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Care Act duties ‘permanently undermined’ by widespread breaches during Covid, argues study

Community Care

In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support. But while councils may have exposed themselves to legal challenge, no such litigation took place – to the authors’ knowledge – besides adverse decisions from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

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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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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can listen to her full interview here.

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The Impact of Student Loan Debt on Subjective Well-Being: Examining the Role of Economic and Non-Economic Factors

inSocialWork

She has collaborated on community-led research and evaluation projects examining programming for justice-involved youth, service trajectories of children in long-term out-of-home care, and financial justice for vulnerable families. Interviewer: Michael Lynch, LMSW. Show Notes. Episode Transcript Download.

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Out-of-home placement may be necessary when less restrictive services have not adequately addressed an adopted child’s needs.

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Digital Competency Evaluations Can Ease Your Administrative Burden

Relias

Evaluating staff competencies also benefits your business throughout the employee life cycle: Recruitment — to ensure you’re choosing qualified candidates during the interview process. Onboarding — to gauge competency levels of new hires and reduce unnecessary training that keeps them from providing care sooner.

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Social Work Recap: soaring vacancies, social care users left in debt and Shamima Begum

Community Care

Directors interviewed for the study told the college, “you are seen as a risk if you are not from a social care background”. You can learn more about what it takes to become a DCS in our article about the Staff College’s report.