Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

The findings come from a snaphot survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) released today, in the context of what the association described as a “national emergency” Relaxing Care Act duties mooted.

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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. This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added.

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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. Related articles.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At the same time, 94% of directors reported that they did not have sufficient care staff in their areas to deliver services this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey carried out in October and November. Pay care staff ‘much more than national living wage’ – .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

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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% to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%

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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, 2022

300m for adult social care to support hospital discharge. This will need to be pooled, within the Better Care Fund, with a further £300m to support discharge, likely channelled through the NHS. This is in part due to a lack of adult social care, though also reflects inadequate capacity in the NHS.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. At the same time, much of the resource it has provided is directed towards clearing hospital beds, rather than the vision of social care as a vehicle for better lives.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The government’s £500m injection of cash into adult social care this winter is a mere “sticking plaster” for the sector’s underlying problems, leaders have warned. However, they said it was insufficient to tackle staff shortages, unmet needs for care and the impact of the cost of living crisis on the sector.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Data showed that 86% of people who received a short-term service in the borough did not require ongoing support, while 84% of older people were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital to a reablement service, exceeding the England average in both cases.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 4, 2023

Sarah McClinton , Les Bright and Jeremy Seymour on the pressures facing the care home sector Heads of adult social services share concern at the poor quality of some care and support for people living with dementia ( Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety, 28 December ).

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. “We will enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a fair pay agreement in adult social care.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A £475m rise in the market sustainability and fair cost of care fund, designed to help councils increase fees to adult social care providers, cut waiting lists for services and tackle recruitment and retention issues. 307m through a new adult social care discharge fund, designed to help speed up hospital discharges.

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