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Social work assistants in Scotland to be regulated under SSSC proposal

Community Care

The SSSC currently regulates about 176,500 of the approximately 213,000 people working in the sector in Scotland, including social workers, social work students, children’s and adults’ residential care staff, day care workers in children’s services and adult home care workers.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide list to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. Medicare officials have identified 14 target areas as “risky” for improper payment, Cooley said, including three new ones in 2021.

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Law to bolster child protection announced in Labour’s first King’s Speech

Community Care

The government has also not confirmed how much of its predecessor’s Stable Homes, Built on Love agenda to reform children’s social care by, among other things, investing more in family support and kinship care to reduce the need for statutory interventions.

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The social worker advocating for people with learning disabilities

Community Care

” Anybody can just fill out a form and the outcome from that is day care, respite, home care or residential care. It doesn’t have to be a lifetime of day care or home care or peers following them around all the time. It’s one of the easiest things to do in social work.

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CQC delivers initial verdict on council adults’ services under new assurance system

Community Care

Gaps in care for people with more complex needs Authorities reported gaps in care for people needing specialist dementia care, autistic people, those with learning disabilities and people with mental health needs. However, overall, the CQC said authorities’ plans were short-term.

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How to Write a Capacity Assessment | Best Tips or a Pain in the Neck

Social Work Haven

For example, I ensure the person has all the relevant information to make the decision for example: financial advocacy, support services within the community, medical condition/prognosis; effects of medication; activities of daily living assessments,; details of care home; risks in returning home; care options, etc.

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Broken care system is putting our loved ones at risk | Letters

The Guardian

However, even in homes caring for seriously ill people, it is highly likely that there may be only one qualified member of staff on shift, and other staff only have basic training in manual handling, fire safety and so forth. Dementia needs serious medical intervention and care.