Category: Community Care- Adults
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 […]
[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 […]