Category: Community Care- Adults
The government will implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), it announced today. It will consult on introducing the LPS, alongside a much updated Mental Capacity Act 2005 code of practice, in the first half of next year, seven years after legislation to enact the new system was […]
Care providers are among almost 500 employers who have been fined a total of £10.2m for failing to pay staff the national minimum wage (NMW) or national living wage (NLW), the government announced today. The enforcement has resulted in £6m being given to staff who were underpaid by their employers. The government has published the […]
Councils’ social care budgets in England are already under pressure this year, an analysis of government data has found. The Local Government Association (LGA) said that demand and cost increases were outstripping resource again, on the back of three years of significant overspends on both adults’ and children’s services. It issued the warning in a […]
The UK government has urged the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark Cheshire West judgment on deprivation of liberty in a case that will be heard next week. In an intervention in the case, which will be heard from 20-22 October, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the 2014 judgment was “clearly […]
The share of care workers in England with a basic qualification has hit a new low, following government cuts to planned training funding, the annual stocktake of the workforce has revealed. The proportion of care and support workers with a level 2 qualification (equivalent to a good GCSE) in 2024-25 fell to 38%, down from […]
By Simon Bottery, senior fellow, The King’s Fund A key benefit of a wide-ranging review like Baroness Casey’s Independent Commission into Adult Social Care is that it can look at the big issues in social care and evaluate radical proposals to see whether they have merit. High on the Casey Commission’s list should be to […]
Just 3% of home care providers offer staff more than the statutory minimum in sick pay, a survey on the sector’s workforce has found. The Homecare Association reported that 97% of organisations responding to its 2025 workforce survey paid staff statutory sick pay (SSP) if they had to take leave for sickness. Under this, employers […]
Council and NHS adult social care staff in England, including social workers, may be excluded from the government’s planned fair pay agreements for the sector, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said. The DHSC is considering whether the planned agreements should be focused just on remainder of the workforce – who make […]
With Social Work England’s registration renewal period now well underway, all social workers need to ensure they submit two pieces of continuing professional development (CPD)* to meet the regulator’s requirements by 30 November 2025. To help you achieve this, Community Care Inform has launched its Habit of Learning Autumn Challenge, to provide subscribing practitioners with […]
The government’s pledge of £500m to deliver the first fair pay agreement for adult social care staff in England “barely scratches the surface” of what is needed, providers have warned. The money will be allocated to councils in 2028-29 to finance the first agreement reached by the new Adult Social Care Negotiating Body, which – […]