Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. ADASS May 2022 survey: key findings.

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Community Care

APRIL 27, 2022

It also includes provisions to reintroduce performance assessments of council adults’ social services and remove the system by which councils can be fined for delayed discharges from hospital they are deemed responsible for. The Health and Care Bill will now become law, having been agreed by both Houses of Parliament.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. “Most people want to be discharged from hospital back home. ” ‘Disappointing’ narrative on social care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

hospitals calls for screening a woman’s urine for drugs before she gives birth, despite the test itself being notoriously unreliable and easily manipulated by other substances. The results of these tests are used as grounds for social service investigations that can lead to newborns being unjustly taken from parents.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Section 117 of the MHA is a duty to provide aftercare services to people who have been detained under sections 3, 37, 45A, 47 or 48 of the MHA and who then cease to be detained and leave hospital. A local social services authority can also request a review of a determination by the secretary of state.

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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

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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Social Work Blog

MAY 29, 2024

OHS has a community veterinary hospital and an animal shelter and is the largest facility of its kind in the state. But she also resolves a host of other pet-related problems for the humane society’s clients: landlord disputes; referrals to community social services; and the like.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour’s position on the reform is unclear. .

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The regulator found councils lacked sufficient assessors to deal with the volume of cases they received from care homes and hospitals, but also identified a “wide variation” in how authorities managed applications and in backlog levels.

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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

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

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

MARCH 31, 2023

Dealing with shortages of social workers by hiring social work assistants or trainees – for example, those undertaking apprenticeships – who may be easier to recruit. Digital technology can contribute to this, as can people other than social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

And in Seattle, Fox 13 reports , a judge ruled that a rush to judgment by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital was "based on conscious and unconscious bias towards people from minority communities. Particularly black and brown communities." It wasn’t the first time this doctor had traumatized a family with a misdiagnosis.

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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

As such, no matter their specialty, clinicians need to know how to identify when a client is experiencing an illness, mental health condition, or injury, and who to recommend their client to if they are unable to provide services. In this way, organizations can ensure their clients’ holistic healthcare needs are being met.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

.” She added that, “without proper change we will not be able to meet the growing demand for care, take pressure off the NHS and reduce costs for the health and social care system.”

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. This sets out that the section 117 duty is triggered when a person ceases to be detained and leaves hospital.

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Community Care

JULY 16, 2024

Despite receiving what the previous government described as the “biggest funding increase in history” for 2023-25, councils overspent their adult care budgets by £586m (2.9%) in 2023-24, found the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring survey.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 15, 2023

As a private clinician, and Manager of the Social Work Department at the Valley Hospital, collectively we view our purpose as making a difference, making connections, making meaning and making a life- all of which entails breaking barriers on a daily basis. We must adapt to change manage stress and innovate.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

However, this falls far short of the estimated £1.8bn in extra costs facing councils , chiefly driven by rises in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) and the national living wage(NLW), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There were 5,666 full-time equivalent (FTE) practitioners working for Scottish authorities as of the end of 2021, a rise of 200 (3.7%) on the previous year, according to the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) annual workforce data report published this week.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September. Other data shows the shortages leading to mounting unmet need.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care. This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.”

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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. However, the association warned that the increases in care being delivered were not keeping pace with rising levels of need.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Funding is not keeping up with people’s needs, so fewer can access care and people who can’t afford to pay for care themselves are more likely to be going without the support they need.

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Community Care

JUNE 10, 2024

New DoLS prioritisation tool Against this backdrop, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has adopted a new tool to help councils prioritise DoLS applications that was developed by West Midlands ADASS. In the original, tool acute and psychiatric hospitals were automatically given high priority.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In return for £400m in additional cash for 2023-24, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) expects councils to take action in relation to any one of reducing waiting times, addressing workforce shortages, tackling delayed discharges from hospital or improving fee rates for providers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The DHSC had determined Worcestershire to be responsible for the aftercare of a woman, JG, it had placed in a care home in Swindon, after she was then subsequently detained in hospital from there, and discharged again for aftercare. Learn about the government’s new approach. A date has not been set for the hearing.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

300m for adult social care to support hospital discharge. Also, authorities will be able to raise council tax by 3% (up from 2%) and the adult social care council tax precept by 2% (up from 1%), without a referendum of citizens. .” as of March, below over 80% of all job roles in the economy.

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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

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. And the number of people awaiting discharge from hospital has remained stubbornly around the 13,000 mark, shows NHS England data.

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