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Category: Community Care- Adults

  • Care home nursing fee gets 7.4% boost

    The fee paid to care homes to fund nursing costs will rise by 7.4% from April 2024, the government announced today. The standard weekly NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) rate will rise from £219.71 to £235.88, while the higher rate will increase from £302.25 to £324.50, said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The […]

  • Problem gambling: how to recognise the warning signs

    This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on problem gambling and social work. The full guide provides an awareness and understanding of the harms and risk factors of problem gambling and the social work role in supporting people who are affected. It also looks at screening tools and discusses some of […]

  • One in nine councils granted emergency support to balance books

    One in nine councils with social services responsibilities are getting emergency government help to enable them to balance their books. Ministers have agreed in principle almost £2bn in financial support overall for the 17 local authorities, with by far the biggest share going to Birmingham (£1.255.1bn), revealed the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities […]

  • How to communicate with people who are deafblind

    This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on working with adults who are deafblind. The full guide gives an awareness and understanding of the complexities of deafblindness, and the social care law and policy that relates to deafblind people. It also provides guidance on the areas to pay particular attention to […]

  • Four in ten adult care providers reduced services last year due to cost pressures

    Over four in ten adult social care providers closed parts of their organisation or handed back contracts last year because of cost pressures, driven in particular by staffing shortages, a survey has found. Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, […]