Category: Community Care- Adults
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 Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found.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 […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Half of Rape Crisis centres are expecting to make cuts to services, despite growing demand from children’s social care. That was among the findings of a Rape Crisis England & Wales (RCEW) survey carried out from […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) referrals hit a new high in 2023-24 but practitioners managed to cut backlogs, official figures have shown. Care homes and hospitals made 332,455 applications to deprive a person […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social workers are divided on whether they would pay more tax to boost spending on services including social care, a Community Care poll has found. This follows the government’s decision to scrap the planned cap on […]
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on protecting adults from scams. The full guide is designed to help social workers support people who are at risk of, or experiencing, scams, working in partnership with local trading standards colleagues. It explains the different types of scams, the factors that put people […]
A project to help evidence the value of approved mental health professionals’ (AMHPs) role has started work. Local government leaders have commissioned a team of practitioners to explore the feasibility of developing a national dataset for the role, encompassing the wide range of work that AMHPs do. Such a dataset has long been sought by […]