Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social work opinion is divided on how effective case reviews are in improving safeguarding practice, a Community Care poll has found. In late March, the local child safeguarding practice review into the murder of 10-month-old Finley Boden […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government plans to publish data on every council’s waiting times for adult social care assessments and services, it has revealed. The DHSC announced the plans in guidance on councils’ use of its ring-fenced market sustainability […]
The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. However, Melanie Williams said she was not expecting either major party to implement […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Increasing qualifications levels for the adult social care workforce – linked to higher pay – is among the ideas under consideration by the group developing a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce. Other potential […]
By Upasana Rajagopalan Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Denise Monks’s passion for social justice is evident not only in her work now as a professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers, but also her beginnings in the sector. While […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. Its green paper on reforming personal independence payment (PIP) floats […]
The government has readvertised the chief social worker for adults position at a higher salary, six months after it started recruiting for a successor to Lyn Romeo. The Department for Health and Social Care initially went out to recruit for the role in October 2023, offering external candidates £100,000 for taking up the position, with […]
Labour is still committed to implementing the cap on care costs and related reforms to adult social care charging, the shadow care minister said yesterday. Andrew Gwynne told the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring seminar that, should the party win the forthcoming election, it would “seek to introduce” the changes […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Free Loaves on Fridays, a new anthology containing letters, stories and poems by 100 care experienced children and adults, was launched last week. The book, edited by Rebekah Pierre, professional officer at the British Association of […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. By Robin Miller and Sarah McLaughlin, IMPACT There are many potential benefits of asset-based approaches, in which professionals start with what matters to the person and their family, take time to build a trusting relationship and […]