Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. .

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. “Every bit of extra funding helps.”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September. Vaccines boosted and visits limited.

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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

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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February.

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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% Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. Sustainability plans due The next stage of the fair cost process is for councils to publish market sustainability plans by 27 March 2023.

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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. Councils also commissioned 30% more home care hours from January to March 2023 (54.5

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This will be combined, in a new grant, with £162m in existing spending to support councils in paying providers a fair cost of care, and also distributed in line with the relative needs formula. 300m for adult social care to support hospital discharge. as of March, below over 80% of all job roles in the economy.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Whether a family needs support in their own home or during out-of-home care, KVC is driven to seek diverse perspectives, work inclusively, bridge gaps, and add capacity to meet needs.”. In late 2020, KVC Missouri received a new grant to provide services on behalf of the Missouri Department of Social Services.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Providers also highlighted the council’s investment in the care workforce, including by funding them to pay above the above the real living wage (currently £12 an hour) and cover holiday pay, sick pay and travel time, thereby boosting recruitment and retention.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

While authorities strove to protect adult social care from these cuts, their spending on the service was only marginally higher 2019-20 than 2010-11, after taking account of inflation. This led to many people with asymptomatic Covid being discharged into residential care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Funding shortfall However, this does not cover the extra costs facing authorities from the impact of the employer NICs rise on the providers that they commission, notably in adults’ services. The MSIF is designed to help councils increase fees to providers, boost workforce capacity and cut waiting times for assessments and services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. an hour in the national living wage (NLW) from April 2022. .”

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