Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” She added that the association’s research had found that there was a £1.08bn deficit between commissioner fees in England and the amount home care providers needed to pay the existing NLW of £11.44, cover costs and turn a 5% profit. These decisions risk sending many over the edge.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, across almost all services, including day centres, residential respite, group activities, sitting services and social work, most of these respondents said they were now getting less or no support. In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support.

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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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Hospitals Government Home Care Social Worker 58

Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. 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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The figures showed that, as of September 2022, the numbers of vacancies and posts held by agency staff had reached record levels, average caseloads had risen and the number of social workers in post had fallen for the first time since 2017.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

There is also an upward trend in sickness absence , with the average number of days lost to sickness per worker in the previous 12 months rising to 9.7 Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% and care workers 12.2%. in February and 7.6% in May 2021.

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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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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Home Care Social Worker 58

Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

A safeguarding investigation that failed to uncover the harmful care a woman received at a care home “relied heavily” on the provider’s own internal probe into the concerns. “It said the social worker did not thoroughly cross-check the documentation.” Inappropriate placement.

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Social Worker Government Anxiety Home Care 56

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

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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Disability Interviewing Social Worker Advocacy 48

Social Work Haven

APRIL 26, 2023

The Assessor (anyone) can carry out a capacity assessment for example, a friend, family members, a care worker, an occupational therapist, a nurse, a doctor or a social worker What are the key elements of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 The key element is the fact that the MCA is a decision support tool.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Communication Interventional Disorder 52

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Data commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), forming found ethnic minority staff in the independent care sector were likelier than white peers to be on zero-hours contracts. More on racial inequalties in social care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

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Adoption Disability Government Home Care 48

Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rising numbers of social worker vacancies in councils are likely to be among the reasons for this. Council fee rates – these have been a longstanding issue for care home and domiciliary care providers. next April, up 12% on the current level, mainly due to the planned rise in the national living wage.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Home Care 54

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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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Angela Sneddon Ongoing manager Angela Sneddon has been a social worker with Morgan County DHS for over 25 years. During her time with the county, Angela has worked with kids in out-of-home care as an ongoing caseworker and as an on-call caseworker.

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Child Welfare Welfare Human Services Foster Care 89

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 265

CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I have seen children in my care who were not expected to live or were not expected to improve, but under my care, they have improved more than anyone thought they would,” said Vera. Vera said she can also depend on the social workers who come to her home to help her with things, even if it is just folding a basket of laundry.

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Foster Care Adoption Social Worker Home Care 98