Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

The money is on top of £500m already earmarked for ICBs and councils to clear hospital beds, part of which was allocated last month and which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said would be well spent on home care, in order to reduce delayed discharges. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

between the amount English commissioners paid domiciliary care providers and the fees required to pay staff the current NLW of £10.42. The finding was based on comparing data from 99% of councils and 52% of NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) against the association’s the minimum price for home care, which was £25.95

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Directors have urged the government to fund a £1,000 winter bonus for adult social care staff in England to stem a mounting workforce crisis. The government’s own estimates showing just short of 40,000 jobs being lost in the care home sector from its introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

The letter follows concerns from social care leaders about the government’s allocation of £200m to the NHS this winter to help reduce delays by block-booking care home placements for up to four weeks. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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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).

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

Over half have taken the “least acceptable” actions in response to the situation including prioritising life-sustaining care, being unable to undertake reviews of risk, relying on family members, carers or providers for these or leaving vulnerable people isolated for longer periods than usual.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Social care leaders have criticised the delay, with Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Sarah McClinton saying that it had left the sector entering a challenging winter with “no certainty, no plan and increasingly little time”. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Councils were already planning to make £1.4bn in adult social care savings next year before learning of the added pressures on the sector brought about by the government’s Budget. ” She called on the government to exempt home care providers from the NICs increase and fully fund the increase to the NLW.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter. “It will improve social care capacity, boost discharge rates and avoid unnecessary admissions, freeing up hospital beds and reducing waits for care,” said care minister Helen Whately. .

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This was leading to reductions in the number of home care hours providers could deliver and a drop in care home capacity, with operators holding beds empty because of a lack of workers to staff them. ‘Step change’ needed including improved pay. Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

ICHA pointed out the review had also omitted to reference the latest analysis of the unit costs of social care services by the Personal Social Services Research Unit, which showed average fees for council-run homes were 15% (£4,865 per week) higher than the average for the private sector and voluntary sectors (£4,153).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, this has not been set out explicitly by the Treasury, nor has any funding been announced to cover the impact of the increase on voluntary and private sector employers, including care providers, though the smallest businesses will be protected. These decisions risk sending many over the edge.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The issue is widely linked to low pay, with the median hourly wage for independent sector care staff being £9.50 Council fee rates – these have been a longstanding issue for care home and domiciliary care providers. as of March, below over 80% of all job roles in the economy.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

‘Red lights are flashing’ warns care boss, in advance of the government’s social care white paper Social care services across England are “rapidly deteriorating”, with waiting lists soaring and councils struggling with care home closures, social services chiefs have warned.

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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

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. increase in the national living wage (NLW) and inflation more broadly. .” This will rise from 28.53 this year to 32.14

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Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

The state of the adult care workforce in England The number of filled posts grew slightly, by 20,000 (1.2%), to 1,635,000, in 2022-23, following the first ever fall in post numbers in 2021-22. “We must as a matter of urgency develop a social care workforce plan that attracts people to make rewarding careers in social care.”

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2023

However, the King’s Fund pointed out that much of the increase from 2019-20 to 2021-22 had been in Covid-related funding, designed to help providers meet additional costs, rather than directly finance care for individuals. The increase in funding since 2015-16 was also driven in part by growth in the unit costs of 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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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.

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