, with some of the proceeds ring-fenced for adults’ services.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Additional funding for social care Since the end of the 2022-23 year, the government has increased investment in adult social care, making available for 2023-25: £3.2bn extra through the existing social care grant, with 60% expected to be spent on adults’ services and 40% on children’s services.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

. ‘One Deal for Social Work’ The One Deal for Social Work ‘s aims were backed by leadership body Social Work Scotland while the Scottish Government did not rule out the introduction of national terms and conditions for practitioners.

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2024

One in nine councils with social services responsibilities are getting emergency government help to enable them to balance their books. After Birmingham, the next biggest recipient of support is Bradford council, which will receive £80m for 2023-24 and £140m for 2024-25 in capitalisation support.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Lack of accessible information and advice Despite the Care Act 2014 and Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 requiring councils to provide people with accessible information and advice on social care in their areas, the EHRC found this was not always the case in relation to challenging decisions.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Seeking further savings from social care after a decade of austerity is “fanciful and deeply worrying”, sector leaders have warned after chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced government departments would need to deliver more efficiencies. But inflation, according to the government’s preferred measures, has risen from 4.2%

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2023

A yes vote could lead to walkouts by the union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers across the UK – this summer. Fellow union Unite will start balloting members on industrial action shortly, while the third local government union, GMB, is also planning to do so. by April 2024.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The inquiry also urged the creation of Child Protection Authorities for England and Wales responsible for improving practice by statutory agencies and other instutitions, advising government on policy and, where they consider necessary, inspecting organisations. Mandatory reporting requirement.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most English councils are struggling to recruit and retain social workers, with finding and keeping children’s practitioners the biggest challenge across the workforce. a year previously, according to Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) research.

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

This identified four key “frustrations” in the role: council-based bureaucratic, political, financial and workload pressures; disappointment with government children’s services policy; concerns about the status of children’s services among local partnerships, and the impact of inspection and regulation.

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

Social workers and other children’s services staff and volunteers will be mandated to report child sexual abuse (CSA), Suella Braverman pledged yesterday. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

” Concerns echoed by ADASS and NHS leaders The network’s concerns were echoed by the Association of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, which represents sector providers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Social workers to have registration fees paid. In addition, staff who need to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) to perform their role will have their annual fees paid for by the Scottish Government. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.

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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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