Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% in May, while the number of posts filled in services fell to 3.7% Mounting staff shortages.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Barriers to asset-based approaches Despite the benefits for people like Joanna, many local areas find it difficult to implement asset-based approaches within their social care systems. Project workers bring together local social workers, pharmacists and general practitioners in monthly locality hubs.

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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. Beyond that, she feels a debt of gratitude to an authority she says has invested significantly in her career since she joined as a residential social worker three decades ago. “I

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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. Rising numbers of social worker vacancies in councils are likely to be among the reasons for this.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

This involved designing a service that felt like a hotel but was secure and through which people could access supportive in-reach services. Hertfordshire (good, 78) Hertfordshire was awarded a score of 3 for eight of the nine quality statements and 4 – the highest level – for the other, partnerships and communities.

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