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 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 […]
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 […]