Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The social care means-testing thresholds are being frozen for a 15th consecutive year, dragging more people into having to self-fund their care. The upper and lower capital limits governing access to care in England in 2025-26 […]
We are back with another live episode of the Social Work Community Podcast – this time from Wiltshire adult social care. The session took place at Community Care Live 2024. In this episode you will hear from Abbie-Jo Lawrence, who not only works for local disabled people’s organisation Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living (Wiltshire CIL) […]
By Michael Simms What should your CV look like when applying for a social care role in adults’ services? There are plenty of guides from recruiters, HR professionals and the like, but really, there are no hard and fast rules. That said, there are some basics that you should cover off to make sure you […]
This article provides advice and tips from Community Care Inform’s guide for practice educators on reflection. Written by Siobhan Maclean, the in-depth guide covers the ‘What? Why? How?’ framework and how it can be used in social work and practice education. It looks at how to use different models of reflection with students, to improve […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social workers could form part of neighbourhood-based multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) providing support for people with complex health and social care needs. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social care leaders have sounded the alarm over a planned 120% hike in the fees they must pay to sponsor overseas staff to work for them on skilled worker visas. The government has tabled legislation to […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The Scottish Government has ditched plans to restructure adult social care in the country into a ‘national care service’ (NCS). Social care minister Maree Todd said that she was scrapping the flagship Scottish National Party (SNP) […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Anyone who has read Hope Daniels’ first book, The Sunday Times bestseller Hackney Child, will know that when she was nine, she walked into Stoke Newington police station with her two younger brothers and asked to […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Staff vacancy numbers in adult social care services fell last year, early data suggests. As of December 2024, 7% of roles in independent sector adult social care providers in England lay vacant, down from 7.6% in […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Council fee rises for social care providers have lagged behind increases in the national living wage (NLW) for each of the past three years, providers have reported. The research, carried out before the government’s autumn 2024 […]