Category: Community Care- Adults
Access to NHS continuing healthcare is “unfair and inconsistent”, a study has reported. There are significant local and regional variations in eligibility for and spending on CHC that cannot be fully explained by differences in need or the cost of services, found the Nuffield Trust, in a report published last week. As a result, people […]
Season two of Learn on the go – a social work podcast from Community Care Inform – has launched with an episode that explores parental conflict. Jude Gordon, a project manager within the child poverty team at the North East Combined Authority, discusses how to identify parental conflict and differentiate it from domestic abuse, and […]
A “shameful” and “gut-wrenching” rise in racial disparities in the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 has prompted calls for changes to the government bill’s to reform the legislation. The AMHP Leads Network and the charity Mind both called for amendments to the Mental Health Bill to tackle racial inequalities in the use of […]
There has been increase in failings relating to adult social care practice identified by the sector watchdog over the past year, it has revealed. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) upheld 214 complaints that it investigated in relation to assessment and care planning in 2024-25, up from 193 in 2023-24, according to its […]
Seven in 10 community social care services have no or an ‘outdated’ Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of their performance, an analysis of inspection data has found. The Homecare Association said its report showed that people with complex needs were at risk from “unsafe, poor-quality care” and that good providers were being squeezed out of […]
The UK government is to intervene in an upcoming Supreme Court case that will reconsider the landmark Cheshire West judgment on deprivation of liberty. The secretary of state for health and social care (Wes Streeting) has been given permission to intervene, along with charities Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society. The case has been […]
Disability charities are bidding to defend the landmark Cheshire West judgment on deprivation of liberty in a Supreme Court case that will be heard next month. Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society have applied to intervene in the case brought by Northern Ireland’s top legal officer, who is aiming to amend Cheshire West. The […]
Two-thirds of councils need to improve on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments have found. The finding from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) came as it sounded the alarm over longstanding delays to the implementation of reforms to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the […]
Care provider fees have risen by about 5% this year, but leaders warn the increases are being outstripped by wage and tax hikes and other cost pressures. Provisional figures on the average fees paid by councils to external providers in 2025-26, released by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last week. showed increases […]
By Cathal Ryan In March 2025, the Femicide Census published its 2000 Women Report; particularly shocking was the fact that almost one in 10 of all women killed by men in the UK over the past 15 years were mothers killed by their sons. This statistic challenges common assumptions regarding filial love; unfortunately, abuse by […]