Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessors’ lack of social work experience was among criticisms of the regulator’s approach to assessing English local authorities shared with a damning review of the regulator. In the final report of her […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. A cut in the number of personal assistants (PAs) in the adult social care workforce is a “significant concern”, a sector body has said. The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) issued the warning after Skills […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government will create a body to set pay and conditions for adult social care staff in England should its Employment Rights Bill become law. The bill, published yesterday, would allow the government to make regulations […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The number of overseas recruits to the social care sector has plummeted as a report highlights the sector’s increasing reliance on international staff. From April to June this year, an estimated 8,000 international recruits joined the […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. A £22.6m government payment for innovative adult social care projects in England is almost two months overdue and is “in danger of disappearing”, a carers’ charity has warned. The second tranche of the accelerating reform fund […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Half of English councils were given government funding to recruit social work apprentices to work in adults’ services this year, the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed (DHSC). The DHSC allocated £7.7m out of […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. A 10% drop in the police’s use of powers to remove people to a place of safety has been linked to a policy restricting forces’ response to mental health incidents. There were 31,213 detentions under section […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The social care watchdog is increasingly finding fault with council decision making in relation to social care assessments and care planning. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) upheld 80% of complaints it investigated relating […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has scrapped the second round of the adult social work apprenticeship fund. The £4m payment would have enabled English councils to recruit about 130 additional social work apprentices to work in adult social care […]
A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025, a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position. McClinton, who was ADASS president from 2022-23, will work alongside Robert […]