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 government has granted almost one in five English councils ‘exceptional financial support’ (EFS) to help them balance their books in 2025-26. Twenty seven of the 153 authorities with social services have been granted EFS, up […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social workers would sit on three-person panels set up to review adults’ requests for assisted dying under a proposed amendment to the bill to legalise the practice. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, sponsor of the Terminally Ill […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Average pay for social workers in council adults’ services in England fell by 5.3% from 2016-24, official data shows. As of September 2024, the (mean) average salary for practitioners was £43,000, up 2% on the level […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The number of social workers employed by council adults’ services in England has reached a new record high, official figures show. Local authorities had 19,200 practitioners in post as of September 2024, up 700 (3.8%) on […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has launched an action plan to safeguard telecare users from the switching off of the UK’s analogue phone network. Its replacement by a fully digital network will mean that existing services connected to the […]
Hearing directly from people with lived experience of social care is one of the most powerful and effective ways to learn and reflect on social work practice. Author, motivational speaker and care leaver Jenny Molloy, in partnership with Community Care Inform, will be sharing her experience of childhood neglect, parental addiction and domestic abuse, in […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Adult social care professionals have reported that using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool saved them time and improved direct work, despite some concerns over accuracy. Research commissioned by Beam, the company behind the Magic Notes tool, […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has let six English councils with responsibility for social care increase council tax rates by more than national limits this year. Birmingham, Bradford, Newham, Somerset, Trafford and Windsor and Maidenhead will be able to […]
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) […]