Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. It is “completely unacceptable” that care workers are being targeted for their race or religion, or being prevented from delivering care due to racist attacks and violent disorder. That was the message from the Care Quality […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. People face a “massive postcode lottery” in access to adult social care according to official data, charities for older and disabled people and carers have warned. There were wide differences between and within regions in the […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social care practice leaders have offered their “expertise and support” to the new Labour government in a bid to shape policy on the sector. The offer has been made by a new grouping – the Social […]
Sector leaders have urged the government to “change course on social care” after a week in which it cancelled the cap on care costs and a planned increase to workforce training funding. In an open letter to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting, more than 30 leaders said the decisions had “raised alarm bells” […]
There is a £1bn shortfall in home care fees paid and the amount required by providers in England to pay staff the statutory minimum wage, meet other costs and make a “small” profit. That was among the findings of the Homecare Association’s latest report on how the fees paid by commissioners across the UK measured […]
For social care practitioners, learning from the expertise of those with lived experience of services is critical to good practice. That’s why people with experience of receiving social care will be at the forefront of the learning being delivered at Community Care Live 2024, which takes place in London from 8-9 October. Voices of lived […]
Scrapping the cap on care costs is “another example of social care being tossed aside”, according to the architect of the reforms. Economist Sir Andrew Dilnot told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the government’s decision meant that society had “failed another generation of families”. A commission led by Dilnot, which reported in 2011, drew […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social work opinion is split on whether the new Labour government will improve the lives of those using social care services. A Community Care poll with nearly 1,200 votes revealed that 41% of respondents lacked confidence […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The new Labour government has scrapped a planned increase in funding for adult social care training. It has culled the adult social care training and development fund announced by its Conservative predecessor earlier this year, care […]
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 planned cap on care costs to help tackle a black hole in the public finances it claimed was left by the Conservatives. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced today that the adult social […]