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 Mary Baginsky Just a quarter of people with learning disabilities (26%) are on their GP surgery’s learning disability register, according to research published this year by the Nuffield Trust. This indicates the majority are not […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. By Lorraine Currie The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) cases handled by English councils hit another record high in 2022-23. Though councils completed a record 289,150 applications, the backlog grew by 2%, to 126,000, […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Mounting social care costs will leave English councils facing a £6.2bn financial black hole over the next two years, the Local Government Association has warned political parties ahead of the general election. The LGA calculated that […]
Staying up to speed with the case law and its implications for practice can be a huge challenge for busy social workers. That is why Community Care has gathered together some of the leading legal experts on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, to deliver a masterclass in London next month, designed to equip practitioners to […]
Rishi Sunak has called a general election for 4 July. The prime minister made the announcement in a statement in Downing Street today, firing the starting gun on a six-week campaign. The news comes with the Labour Party roughly 20 percentage points ahead in the polls (source: BBC), strongly suggesting they will end 14 years […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The Care Quality Commission has awarded good ratings to the first three councils it assessed under its new adults’ services performance regime. Hertfordshire, Hounslow and West Berkshire all gained the second top rating – behind outstanding […]
This article comprises tips taken from a Community Care Inform guide about working with Gypsy and Traveller communities. The full guide is directed primarily at children’s services practitioners but many of the key messages and principles are relevant to adults’ social workers too. The guide is written and updated by Friends, Families and Travellers, a […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The Care Act 2014 remains the right legislation for social care sector and has led to progress, but its aims have not been realised because of a lack of funding. That was the verdict of sector […]
Revisions to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 code of practice are still under discussion two years after proposed changes were consulted upon. That was the message from care minister Helen Whately in response to a parliamentary question from shadow justice minister Alex Cunningham earlier this month. Cunningham had asked if a revised code would be […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has launched a £16m fund to tackle the exploitation of overseas adult social care staff. The resource is an extension of the international recruitment fund for the adult social care sector, issued last year […]