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CO4Kids
AUGUST 14, 2024
Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Communicate. or lindsey.tapp@state.co.us Consider becoming a treatment or therapeutic foster parent.
Community Care
AUGUST 2, 2024
There is a £1bn shortfall in home care fees paid and the amount required by providers in England to pay staff the statutory minimum wage, meet other costs and make a “small” profit. On average, councils and health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland paid providers £23.26 on the year before. over the past year.
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Community Care
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Most home care providers have seen a fall in the number of hours of care councils have commissioned from them, research has found. Half of agencies (48%) reported a fall of 25% in the number of hours of care available to them to deliver, with a further 32% reporting decreases of less than this, found the Homecare Association.
Community Care
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. That was the message from the Homecare Association as it announced that the minimum for 2023-24 would be £25.95 , up from £23.20
The Guardian
MARCH 12, 2024
Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed One of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits.
The Guardian
APRIL 19, 2022
The federal government last year pledged $6.5bn to fund an extra 80,000 home care packages to alleviate the huge unmet demand from Australia’s ageing population, after the royal commission warned of “unacceptable” delays. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading.
The Guardian
JULY 12, 2023
One in five firms see risk of financial failure in next six months due to sums owed by NHS and councils Dozens of home care companies in England fear collapse because invoices are going unpaid by councils and the NHS.
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