Category: Community Care- Adults
[div class=”127″] The government has cut £115m from planned funding for adult social care training and development this year. As a result, far fewer care staff will be able to gain baseline qualifications in social care and no funding will be ploughed into continuing professional development (CPD) for regulated professionals, such as nurses, working in […]
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour. Written by Kate Butterby, a post-doctoral research associate at Durham University, the full guide is designed to help social workers support people who may be experiencing coercive and controlling behaviours. It outlines some of the ways […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Councils are losing ground to the NHS in the competition for social workers because of their different pay setting arrangements, the Local Government Association has warned. NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% rise […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The “dire state of social care” is among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report designed to provide a blueprint for a 10-year plan for […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has no plans to scrap single-word judgments of local authority adults’ services, despite the decision to ditch the approach for children’s social care. The Local Government Association today urged ministers to end overall ratings […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. By Ray Jones This article on social work in the 2000s is the fourth in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Each part looks back at key events from the […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. It is not the job of pre-qualifying social work courses to train social workers in specialist areas of practice, academic leaders have said. The Joint Universities Social Work Association (JUSWA) issued the statement in response to […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. Almost a quarter of home care, extra care, shared […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Sara Galvin’s tenacity in supporting and advocating for vulnerable people is admirable. It is an ethos she has put into practice in running Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust’s (CWPT) mental health homeless pathway service, helping […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Councils boosted social care spending by £2.3bn (6.6%) in real-terms last year, show official figures. The increase – double that of the previous year (£1.1bn) – came on the back of a significant boost in government […]