Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) have voiced concerns about the impact on their safety of a national police policy of not attending most mental health incidents. In some areas, AMHPs are attending mental health callouts in […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Dedicated funding for adult social care in England will rise by just over £1bn next year, according to government plans. However, this falls far short of the estimated £1.8bn in extra costs facing councils, chiefly driven […]
Social care practitioners can get up to speed with the law around adult safeguarding at Community Care’s next masterclass. Expert speakers will cover issues including the legal framework around adult safeguarding, its intersection with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA), the inherent jurisdiction and how to handle cases involving self-neglect or hoarding. Alongside this, delegates […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Legislation to permit assisted dying has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle after MPs voted in favour of it today. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons […]
Most social workers support the legalisation of assisted dying, a Community Care poll has found. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which will be voted on in the House of Commons this week, would enable adults to receive assistance to end their lives. The government has confirmed it will “remain neutral” on the bill, […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Councils will receive £22.6m in delayed adult social care innovation funding next week, the government has confirmed. It confirmed today that the second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) would be paid out, following concerns […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Specialist social workers should be involved in safeguarding people going through an assisted death should legislation due to be debated this week by MPs become law. That was the message from the Association of Palliative Care […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social care must be protected from the “catastrophic” impact of increases in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said today. ADASS revealed that, by its calculations, local authorities […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Providers say they will have to cut jobs and reduce the amount of care they deliver because of the increased costs imposed by the Budget, a survey has found. Almost two-thirds (64%) of organisations said they […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Integrating local authority social workers within NHS mental health trusts can help reduce the number of “harmful” out of area hospital placements (OAPs), a report has found. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) said that […]