Category: Community Care- Adults
Over four in ten adult social care providers closed parts of their organisation or handed back contracts last year because of cost pressures, driven in particular by staffing shortages, a survey has found. Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, […]
By James Codling With a worrying frequency, I am hearing in training sessions, and in practice across the country, the following statements: “We require the person’s consent before we undertake a safeguarding adults enquiry.” “Have we assessed [insert name]’s capacity to consent to the safeguarding enquiry?” Neither of these are in line with the Care […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. During my assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), I was struck by how consistently ‘improving emotional resilience’ came up as a personal development goal. Social work is known for being a demanding profession, requiring a […]
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on working with adults who are deafblind. The full guide gives an awareness and understanding of the complexities of deafblindness, and the social care law and policy that relates to deafblind people. It also provides guidance on the areas to pay particular attention to […]
A strike-hit council is struggling to deliver an approved mental health professional service (AMHP), it had admitted. Swindon council said that recruitment problems were affecting its ability to consistently deliver an AMHP service and it was working to address the issue. Its admission came after trade union GMB said Swindon now had just one approved […]
The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25. The DHSC announced the funding yesterday, alongside […]
This article provides key points for practitioners from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on executive functioning and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The full guide is intended to help social workers and occupational therapists understand the relationship between the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and executive functioning, and looks at key case law. Inform Adults subscribers […]
Next year’s 10% hike in the national living wage (NLW) will trigger adult social care cuts without increased government funding for councils, a survey has found. Shire authorities said the NLW rise would cost them £6.3m each on average in 2024-25, totalling £230m across the sample polled by the County Councils Network (CCN) following last […]
By Beverley Tarka, president, ADASS When ADASS and carers’ organisations launched the Carers Challenge in October, our goal was to unearth the gold standard work social care teams and voluntary organisations are doing to support unpaid carers. The response has been great, with lots of stories about how organisations are working with carers to co-produce […]
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is a critical pieces of legislation, employed every day by social care practitioners working with people aged 16 and over. But with case law and practice contexts continuing to evolve, staying up to date with the MCA is vital to legal literacy in social work and occupational therapy. That is […]