Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

The Care Quality Commission has issued the first outstanding rating for a council since it resumed assessing local authority adult social services at the end of 2023. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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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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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability Mental Health 57

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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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Mental Health 51

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. What else has Labour pledged?

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Government Hospital Discharges Mental Health Youth Worker 66

Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As well as causing gridlock in the NHS, the CQC highlighted the rising levels of unmet need for social care, with Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) figures showing 540,000 were waiting for a care assessment, care package, direct payment or review as of April this year, up 37% in six months. BIA shortages.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 54

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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Rehabilitation Hospital Discharges Hospitals Recovery 52

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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