Category: Community Care- Adults
Many thousands of care workers in England will get a 10% pay rise next April after the government decided to increase its national living wage (NLW) from £10.42 to £11.44 an hour. The NLW will also be applied to staff aged 21 and 22, raising their wage floor from the national minimum wage (NMW), which […]
Specialist social workers are helping improve outcomes for homeless people but their role remains rare, often isolated and usually temporarily funded. That was the message from a study launched this week that called for greater recognition and secure funding of the role. The publication of the paper, by the National Institute for Health Research Policy […]
The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. In a damning report published last week, psychiatrist and learning disability expert Baroness Sheila Hollins said there was “no therapeutic benefit” to the long-term segregation of people detained […]
Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year. […]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated most councils as good in pilot assessments for its new system of appraising the quality of local authority adults’ social care. Four of the five authorities tested – Birmingham, Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and Suffolk – received a good rating, the second highest grade below outstanding, following assessments carried […]
There are “significant risks” around the government’s capacity to deliver its already delayed plan to introduce a cap on care costs by October 2025, the public spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) said work needed to start soon, backed by more resource, to deliver the cap and a more generous means-test for […]
Adult social care has its fourth cabinet minister in two years following Rishi Sunak’s major government reshuffle. Victoria Atkins has replaced Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary, after the latter spent one year in post in his second stint in the job. Since 2021, the post has also been occupied by Sajid Javid […]
The Labour Party has pledged to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 if elected to power at the next general election. Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting told the House of Commons today that the party would introduce a bill to overhaul the act as part of its first legislative programme after polling […]
This article is published as part of Community Care’s Choose Social Work Campaign, to support students and newly-qualified social workers with areas of practice they might find challenging. It presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide to a strengths-based approach to difficult conversations. The full guide considers situations where challenging conversations might arise […]
This article is published as part of Community Care’s Choose Social Work Campaign, to support students and newly-qualified social workers with areas of practice they might find challenging. It presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide to a strengths-based approach to difficult conversations. The full guide considers situations where challenging conversations might arise […]