Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social care services will receive an extra £600m at least in government grant funding next year, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in today’s Budget. The package was part of a settlement for local authorities in England that […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Many thousands of care workers will get a 6.7% pay rise next April after the government announced the 2025 increase in the national living wage (NLW). The wage floor for UK workers aged 21 and over […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. “Chronic” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlogs are leaving many people without the human rights protections the system was designed to provide, the Care Quality Commission has warned. People will continue to be failed without “urgent […]
This article provides tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on giving written and oral evidence to the Court of Protection. Based on first-hand experience, it provides information and tips to enable practitioners to prepare for their own courtroom experience and includes guidance for both face-to-face and remote hearings. The guide is written by social […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The planned fair pay agreement for adult social care is likely to increase costs to councils, as well as those funding their own care, the government has said. Providers have limited scope to absorb the expected […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social care services are likely to be badly affected by cuts across most English councils next year, a Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Almost four in five authorities (79%) said services for disabled or older […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. “We walked out for 81 days and it made no difference. They aren’t listening to us. It’s as dangerous a service as it was when the dispute started.” This is Sophie, a mental health social worker […]
Mental capacity assessments are not taking place when expected, according to the second national analysis of safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) in England published earlier this year. One reason cited by reviews was the failure to recognise the role of executive function in decision making. “An individual’s articulate, verbal presentation may give no cause to question […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Labour’s first months in office have not landed well among social workers, a Community Care poll has found. Since taking power in July, the party has cancelled a planned cap on care costs and ditched the […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government will commission an independent review of overpayments of carer’s allowance, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said today. The review will be led by disability rights campaigner Liz Sayce and will examine how overpayments […]